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It looks like a pizza what is seen in a Pompeian painting from 2000 years ago, but obviously it cannot be, strictly speaking, since some of the most characteristic ingredients were missing, namely tomatoes and mozzarella.

Director Annabelle Birnie announced new international partnerships with the British Museum, Centre Pompidou and Smithsonian American Art Museum bringing world-famous art collections to Amsterdam. They mark a fresh start for the museum known as H’ART Museum from Friday 1 September. The new H’ART Museum shows the uniting force of art and opens its windows to the world.

Researchers from King’s College in London harness the power of fluorescence to remove the guesswork from painting conservation

The Vatican celebrates 50 years of the Vatican Museums' Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art since its 23 June 1973 inauguration by Pope St. Paul VI.

An Artist from the Non-Western World Who Has Faced the Predicaments of the Oppressed, Pioneered Artistic Expression Representing the Voice of the Voiceless, and Contributed to the “Decentralization” of Art

The Windrush Generation is being celebrated in a series of ten new portraits that will go on public display for the first time from today for visitors to Edinburgh’s royal palace. Commissioned by His Majesty The King in 2022 when Duke of Rothesay, the special display commemorates the positive contributions these pioneering men and women have made to the United Kingdom.

Engravings made on the walls of the cave of Roche-Cotard (Indre-et-Loire, France) using fingers have recently been dated to over 57,000 years ago. Created by Neanderthals, these engravings make Roche-Cotard the oldest known decorated cave with engravings in France - and possibly even in Europe.

Dutch archaeologists on June 21 revealed an around 4,000-year-old religious site, dubbed the "Stonehenge of the Netherlands" in the country's media, which included a burial mound serving as a solar calendar.

AMTD announced this acquisition as part of the commitment to step up its overall presence in France, including a plan to move the headquarters of The Art Newspaper to Paris.

The Diego Rivera Theater is set to become the cultural heart of the City College of San Francisco campus. Situated in a new academic precinct along Frida Kahlo Avenue, the Theater will be the home of Diego Rivera’s Pan American Unity mural while providing a central base for the music and drama academic departments.

Aviva, Manchester City Council and Factory International today announce a long-term partnership which includes landmark support for Manchester’s iconic new arts and culture venue to be named Aviva Studios. The venue, which will be the home of Factory International, is predicted to add £1.1 billion to the economy of Manchester and the surrounding region over a decade. It will support up to 1,500 direct and indirect jobs and provide training and engagement opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds.

A Christ painting from the Church of St. Salvator in Bettbrunn could possibly be by Lucas Cranach the Younger. Now, experts from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) are using the latest technology to search for evidence.

The President of La Biennale di Venezia, Roberto Cicutto, and the Curator of the 60th International Art Exhibition, Adriano Pedrosa, today announce the title and theme of the Biennale Arte 2024, which will take place from 20 April to 24 November 2024 (pre-opening 17, 18, 19 April) at the Giardini, the Arsenale and various venues in Venice.

The Princess of Wales, Patron of the National Portrait Gallery, reopened the Gallery, following an extensive, three-year refurbishment programm

Following the recent Supervisory Board and shareholders’ meetings, documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH can announce the approved and adopted annual financial statements for the financial year 2022. This means that documenta fifteen (June 18 – September 25, 2022) has remained within its EUR 42.2 million overall budget.

Following the major donation in 2018 by art collector Els Blokker-Verwer, the Nardinc Collection, Singer Laren has once again received a substantial art collection.

Almost all memorial plaques in the Queen Wilhelmina Forest in Dronten, commemorating people who have died from cancer, were destroyed on the night of Sunday, June 18, to Monday, June 19.

The Monuments Men and Women Foundation recently restituted a papal bull issued by Pope Pius IX and turned over custody of the rare document to Italian officials. Odessans Sondra and Toby Eoff generously helped underwrite the restitution costs. The papal bull, an official decree issued by the Vatican, was signed by Pope Pius IX in 1862. It established the Catholic Church of Santo Stefano in Scascoli, located south of Bologna and still in existence today.

Conducted under the scientific direction of the Capitoline Superintendency for Cultural Heritage, and made possible by an act of patronage by the Maison Bvlgari, the interventions finally allow the full usability of the Sacred Area of ​​Largo Argentina with a new visit itinerary that, for the first time, allows you to access the site and visit it systematically, reading the stages of life from the Republican age through the imperial and medieval era, up to the rediscovery that took place in the last century with the demolitions of the 1920s.

the Mellon Foundation announced its latest round of grantmaking through The Monuments Project—a commitment to give $250 million by 2025 to transform the nation’s commemorative landscape through public projects that more completely and accurately represent the multiplicity and complexity of American stories. This summer, nine grants totaling $25 million will be awarded directly to municipalities to fund publicly oriented initiatives, bringing total grantmaking through The Monuments Project past its halfway mark to $151.9 million.