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Greece has returned a total of 1,055 ancient coins which were illegally excavated and smuggled out of Turkey, in the first such repatriation between the two countries.

Rome refilled the Trevi Fountain with water after completing maintenance works, with new limited access for visitors.

Closed in 2016 to comply with safety regulations, the Vasari Corridor has been fully restored. Today, the day after the restoration works were completed, it reopens again for visits with a with a special ticket. Visitors enter through the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, walk through the core of the Ponte Vecchio, and exit at the Boboli Gardens.

Activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) protested at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on Saturday, demanding that the museum sever its sponsorship ties with ING.

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has officially denounced the swirling rumours across various news outlets and social media platforms suggesting that American YouTuber Mr Beast secured a 100-hour rental of the Giza pyramids area for filming purposes. It affirmed that these claims are unfounded and implausible.

Pierre Ciric, Esq., a New York attorney, filed a lawsuit in French court against the Paris Mayor, accusing the prestigious Carnavalet Museum, a municipal museum, to illegally hold an art collection stolen during the Vichy Regime.

At Sotheby’s New York, the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments—dating to the Late Roman-Byzantine period (ca. 300–800 CE)—achieved $5,040,000, surpassing its pre-sale estimate of $1–2 million.

A temporary export bar has been placed on the Fairhaven panels by Flemish artist De Vély.

Claire Tabouret has been selected as the winner of the competition organized by the French Ministry of Culture to design contemporary stained glass windows for Notre-Dame de Paris.

For the first time, direct evidence of the use of psychotropic substances in ancient Ptolemaic Egyptian rituals has been uncovered: researchers have uncovered details invisible to the naked eye inside a ritual vessel dating back over 2,000 years.

Naomi Beckwith is Deputy Director and Jennifer & David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York where she oversees collections, exhibitions, publications, curatorial programs, and archives and provides strategic direction within the international network of affiliate museums.

A small silver amulet, just 3.5 cm in size, with a thin silver foil with a mysterious incision rolled into it: the ‘Frankfurt Silver Inscription’.

In 2024 Christie’s experienced a strengthening of auction sales as the year progressed, together with outstanding results for Private Sales throughout.

Stephen Aragabada's previous work, Secrets, was shown in the Rodney episode of the Netflix hit series Supacell and stands out distinctly in both style and technique. He also caught the attention of American celebrity collector, Alicia Keys who described his work as “Gorgeous”. Since the acclaim, Aragbada has racked up teeming interest, bringing an excitement that anticipates the evolution of his distinct representation of Blackness in contemporary Africa.

Archaeological research at the intersection of Erechtheion and Kallisperi Streets, near the Herodion, revealed new findings, according to the Greek Ministry of Culture.

The Rothko Chapel, which has been closed since Hurricane Beryl hit Houston last July, has announced that it will reopen to the public on December 17.

Polish authorities have announced the recovery of contemporary artworks stolen in Poland while being transported from Ukraine’s Kyiv to Switzerland according to TVP.

he Stedelijk Museum announced a landmark retrospective of Yayoi Kusama, one of the most influential and pioneering artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Christie’s will offer a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live auctions, Old Masters I and Old Master Paintings and Sculpture II, taking place 5 February 2025 at Rockefeller Center.

A stack of “old papers” in an attic… but their contents could unnerve even the most composed! The Municipal Library of Besançon has revealed an extraordinary discovery: an unpublished and passionate correspondence between the painter Gustave Courbet and a Parisian adventurer, Mathilde Carly de Svazzema.