The Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum opened in Doha, within the Qatar Foundation's campus in Education City, a 12-square-kilometre urban environment designed for mixed-use that integrates education, research, recreation and cultural heritage.

For the first time, curtains which once hung in Sandringham House have been expertly transformed into 25 luxurious festive stockings by the Dumfries House Sewing Bee.

Germany has agreed to speed up the return of looted Polish cultural property, the two countries' leaders, Merz and Tusk, said after talks in Berlin on Monday.

The Kunstmuseum Basel is compensating the heirs of Julius Freund for seven drawings and one lithograph dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Serpentine and The FLAG Art Foundation announced the creation of a new prize dedicated to supporting artists worldwide. 

New guidance on handling property stolen by Nazis provides clear guidelines for museums, archives and libraries.

The newly elected President of CIMAM (2026–28) is Amanda de la Garza Mata, Artistic Deputy Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain, who will lead the organization together with a renewed Board of 14 international museum professionals representing CIMAM’s global community across more than 91 countries.

Badru Temitayo’s works sits generally in the abstract-figurative. Sometimes he blurs the line in being outrightly figurative, yet still discernible.

Thanks to an amicable agreement with the heiress of the Hess family, who were  persecuted by the National Socialists, a major work from the Von der Heydt Museum can remain in the collection: the painting ‘Two Women (Women in the Green)’ from 1914 by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) expressed concern over the decision-making process used by the ad hoc group created by the city of Ghent to review a Holocaust-era spoliation matter. 

Egypt said Thursday that it had retrieved 17 ancient artifacts dating back to various historical periods from Australia.

Olga Ferrères is an art advisor, dealer, historian, curator, and cultural strategist whose career bridges continents and disciplines.