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U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a subpoena to Hunter Biden’s gallerist, George Bergès, and art patron, Elizabeth Naftali, to appear for depositions.

Three Cézanne pictures from the inventory of the Langmatt Museum in Baden were auctioned in New York on Friday night for a total of $44.8 million.

A week ago the reconstruction of the face of Juanita was presented at the Museo Santuarios Andinos in Arequipa, Peru.

London Police charged 44 Just Stop Oil activists after officers made more than 100 arrests on Monday, 6 November.

Nationalmuseum has acquired a painting dated 1822 by Polish-German artist Johann Theodor Goldstein. The imaginary scene depicts a towering cathedral in the early dusk. With its wonderfully visionary qualities, the painting is a novel addition to Nationalmuseum’s German art collection. It will go on show for the first time in autumn 2024 as part of the exhibition entitled The Romantic Eye.

Art Fund is celebrating 120 years of funding art and championing museums and galleries across the UK.

Tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins have been found off the coast of the Italian island of Sardinia.

The Ancient City Belkis/Zeugma is located on the banks of the Euphrates River, built on a land of approximately 20 thousand acres. It has maintained its importance in every period of history because it is in the shallowest passable part of the Euphrates and is a very strategic region in terms of military and trade.

The Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds will operate under a new name starting from Tuesday: the Cultuurfonds. The decision comes in the wake of the news that Prince Bernhard was a member of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler's Nazi party.

Representatives of UK museums, sector bodies and funders took part in the first UK Museum COP at Tate Modern on 31st October 2023 organised by the NMDC. The event secured consensus from museum leaders on collective action to decarbonise the sector and mitigate the impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises.

The Ancient City Belkıs/Zeugma is located on the banks of the Euphrates River within the borders of Belkıs Village, Nizip District, Gaziantep Province. Belkıs/Zeugma Ancient City, it has maintained its importance in every period of history because it is in the shallowest passable part of the Euphrates and is a very strategic region in terms of military and trade.

Christie’s is selling the very fine pearl collier by Fürst, worn by Audrey Hepburn in the final scene of "Roman Holiday". The lot will be offered in the upcoming Jewels Online: The Geneva Edit sale taking place from 3 to 16 November (estimate CHF18,000-26,000). The Fürst family is originally Austro-Hungarian. In the 1850s, Moric Fürst moved to Turin to establish his business as a Jeweller and became a leading supplier for the Savoyard court.

The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong has launched a unique, interactive performance art experience, which fuses AI technology with the ancient art of Chinese ink-brush painting to celebrate the iconic hotel’s 60th anniversary.

Two young Just Stop Oil supporters have smashed the glass cover of a painting once famously slashed by a suffragette. They are demanding the government immediately halt all new oil and gas projects in the UK.

The golden toilet was installed in Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, as part of Italian concept artist Maurizio Cattelan's first solo exhibition in 20 years.

The Odessa National Art Museum was damaged as a result of a night attack on Odessa with the use of missiles and drones. The museum just celebrated it's 124-th birthday.

As part of the Whitney’s reimagined food and beverage program—which aims to create welcoming, approachable spaces for people to gather, connect, and recharge—Frenchette Bakery, which opened in TriBeCa in 2020, will open a new flagship location, with its first-ever cafe in the Museum’s redesigned ground-floor restaurant space in November 2023.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a walrus ivory carving of the Deposition from the Cross so a domestic buyer can be found.

Power of the Throne’ is a temporary exhibition that explores the meaning of thrones using art and historical objects. Including the Iron Throne from ‘Game of Thrones’!

The Frick Collection announced today the launch of the public phase of its capital campaign, which has already raised $242 million during its quiet phase in support of the ongoing renovation and enhancement of the institution’s historic buildings.