Scientific papers by mathematical genius Alan Turing have been discovered in a loft and are expected to fetch thousands when they come up for sale at auction on 17 June in Lichfield, Staffordshire – after they were almost shredded by the owners.

The Kimbell Art Museum acquired The Cut Melon by Jean Siméon Chardin. Dated 1760, The Cut Melon has long been recognized as one of the artist’s most remarkable paintings—rare in its oval shape and exemplifying Chardin’s mastery at its peak.

Europol, INTERPOL and the World Customs Organization (WCO) supported investigators from 23 countries in the fight against criminals who exploit humanity’s cultural heritage.

Originally Home to the Whitney Museum of American Art, Site Is Now Set to Become Sotheby’s Global Headquarters.

An exhibition themed “unfinished narrative; inheritance, forgery and smuggling” with a focus on displaying confiscated smuggled items was launched at the Reza Abbasi Museum in Tehran on Monday.

In a historic handover event at the Fowler Museum in California, USA, a collection of 11 objects of deep cultural significance were unconditionally returned to the Larrakia Community of the Northern Territory in Australia.

The Indian artist Sohrab Hura is the eleventh winner of the Eye Art & Film Prize. Hura receives the award for the powerful way in which he captures today’s surreal reality in images.

The Hardliners motorcycle club, founded in the Netherlands in 2019 in prison by former leaders of the Hells Angels (a criminal organization banned by the court), is reported to have been involved in the robbery of the Dacian treasure from the Drents Museum, according to RTL Nieuws.

World Monuments Fund (WMF) today announced a major discovery at Gran Pajatén, one of the most enigmatic and architecturally significant archaeological remnants of the Chachapoya civilization in Peru’s San Martín region.

In recent years, the way we think about interior design has begun to shift. Homes are no longer designed only for function or guided strictly by passing trends—they’re evolving into expressive environments that reflect personality, emotion, and meaning. This shift has opened the door to a renewed love for artistic decor, breathing life into walls, rooms, and everyday objects through creativity and craftsmanship.

Getty announced that the Getty Villa Museum will reopen to the public on Friday, June 27, following its temporary closure due to the Palisades Fire.

Jan Davidsz. De Heem’s luxurious and immaculately preserved still life will be a highlight of Christie’s Old Masters Evening Sale on 1 July, during Classic Week London (estimate: £3,000,000-5,000,000).

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of three antiquities to Iraq collectively valued at $500,000.

The National Gallery has acquired one of the greatest examples of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings – a rare picture, one of only 14 known to exist, by a pioneering painter of richly laid tables with a variety of objects and foodstuffs rendered in exquisite detail.

Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, and leading Qatari organisations Qatar Sports Investments (QSI), a major investor in sports, culture, entertainment and lifestyle, and QC+, a strategic and creative collective specialising in cultural commerce, today announced a one-of-a-kind partnership that will include the launch of a new fair of modern and contemporary art in Qatar.

Calder Gardens announced today that it will open to the public on September 21, 2025, following a celebratory week of special events.

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling for the Vatican to return sacred First Nation artifacts taken from Indigenous communities during the residential school era.

Ulaanbaatar Biennale announced the participating artists and programs for On the horizon, under the moon / Сарны дор, тэнгэрийн хаяанд, presented across various venues in Mongolia’s capital from 6 to 20 June, 2025.

French police have recovered the long-lost bust of American singer Jim Morrison stolen from the grave of the frontman of The Doors, 37 years after it was stolen from Père Lachaise cemetery according to France 24.

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archeologists discovered large portions of a monumental relief that depicts the ruler of the Assyrian empire from the seventh century BC along with two important deities and other figures.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third century B.C.E.) from its collection and formally transferred them to the National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) of the People’s Republic of China during a ceremony at the Chinese Embassy in Washington.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) have formalized a collaboration agreement to enhance cultural exchange and mutual understanding between museum professionals and scholars in the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa was announced as the 2025 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, on Thursday 15 May 2025. The artist was awarded the Prize for his photobook “I carry Her photo with Me”, published by MACK in 2024.

Christie’s Spring Marquee Week—Monday, May 12 through Thursday, May 15, 2025 in Rockefeller Center—generated a total of $693 million, 123% over low estimate, surpassing the auction house’s totals from the previous two Marquee Weeks.

