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Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced on Wednesday that President Al-Sisi has approved 1 November as the official date for the complete opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM).

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced the recent repatriation of antiquities to Italy.

France’s Interior Minister on Wednesday imposed a harsh penalty on a man who had been caught on camera lighting a cigarette at a war memorial in Paris.

The Kimbell Art Museum acquired of Still Life with Melon, Watermelon, and Other Fruits, painted c. 1610–20 by the Italian artist known as “Pensionante del Saraceni,” the name historians have given to an as-yet-unidentified artist associated with a small group of paintings created in Rome around 1610–20.

Haus Konstruktiv and Zurich Insurance Company Ltd have awarded the annual Zurich Art Prize to Rosa Barba. She will receive CHF 100,000 to produce a solo exhibition as well as a cash prize of CHF 30,000. 

A 2,000-year-old settlement was discovered in the Kharga Oasis in Egypt, a site first inhabited in the 3rd century BC and reused during the early Coptic period between the 3rd and 7th centuries AD.

On July 3, 2025, the Italian Carabinieri unit to protect the cultural heritage in Rome investigated an Italian citizen who sold forgeries for years.

"The mermaid has completely normal proportions in relation to her size, of course the breasts are big on a big woman," Peter Bech the man behind the statue says.

The National Park Service will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was toppled and vandalized during riots in June 2020. 

The Guardian reports that archaeologists excavating at the ancient Roman settlement of Castulo in southern Spain have identified the traces of a building they believe may have once been a synagogue.

The Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity shared the plans for a world-class museum that will bring innovative design programming and immersive art experiences to the public. 

This September, Sotheby’s will lift the veil on the extraordinary personal collection of legendary patron and aesthete Pauline Karpidas, showcasing the masterpieces of Surrealist art and furniture design that adorned her one-of-a-kind home in London.

Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial announced that the 17th edition of the biennial will be held in the historic city of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2028. 

France’s government on Wednesday discussed a bill designed to speed up the return of artworks looted during the colonial era to their countries of origin, officials said.

The Yale University Art Gallery acquired an exceptional example of late Gothic sculpture, a Virgin and Child Enthroned by Tilman Riemenschneider (ca. 1460–1531).

Sculpture garden Clingenbosch unveiled the monumental bronze sculpture I followed you to the end (2024) by Tracey Emin.

Every week, ArtDependence spotlights extraordinary creatives whose current works invite collectors, new and seasoned alike, into vivid new dialogues.

For 150 years, Presidents, Administrations, and White House Staff have longed for a large event space on the White House complex that can hold substantially more guests than currently allowed. President Donald J. Trump has expressed his commitment to solving this problem on behalf of future Administrations and the American people.

A tourist is being shown to lift an ancient marble at the archaeological site of Portara – the Temple of Apollo- on the island of Naxos.