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To ensure a human-centric and ethical development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Europe, MEPs endorsed new transparency and risk-management rules for AI systems.

Restoration plans for Iraq’s Mosul Cultural Museum (MCM) and its collection illustrate its importance within architectural and world history, placing the museum at the center of Mosul’s cultural and community regeneration.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced today the return of two 7th-century stone carvings from a funerary platform, collectively valued at nearly $3.5 million, to the people of China.

The Centre Pompidou’s retrospective exhibition dedicated to Norman Foster reviews the different periods in the architect’s work and highlights his cutting-edge creations, such as the headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (Hong Kong,1979-1986), the Carré d’Art (Nîmes, 1984-1993), Hong Kong International Airport (1992-1998) and Apple Park (Cupertino, United States, 2009-2017). The exhibition is designed by Norman Foster in collaboration with Foster + Partners and the Norman Foster Foundation.

The Rijksmuseum has acquired three works by Marlow Moss: the 1948 painting White and Black (No 27) and two untitled drawings made around 1940 and 1957 respectively. Moss played an important role in the development of abstract art in Europe in the beginning of the 20th century.

RIBOCA3 was previously set to take place from 15 July – 2 October 2022 under the title “Exercises in Respect”, but the organization made the decision to cancel the event due to the devastating Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Art historian Bram Donders, who works as a researcher at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, has received a Dutch Research Council (NWO) grant for his research project, Bequeathed, into women who have gifted or bequeathed artworks to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen since 1849.

The Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the largest modern and contemporary art museums in the world, will close for renovations for five years from the end of 2025 until 2030, due to the wear and tear of its nearly half-century-old building.

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation announced on May 10 that writer and curator Nicolas Bourriaud will serve as the artistic director for the 15th Gwangju Biennale, set to open in September 2024. Bourriaud is an esteemed figure in the international art scene, renowned for his expertise in art theory and curatorial abilities.

Invaders' Snowden mosaic is located at the municipal business school on Frauenstrasse in Munich.

Van Gogh was enormously productive during his time in Auvers-sur-Oise, and made several of his most renowned masterpieces in the French village, including the world-famous Wheatfield with Crows (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam).

The official portraits were taken by Hugo Burnand in the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace following the Coronation Service.

Vandal sprayed paint on work by Miriam Cahn that is supposed to send message against rape but has been accused of depicting pedophilia

Zoë Gray will take up her new role at Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts as from September 1.

It is no secret that the rich history of Egypt is full of remarkable rulers. One name in particular has transcended the centuries like no other... that of Ramses the Great, or Ramses II. A warrior who reconquered lost lands of the Egyptian empire, negotiator of the most famous peace treaty of antiquity, and builder of pharaonic Egypt, his representations are countless.

New York Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) announced that the City of Frankfurt and Städelsches Kunstinstitut (“the Städel”) Museum restituted the painting Portrait of Lady by Fritz von Uhde to the heirs of Gustav Rüdenberg. Portait of a Lady is one of the few works from the Gustav Rüdenberg collection to have survived the Nazi Regime and World War II.

Law enforcement has arrested 60 people and recovered 11,049 stolen artefacts as part of a major international art trafficking crackdown across 14 INTERPOL member countries.

For its new campaign, the Vienna Tourist Board used artificial intelligence to transform some of the most iconic works of art housed in the museums of the Austrian capital to encourage the public to visit the museums and see the original works of art.

Raphaela Vogel will take over De Pont Museum in Tilburg with the exhibition KRAAAN. In recent years, Vogel (Nuremberg, 1988) has captured the attention of the international art world with her installations, in which sculpture, painting, experimental videos and music all flow together to yield a theatrical whole.

Handaxes from the period of the first human migration out of Africa, eggshells of extinct ostriches, and a unique collection of rock engravings. An international team led by the Institute of Archaeology of the CAS in Prague has successfully completed its third excavation season in Oman. Thanks to the unique findings, the researchers will be contributing, among other things, to the reconstruction of the climate and history of the world’s largest sand desert.