Since 1972, the photograph The Terror of War has been credited to Associated Press photographer Nick Út. However, this attribution is now under serious question.

Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale, the second and final evening sale of the Spring Marquee Week took place Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in the auction house’s Rockefeller Center saleroom in the heart of New York City.

British researchers have discovered that a ‘copy’ of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is in fact an extraordinarily rare original from 1300.

The Decentralized Culture Directorate in La Libertad region (DDC La Libertad) expressed its strongest condemnation of the regrettable act of vandalism committed by an individual who painted an obscene figure on an original wall of the walled complex of Chan Chan, which is more than 600 years old.

A 1955 bronze bust by Alberto Giacometti estimated at $70 million failed to sell at Sotheby’s modern evening auction in New York on Tuesday.

The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has received 163 priceless artifacts from the treasures of King Tutankhamun.

The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo has received 163 priceless artifacts from the treasures of King Tutankhamun.

Turkey has begun what a minister has said, the “largest and most comprehensive” restoration and reinforcement effort on the dome of Hagia Sophia.

Women Artists Shine with New Records Achieved for Grace Hartigan, Olga de Amaral, Kiki Kogelnik, and Ilana Savdie.

Christie’s Spring Marquee Week commenced on the evening of Monday, May 12, 2025 with two consecutive sales taking place in the Rockefeller Center saleroom.

Egypt has retrieved 25 looted antiquities from the United States following a three-year legal and diplomatic campaign involving Egypt’s consulate in New York, with support from the US District Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, prosecutors, and private collectors.

Kapwani Kiwanga is the winner of the ninth edition of one of the world’s mostprestigious and consolidated contemporary art prizes, awarded this year by the Fundació Joan Miró.

The High Museum of Art today announced artist Alison Saar as the 2025 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize in recognition of her contributions to the field of African American art.

Tarot cards fascinate with their rich imagery and hidden messages. These mysterious cards have two purposes. These cards have been used for centuries in Europe as both a game and a tool for spiritual guidance.

Room 34 of the National Gallery will be named as Blavatnik Family Foundation Room in recognition of its significant gift to NG200.

The Council for Culture in the Netherlands advises to structurally adjust the subsidy period for cultural institutions and funds from four to eight years.

The Egyptian archaeological mission from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has uncovered military defensive structures and a residential area for soldiers at the Tell Abu Saifi archaeological site in North Sinai.

Two men, aged 35 and 36, from the Dutch town of Heerhugowaard will remain in pre-trial detention for an additional ninety days. The North Netherlands District Court decided this on Friday during a public hearing in the city of Assen. The court believes there is sufficient reason for this decision, given the role of the suspects in the art heist at the Drents Museum on January 25, 2025.

Yesterday, two suspects in the violent attack on our museum, during which the golden helmet of Coțofenești and the three golden bracelets were stolen, appeared before court. It was an unprecedented assault in the more than 170 years of the Drents Museum's existence.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Italian painter, Sandro Botticelli

Koyo Kouoh, the visionary Cameroonian-born curator and Executive Director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), has died. She was 57.

Brisbane artist Julie Fragar has won the Archibald Prize 2025 and $100,000 for her portrait of fellow Brisbane artist and colleague Justene Williams, titled Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), which depicts Williams as an ‘active master of a multiverse of characters and events’.

Dutch police used undercover cops in the investigation into the theft of Romanian treasures from the Drents Museum in Assen in January Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reports.

French civil society “For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours!” (“Pour l’Ukraine, pour leur liberté et la nôtre!”) has called for Russia’s expulsion from the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

A type of mold resilient enough to survive on the ocean floor has now appeared in Danish museums.

Two new paintings, commissioned to mark Their Majesties' Coronation in 2023, have been unveiled by The King and Queen at the National Gallery.

South African Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie made the remarks at the second G20 Culture Working Group session held in Johannesburg, the largest city and economic hub of South Africa.

The New Museum announced that Tschabalala Self (b. 1990, Harlem, New York; lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York) will create a new sculpture for the building’s facade to be unveiled in fall 2025.

Sale by family of 19th century British engineer of ‘duplicates’ of sacred relics he found in India called illegal by Indian government.

The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven today announces the appointment of Defne Ayas as its new Director.

The NFT boom of 2020 was an explosive moment in the history of digital art. Seemingly overnight a somewhat obscure category of contemporary art took center stage, alongside a powerful and nebulous technology – ‘the blockchain.’

