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Successful First Six Months for Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture 2025
Article date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Successful First Six Months for Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture 2025

After half a year as European Capital of Culture, the City of Chemnitz, the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH and its many partners are extremely positive.


UK places Export Bar on £8 million Rubens Painting
Article date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

UK places Export Bar on £8 million Rubens Painting

A temporary export bar has been placed on an oil sketch, titled ​​Cimon Falling in love with Efigenia, by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.


The Frick unites Vermeer's Love Letters
Article date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Frick unites Vermeer's Love Letters

In the first show to be held in The Frick Collection’s new Ronald S. Lauder Exhibition Galleries, three works by Johannes Vermeer will be presented from June 18 through August 31, 2025.


Independent’s Art Fair in New York to relocate for 2026 Edit
Article date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Independent’s Art Fair in New York to relocate for 2026 Edit

Independent will take place next year May 14-17, 2026 at a new home at Pier 36, a 70,000-square-foot, light-filled venue located adjacent to the Lower East Side gallery community and contemporary art institutions.


Cosmetics Industry Icon and Arts Patron Leonard A. Lauder dies at 92
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Cosmetics Industry Icon and Arts Patron Leonard A. Lauder dies at 92

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) announces that Chairman Emeritus Leonard A. Lauder passed away on June 14, at the age of 92, surrounded by family. 


Grant funds Smart Museum-Divinity School Partnership to research Religious Objects
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Grant funds Smart Museum-Divinity School Partnership to research Religious Objects

The University of Chicago has received a $2.45 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.


Belgian Conceptual Artist Guillaume Bijl dies at 79
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Belgian Conceptual Artist Guillaume Bijl dies at 79

Guillaume Bijl (1946 - 2025. Antwerp, Belgium) is a self-taught artist. He attended a theatre course and worked successively as a stage builder and painter. From the second half of the seventies he abandoned painting and started making tragi-comedic installations, sculptures and compositions inspired by the banality of our consumption-driven society.
 

Egypt Again delays Opening of Grand Egyptian Museum, citing Regional Tensions
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Egypt Again delays Opening of Grand Egyptian Museum, citing Regional Tensions

"In view of the ongoing regional developments, it was decided to postpone the official inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which was scheduled for July 3," the tourism and antiquities ministry said in a statement.


Iran moves Museum Artifacts to Secure Storage as strikes Intensify
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Iran moves Museum Artifacts to Secure Storage as strikes Intensify

Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization completed moving prominent museum artifacts to secure storage on Saturday as military strikes between Iran and Israel intensified.


More Than Forty Thousand Tourists stranded in Israel, Museums closed
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

More Than Forty Thousand Tourists stranded in Israel, Museums closed

More than forty thousand tourists are stranded in Israel. As the Iran conflict escalates, most of the airports and museums are closed and flights are grounded across Israel.


The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) receives a $22.8-Million Major Gift of 61 Artworks
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) receives a $22.8-Million Major Gift of 61 Artworks

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) announced today a $22.8-million major gift to Canadians of 61 artworks, featuring some of the most iconic artists in contemporary art history, by noted Vancouver-based businessperson and philanthropist Bob Rennie, a Distinguished Patron of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, and The Rennie Family.


Joel Shapiro, Post-Minimalist Sculptor, dies at 83
Article date: Sunday, June 15, 2025

Joel Shapiro, Post-Minimalist Sculptor, dies at 83

Joel Shapiro passed away in Manhattan on June 14, 2025 at age 83.


Smithsonian Director Resigns After Trump Claimed He Fired Her
Article date: Saturday, June 14, 2025

Smithsonian Director Resigns After Trump Claimed He Fired Her

Two weeks after President Donald Trump claimed he’d fired her because she’s a “highly partisan person,” the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery director, Kim Sajet, announced she was stepping down.


Nazi-looted Book returned to August Liebmann Mayer's Daughter
Article date: Saturday, June 14, 2025

Nazi-looted Book returned to August Liebmann Mayer's Daughter

In a ceremony at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Superintendent Harris and Rachida Dati, the French Minister of Culture, returned Vittore Carpaccio: The Life and Work of the Painter to the daughter of Dr. August Liebmann Mayer, a renowned art historian and prominent curator.  


Sting backs Baltic with Major Donation
Article date: Thursday, June 12, 2025

Sting backs Baltic with Major Donation

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead received a major donation from North East musician Sting that kickstarts the art gallery’s fundraising campaign for a £10 million Endowment Fund to sustain creative futures on Tyneside. 


Bronze Rhinoceros Desk by François-Xavier Lalanne sells for $16.4 M. at Sotheby’s
Article date: Thursday, June 12, 2025

Bronze Rhinoceros Desk by François-Xavier Lalanne sells for $16.4 M. at Sotheby’s

François-Xavier Lalanne, working in close collaboration with his wife Claude, reshaped the boundaries of sculpture and design in the 20th century. 


Greek Police discovers Art Trafficking Ring selling fake Picasso for €25 million
Article date: Thursday, June 12, 2025

Greek Police discovers Art Trafficking Ring selling fake Picasso for €25 million

Thirteen people have been arrested in a major police operation in Athens, after members of an art trafficking ring attempted to sell a forged Pablo Picasso painting for 25 million euros. 


UNESCO is Deeply concerned About Threats to World Heritage in Kyiv
Article date: Thursday, June 12, 2025

UNESCO is Deeply concerned About Threats to World Heritage in Kyiv

UNESCO expresses its grave concern over the increasing threats affecting the World Heritage site ‘Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’, following the attack on 10 June 2025 by the Russian Federation. This damage occurred amidst a surge of attacks on numerous Ukrainian cities, resulting in civilian casualties and damage to cultural and educational institutions. 


German Court rules Puzzle Maker can use Da Vinci Image
Article date: Thursday, June 12, 2025

German Court rules Puzzle Maker can use Da Vinci Image

A German court ruled that toymaker Ravensburger can use Leonardo da Vinci's drawing "Vitruvian Man" for its puzzles, in a setback for the Italian state and a Venetian gallery. 


German Artist Günther Uecker dies at 95
Article date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025

German Artist Günther Uecker dies at 95

Günther Uecker, a German artist of the postwar era who redefined abstraction with nails hammed into his canvases, died on Tuesday at 95. His passing was announced by his New York gallery, Lévy Gorvy Dayan.