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A masterpiece by Canaletto – Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day – was the top lot at Christie's Old Masters evening sale in London.

A self-approved portrait of President Trump now hangs in the Colorado Capitol – replacing an earlier version he disaproved as “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst.”

The European Union is taking a significant step forward in protecting cultural heritage as Regulation (EU) 2019/880, which aims to prevent the illegal trade in cultural goods, becomes fully applicable. 

Relooted is a heist game about reclaiming African artifacts from the Western countries that stole them, developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop.

After a decade of restoration, the impressing Hall of Constatine in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, which houses Raphael’s masterpiece depicting Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge, has been restored.

Ahead of a major exhibition in 2026, the National Portrait Gallery acquired 12 new works from the estate of Lucian Freud, one of Britain’s greatest portrait artists.

The former residence of Ismail Gulgee has been transformed into a museum, showcasing over 170 of his artworks to preserve his artistic legacy.

Two rare Lincoln-signed copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and Emancipation Proclamation set new records for the documents at auction at Sotheby's New York.

Should we continue to display the body of Asru? Is it right for museums to have the bodies of mummified people on display?

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) returned two works of art from the Benin Kingdom to His Royal Majesty Omo N’Oba Ewuare II, Oba of Benin, in a ceremony at the Nigeria House in New York City, 

The Cy Twombly Foundation has donated twelve works to the GNAMC - Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. The donation also includes a gift of $3 million for the renovation of the museum’s restoration laboratory and the funding of a Master’s degree program in honor of the artist.

A colossal marble head was uncovered beneath Rome’s Via Alessandrina.

Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest such prize in the world.

The formal reason for the refusal of the Prefecture of Central Administrative District of Moscow to approve Yabloko pickets was the “current epidemiological situation”. 

Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento have been appointed as the curators of Sharjah Biennial 17, opening in January 2027. 

Anadolu Agency reports that excavations at the site of Olympos in the current-day region of Antalya revealed new evidence that attests to the site’s early Christian history.

The Hamburger Kunsthalle, together with the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen and the Campe’sche Historische Kunststiftung acquired the painting Le Palais de Rideaux by René Magritte. 

Birgit Donker, the director of the Dutch Photography Museum, has been suspended.

The legal successors of Richard Semmel (1875-1950) – the granddaughters of Grete Gross, an acquaintance of the Semmel couple – and the Bührle Foundation as the current owner of the painting ‘La route montante” by Paul Gauguin have agreed on a settlement due to Semmel’s life circumstances and his emigration as
a result of Nazi persecution.