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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.

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.

At the request of the Ukrainian authorities, the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has just granted temporary enhanced protection to Babyn Yar, the site of one of the largest massacres of the ‘Holocaust by bullets’, and to the Odesa Literary Museum. This brings the number of cultural properties benefiting from this status in Ukraine to 27.

Vatican removes baby Jesus with keffiyeh from nativity scene after backlash over its depiction of the baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh, the traditional scarf used by Palestinians as a national symbol, Catholic media outlets reported Wednesday.

In May 2025, the world’s most popular museum of modern and contemporary art will turn 25. Everyone will be invited to a birthday celebration at Tate Modern from 9 to 12 May.

UK Government has launched an open search today for a team to create a design masterplan to honour The Late Queen. Competition welcomes architect-led multidisciplinary teams to submit details of profile, team composition, and experience.

The website Closer to Memling offers a unique opportunity to explore the world of Hans Memling, a renowned painter of the Flemish Renaissance. This innovative project utilises cutting-edge scientific imaging techniques to provide ultra-high-resolution images of Memling's works. Closer to Memling offers a unique and fascinating visual journey into the heart of the artistic finesse of the 15th century.