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Finds continue to be made in the excavations of Region IX, Insula 10 in Pompeii, where archaeological investigations are underway as part of a larger project to secure the edge of the site.

In East Asian cultures, the arts of poetry, calligraphy, and painting have traditionally been referred to as “the three perfections.” A selection of works spanning the three forms of art—all created in Japan over the course of nearly a millennium—will be displayed in the exhibition The Three Perfections: Japanese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, opened August 10, 2024, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

That’s the rallying cry heard throughout Deadpool & Wolverine, which became the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever just days after its July 26 release. It’s also the perfect reaction to the news that Heritage Auctions is offering for sale the original artwork Rob Liefeld penciled and inked for the cover of New Mutants No. 98, which introduced Marvel Comics’ Merc With a Mouth.

The sixth Banksy in one week, which showed a silhouette of a cat on an empty billboard in London is being taken down.

Kasper König's death was announced by the Museum Ludwig in Cologne which he directed for twelve years until 2012.

Banksy has confirmed he is behind a new artwork of two pelicans above a fish and chip shop in north-east London.

Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s Ombudsman, called on the UN to respond to Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian cultural heritage, including the Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese. It is Crimea’s unique historical and archaeological monument included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

A group of men were seen taking down the artwork from the roof of a shop in Peckham, south London.

Banksy has posted another artwork in London, marking the third piece of a new animal-themed collection - this time featuring monkeys.

Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama uses her most recognisable motif, polka dots, as inspiration to create Infinite Accumulation, a soaring permanent sculpture at the UK's busiest station, London Liverpool Street

The Manton Foundation has donated $12 million to The Courtauld to create the Manton Centre for British Art, it was announced today.

Amsterdam’s Kunstverein has published an open letter signed by the leaders of arts institutions in support of the Kunstverein after it was recently denied government subsidies owing to “lack of budget” despite receiving a positive rating from the Mondriaan Fund.

Honoring Andy Warhol’s philanthropic legacy on his birthday, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced Philanthropy Factory, a new initiative that provides an opportunity for recent grantees to benefit from the sale of Warhol works from the Foundation’s collection.

The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that the next Whitney Biennial will be co-organized by Museum curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer. Guerrero, the DeMartini Family Curator, and Sawyer, the Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, will lead the development of the eighty-second edition of the Museum’s landmark exhibition series, set to open in spring 2026.

MGLC, the International Centre of Graphic Arts, is pleased to announce the appointment of renowned curator, lecturer and researcher Chus Martínez as Artistic Director of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts (2025). The 2025 edition takes place June 6–October 12, 2025.

The statue of Anne Frank on Merwedeplein square was defaced again. ‘Free Gaza’ was sprayed on the statue with red paint, and the hands had also been painted red. The statue was similarly defaced on July 9.

Bonhams announces Chabi Nouri as Global CEO of the international auction house. Nouri, who will be based in Bonhams’ headquarters in New Bond Street, London, will take up the position in October 2024 at the 14-saleroom auction house.

This September, Musée Rodin in Paris will open its first international outpost – in China. The French museum’s two existing sites in central Paris and in nearby Meudon, in the villa where Auguste Rodin lived until his death in 1917, are well-known cultural destinations thanks to the fame and influence of the sculptor behind The Thinker (1904) and The Kiss (1882).

For the fourth High Line Plinth commission, Iván Argote presents Dinosaur (2024), a colossal, hyper-realistic sculpture of a pigeon cast in aluminum. Dinosaur was first submitted as a proposal for the High Line Plinth in 2020, among 80 proposals that included the third High Line Plinth commission, Pamela Rosenkranz’s Old Tree (2023).

Hundreds of artists, writers and actors on Monday sent an open letter to the UK’s Royal Academy of Arts accusing it of anti-Palestinian censorship after it removed two artworks from its Young Artists’ Summer Show.