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What began in 1955 at the Fridericianum, originally alongside the Federal Garden Exhibition, has since evolved into one of the world’s most significant series of exhibitions for contemporary art worldwide. On July 15, 1955, the first documenta, founded by Arnold Bode, was opened in Kassel. A total of 15 editions of documenta have taken place since then. documenta 16 is currently in preparation and will be inaugurated in 2027 in Kassel.

René Magritte’s La reconnaissance infinie is the top lot of the season, realising 10.3M. Michael Andrews led the 20/21 London Evening Sale setting a new record for the artist. 94% Sold by Lot | 97% Sold by Value | 43% of lots sold above the high estimate.

The Rijksmuseum is displaying a recently acquired still life by Maria van Oosterwijck in the Gallery of Honour from today.

Items seized in New York include pottery, jade, bronze and Tibetan Buddhist art, some dating back thousands of years.

The Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Government of Nepal, has initiated the return of a significant sculpture—Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda—to its place of origin in Nepal.

The Worcester Art Museum (WAM) announced that it has entered into a long-term loan agreement with the Italian Ministry of Culture as part of the Museum’s voluntary return of two objects from its collection.

As part of a PhD thesis, an innovative technological investigation conducted by the Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with the Sforza Castle and with the technical support of Codevintec, has revealed the presence of numerous underground passages under the Sforza Castle, in correspondence with what was the Garland, some of which could be linked to secret passages of a military nature, also described in drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.

Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Netherlands, and the Kremer family have announced that the Kremer Collection will potentially be housed on long-term loan at the museum.

A painting stolen in 1974 from the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland, has been found in a museum in Gouda, Netherlands. Museum Gouda and art detective Arthur Brand confirmed the discovery as reported by De Telegraaf.

A small wooden box which may have been a holiday souvenir either brought back by Rudyard Kipling, or given to him as a gift by his daughter, has turned out to be a very rare handmade South American casket.

Tate Modern celebrates the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery - one of the most fearless and original artists of the 20th century.

In December 2024, the G.A.S. Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, announced the call for the third edition of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award. This year, the award offered two fully-funded six-week residencies at G.A.S. Lagos for outstanding mid-career professionals based in Africa: one for a mid-career visual fine artist and one for a mid-career curator.

Catherine Nichols is an internationally acclaimed arts and literary scholar, curator and writer, whose work spans contemporary art, cultural history, and interdisciplinary research.

More than 100 years after the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a major new fresco sheds light on the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world. In a large banquet hall excavated in recent weeks in the central area of Pompeii, in insula 10 of Regio IX, an almost life-size frieze, or “megalography” (from the Greek for “large painting”-a cycle of large-figure paintings), has emerged, circling around three sides of the room; the fourth was open to the garden.

The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, today announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson will open in fall 2025.

The fourth edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) will be curated by Allison Glenn and presented from September to December 2026.

The Flemish government has appointed Belgian firm Bovenbouw Architectuur and Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein to design the ambitious new building for the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA).

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of 11 antiquities collectively valued at nearly $1 million to Greece.

On Friday, February 28, more than 300 naturists from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg will gather at the Boverie Museum in Liège, Belgium, for a unique nude visit to the exhibition Paul Delvaux and His Universe. This will be the largest naturist museum night ever held in the Low Countries.

An unusual art restitution case is currently being heard in New York criminal court. The heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer and Holocaust victim, are seeking the return of Egon Schiele's watercolor and graphite piece Russian Prisoner of War (1916) from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC).