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.
A temporary export bar has been placed on an oil sketch, titled Cimon Falling in love with Efigenia, by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.
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 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.
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.
"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'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 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) 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 passed away in Manhattan on June 14, 2025 at age 83.
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.
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.
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.
François-Xavier Lalanne, working in close collaboration with his wife Claude, reshaped the boundaries of sculpture and design in the 20th century.
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 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.
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.
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.