A sword once owned by Napoleon will be auctioned on May 22 at Hôtel Drouot in Paris. Estimated between €700,000 and €1 million, the piece has been kept by the descendants of Marshal Emmanuel de Grouchy.

The King and Queen visited the National Gallery to officially reopen the Sainsbury Wing after its 2-year transformational capital project.

The arts and cultural sector grew at more than twice the rate of the total economy between 2022 and 2023, according to new data from the Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA), a product of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

Miss January stands as the most significant work from Marlene Dumas to ever appear at auction.

A major search and rescue operation had been launched in Jordan after flash floods ripped through vast parts of the country at the weekend.

This summer, for the first time in the history of the Rijksmuseum, a contemporary artist has been invited to curate a major exhibition, spanning the entirety of the Philips Wing.

Christie’s is to sell a view of Venice by Canaletto which was once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, in its Old Masters evening sale on 1 July. It is estimated to make in excess of £20m.

Dara Birnbaum, a pioneer of the feminist and video art movements who probed, mimicked, and remixed mass media, died, May 2, at age 78.

This week sees the final installation of the collection of Fenix, the new art museum about migration, opening in Rotterdam on Friday 16 May 2025.

3 May acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professionals about issues of press freedom and professional ethics.

A New York judge ruled recently that Art Institute of Chicago has to surrender a contested Schiele artwork that the Nazis allegedly looted, but an appellate judge issued an emergency stay this week, allowing the artwork to stay in Chicago, for now.

Bonnie Brennan, CEO of Christie’s, has appointed Alexander Rotter as Global President of Christie’s, effective immediately.

The 30 million euro sale of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917) collapses amid unresolved restitution claims. The painting, rediscovered after decades, had been heralded as a significant find—until questions over its wartime history proved too contentious to resolve.

The National Gallery has acquired a fascinating and mysterious early 16th-century Northern Renaissance altarpiece that has not been exhibited since 1960.

A 15th-century book that disappeared from a Polish city during the wartime Nazi-German occupation has been returned after turning up at an auction in Warsaw last year.

This summer, visitors to the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace will see a special exhibition, The King’s Tour Artists, featuring over 70 works of art from His Majesty’s own collection, many on public display for the first time.

The arts organization and event will be sold to a new company founded by Emanuel and backed by a consortium of investors.

A 12-foot-tall figurative bronze sculpture by artist Thomas J Price, whose multidisciplinary practice confronts preconceived notions of identity and representation takes over Times Square.

From May 9 to November 23, 2025, the altar of the Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice will host two new works by Belgian painter Luc Tuymans.

At a time when cultural organisations across the Netherlands and beyond face mounting challenges—funding cuts, political pressure, and global instability—four leading institutions are taking a bold, united step forward.

In June 2025, two galleries, over an area of some 1200 square metre, will highlight the rich collections of furniture and decorative objects from the 19th century and the later periods of Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) and TEFAF New York Lead Partner, Bank of America, announced the Hispanic Society Museum & Library as the recipient of this year’s TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund (TMRF) in New York.

The recent turmoil in the United States is a matter of grave concern for the art scene and its institutions.

Esila Ayık, student at the KASK in Ghent, who suffers from chronic kidney and heart conditions, was detained and subsequently arrested on April 9.

The 16th edition of Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, will be held in Germany’s Ruhr Area from the 21st of June until the 4th of October 2026.

A child damaged one of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s most valuable paintings this spring during, the museum confirmed. The artwork, Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 by American artist Mark Rothko, is estimated to be worth between 40 and 50 million euros, according to Dutch paper AD.

The Bayeux Tapestry tells the story of the conquest of England by the Duke of Normandy in the year 1066, displayed at the Bayeux Museum in France.

Inside the Sistine Chapel frescoed by Michelangelo Buonarroti the cardinals gather in the conclave to elect the new Pope.

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation has appointed Ho Tzu Nyen as the Artistic Director for the 15th Gwangju Biennale, scheduled for September-November 2026 in Gwangju, South Korea.

On Wednesday 23 April, the Dutch police arrested two more suspects in the investigation into the art theft from the Drents Museum.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has unanimously selected WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism as the lead architect for the museum’s upcoming expansion and transformation project.

he Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced that it will close its Benin Kingdom Gallery on April 28.

A milestone in the history of the Met, after a four-hour meeting with Landmarks Preservation Commission, the Met got the green light to build the Tang Wing - the Met’s new wing for modern and contemporary art.

Glasgow’s Tramway will be the first venue in the UK to present a new piece of work by Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa (b.1961 Ferros Belo Horizonte, Brazil).

The police have arrested a fifth suspect in the investigation into the theft from the Drents Museum in Assen. The 36-year-old man was arrested in a residence in Alkmaar. The stolen golden treasures have not yet been found.

The Japan Foundation has appointed queer Los Angeles–based performance artist Ei Arakawa-Nash to represent Japan at the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, to take place May 9–November 22, 2026.

The city of Maashorst has confirmed that 46 artworks, including a rare Andy Warhol silkscreen of Queen Beatrix, were likely discarded with the trash during the relocation of the former Uden town hall.

Two paintings at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague that were long attributed to Rembrandt were not painted by the master himself, the museum said during a presentation last Thursday.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of a 16th century manuscript that was stolen from Paraguay’s National Archives.

Launching on 1st May 2025 and commissioned by RIBBON International in collaboration with Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways), the ground-breaking visual artist Barbara Kruger launches a major new graphic installation on the exterior of a Ukrainian Railways Intercity train, with Kruger applying her iconic typographic intervention to its surface.

Alberto Giacometti’s Grande tête mince cast in 1955 will headline Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction this May with an estimate in excess of $70 million.

The artist behind the portrait of Donald Trump that Vladimir Putin gifted to the U.S. president last month was Russian painter Nikas Safronov, CNN reported on Tuesday.

The shortlisted artists – Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa – were announced on 23 April 2025, 250 years to the day since the birth of Turner.

The Gerta Silberberg Discretionary Trust and the Buehrle Foundation have come to an amicable settlement solution due to differing assessments of the circumstances surrounding the sale of the painting by Max Silberberg.

Thailand has agreed to return 20 looted artefacts to Cambodia—precious pieces of Khmer heritage that were smuggled abroad during years of conflict and instability.

The Frick Collection officially ushered in a new chapter of its history with a ribbon-cutting ceremony ahead of its public reopening, marking the conclusion of the multi-year renovation and enhancement of its historic Fifth Avenue home.

Both paintings depict the island through the lens of the British Empire, with one showing the signing of a treaty and the other a representation of Indigenous life.

Claude Monet’s Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule is a leading highlight of the 20th Century Evening Sale taking place in New York during the Spring Marquee Week (estimate: $30 million – 50 million).

The Photo of the Year winner for 2025 is a photo by Doha based Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf, taken for The New York Times, of a young boy - Mahmoud Ajjour - severely injured while fleeing an Israeli attack in Gaza.

Celebrated as one of the defining figures of the Pop art movement, Roy Lichtenstein’s dynamic practice expanded beyond his famous comic strip works, spanning a wide range of styles, media and themes.

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired Christ Carrying the Cross, a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-1586).

Kunsthalle Bern hosts the first Swiss solo presentation of Ibrahim Mahama, born in Ghana in 1987.

The value of auction sales for post-2000 artworks are down considerably, investment returns are negative, and big-money sales are in sharp decline, according to the 2025 edition of the Hiscox Artist Top 100 (HAT 100).

Amsterdam Art announced the 13th edition of Amsterdam Art Week (20–25 May), shared the full programme, and revealed the participating galleries and partner projects.

This May, Sotheby’s Modern sales in New York will offer a landmark group of works from the esteemed collection of Rolf and Margit Weinberg. Defined by their distinguished connoisseurship, these visionary collectors assembled one of Europe’s most distinctive private collections over the past 50 years.

A Florida art dealer was charged in a federal court for participating in a conspiracy to sell forged art using fake and fraudulent invoices and authentications.

Palestinian artist Dina Khaled Zaurub was killed in an airstrike west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Russian officials are now selling Ukraine’s national treasures on illegal markets, marking a shift from historical practices when looted artifacts were typically displayed in Russian museums.

Christie’s will offer Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair from the Matthys-Colle Collection as a leading highlight of the 20th Century Evening Sale during Spring Marquee Week in New York (estimate on request; with low estimate in the region of $30 million).

A portrait of President Trump that depicts him raising his fist immediately following the attempt on his life last summer is replacing an image of former President Obama in a prominent spot inside the White House.

For the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2026, Eglė Budvytytė will represent Lithuania, exhibiting a new multi-channel film and installation.

The Prado Museum puts Artificial Intelligence at the service of sharing its Collection. With the help of the Spanish start-up Sherpa.ai, it has developed an algorithm capable of identifying and counting objects and people in a selection of artworks.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced that Pierre Terjanian has been appointed its next Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO. Currently the MFA’s Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Conservation, Terjanian succeeds Matthew Teitelbaum and will assume his new role on July 1, 2025.

Last month, ASIFA-Hollywood, in collaboration with animation industry artists, professionals and studios, announced the launch of AnimAID, a fundraising campaign to support those impacted by the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao announced that six artworks by international contemporary artists will be incorporated into the Museum’s collection, thanks to a gift from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection.

Painted in 1905, just after Paul Signac’s first transformative visit to Venice, Saint-Georges. Couchant (Venise) captures the glowing façade of the iconic San Giorgio Maggiore at sunset, viewed from the Riva degli Schiavoni — a short stroll from the artist’s hotel.

Fondation Louis Vuitton is inviting David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, to take over the entire building for an exhibition that will be exceptional in its scale and its originality.

For years, archaeologists believed the ruins in North Macedonia—first excavated more than 15 years ago—were the remains of a military outpost built to defend against Roman attacks.

The unique exhibition ‘Face to face with Rubens & Van Dyck’ will open in the Saint Paul’s Church in Antwerp from 1 April 2025.

A climate activist of Raleigh, North Carolina, was found guilty by a federal jury for his role in the April 27, 2023, defacement of an art exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

On Friday 9 May, for the very first time ever, one lucky person will sleep overnight at the National Gallery - in a bed within sight of the world’s greatest paintings - ahead of its complete public reopening to mark its 200th anniversary.

Ahead of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Antananarivo, Madagascar's culture minister will be travelling to Paris to recover the skull of King Toera. Accompanied by descendants of the former sovereign, she will co-preside over a ceremony in the presence of her French counterpart Rachida Dati.

he Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) announced that the monumental ancient Greco-Roman bronze statue of a standing draped male figure, acquired by the museum in 1986, will be displayed in the CMA’s Monte and Usha Ahuja Founders Rotunda beginning April 8.

At the National Gallery, Munch’s Man with horse 1918 joins Jackson Pollock’s Blue poles in marking a defining moment for the national collection and Australia’s cultural heritage. This highly significant acquisition has been made possible through the generosity of Geoff Ainsworth AM.

Amid a challenging economic environment, global art market sales reached an estimated $57.5 billion in 2024.

Dries Verhoeven has been selected to represent the Netherlands during the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

British artist Sarah Boardman stated that criticism from former US President Donald Trump called into question her professional integrity and created a threat to her career.

The young girl uncovered an ancient scarab amulet during a family trip to Tel Azeka, near Beit Shemesh.

Kristl Strubbe will take over the management from August 1, 2025 and will be responsible for the overarching activities of Musea Brugge.

On Sunday, 6 April 2025, Nan Goldin's major solo exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie closed with around 225,000 visitors.

The artistic career of Gerhard Richter, born in 1932, began at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Already during his training, the talented student was greatly encouraged by his teacher Heinz Lohmar (1900 – 1976). After graduating and during his time as a doctoral candidate, Richter had the opportunity to carry out a number of mural commissions in Dresden.

New York Attorney General Letitia James today co-led a coalition of 20 other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of three federal agencies that provide services and funding supporting public libraries and museums, workers, and minority-owned businesses nationwide.

New York, Berlin, Mexico City, Paris, Hong Kong, Brussels, Athens, Budapest, Washington, DC, Toronto, Rome, Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne, Stockholm, Seoul, Antwerp, Los Angeles, London, Barcelona, Stockholm, Johannesburg, Brazil, Singapore, and many, many other places are participating in Slow Art Day.

A painting by Camille Pissarro remains in Kunsthalle Bremen as a result of a just and fair solution.

Children participated in cave paintings because they were perceived as mediators between the physical and spiritual worlds.

Scotland + Venice, which supports the promotion of contemporary visual art in Scotland on an international stage, has established a reputation as one of the Biennial’s most exciting collateral events over the course of the last 20 years.

The Getty, is selling bonds for $500 million to help preserve the Getty Center and the Getty Villa as California prepares for another fire-risk summer.

An investigation into allegations of child pornography at a Sally Mann exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is closed, but the case has prompted a Tarrant County representative to propose a law outlining the types of artworks that should be barred from museums.

Spectacular painting by Joan Mitchell unveiled today at Tate Modern, one of a group of works being donated by Miami’s Pérez family alongside an endowment to fund curatorial research

Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Oslo, Norway, is delighted to announce Lap-See Lam as the 2025 recipient of The Lise Wilhelmsen Art Award, one of the most significant art awards in the world.

International museums in 2024 collectively experienced a slight dip in attendance that marks a return to normalcy in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, the Art Newspaper reports.

Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists working at Abydos in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, discovered the massive tomb of an unnamed pharaoh at the ancient necropolis of Anubis Mountain, shedding new light on a long-lost dynasty and a lesser-known period in Egyptian history.

Some twenty-five sculptures and ceremics and over thirty light sculptures by the American-Japanese artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) will be on view in and around the Rijksmuseum this summer.

Helsinki Biennial 2025 brings together 37 artists and collectives on Vallisaari Island, in Esplanade Park, and at HAM Helsinki Art Museum. Organised for the third time, the theme of this year’s biennial is Shelter: Below and Beyond, Becoming and Belonging. Helsinki Biennial will be held from 8 June to 21 September 2025.

A team of archaeologists discovered a remarkable funerary relief depicting a couple—a man and a woman at an almost life-size scale.

Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime in many countries, including the Netherlands, looted and confiscated an unprecedented number of art and cultural objects from mostly Jewish owners.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of two stone sculptures to the people of Cambodia. The objects were recovered pursuant to several criminal investigations into trafficking networks targeting Cambodian antiquities, including that of SUBHASH KAPOOR.

The security of the Dacia exhibition in the Drents Museum failed during the theft of the Romanian art treasures that took place at the end of January.

Anne Katrine Senstad is a multi-disciplinary Norwegian artist based between New York and Oslo. Her practice lies at the intersection of photography, film and video, neon sculpture and light based spatial installations, with a focus on the phenomena of perception, light, sound, and color.

Folkestone Triennial 2025, one of the UK’s leading contemporary art festivals, is pleased to share the full line-up of artists for its highly anticipated sixth edition. Opening on Saturday 19 July and running until Sunday 19 October 2025, this year’s Triennial will see 18 artists from 15 countries create ambitious new commissions that will transform Folkestone’s urban and coastal landscapes.

Sudan is home to numerous archaeological sites dating back to prehistoric times and ancient civilizations, making it one of the world’s most important cultural heritage centers.

Tate Britain is returning a painting by Henry Gibbs to the descendants of Samuel Hartveld, a Jewish art dealer from Antwerp. Another painting from Hartveld’s collection will be auctioned the end of April at Dorotheum in Vienna, and a third one is being claimed in Ghent.

The Museum of Modern Art announced today that after an intensive six-month international search, its Board affirmed a unanimous decision to appoint Christophe Cherix in September 2025 as the next David Rockefeller Director, to succeed Glenn D. Lowry.

The Onzea-Govaertys collection of objects and works of art was as exceptional as it was varied, having been assembled from the 1970s onwards by Joris Onzea and Suzanne Govaerts, attracted numerous collectors, including 21% new buyers, and achieved a total of €10M, surpassing the high estimate.

A painting of Donald Trump hanging with other presidential portraits at the Colorado state Capitol will be taken down after Trump claimed that his was purposefully distorted.

Following a Thames Valley Police investigation, two men have been sentenced for damaging and stealing the Paddington Bear statue in Newbury.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of 12 antiquities to the people of Cyprus and a Silver Medallion to the people of Spain.

Frieze has named Emanuela Tarizzo as the new director of Frieze Masters. She will take up the post at the beginning of April. Bringing strong experience in the art market and a rich appreciation for historical art across time periods and geographies, Tarizzo will lead Frieze Masters into its next chapter.

Opening on 20 June 2025, Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting will be the largest major museum exhibition in the UK dedicated to the work of one of the world’s foremost contemporary painters. Bringing together 50 works made throughout her career to date, the exhibition is broadly chronological in scope and will trace the development of Saville’s practice from the 1990s to today.

The Chartreuse de Douai Museum in France announced the discovery of a previously unseen painting by Lavinia Fontana, the most important female painter of the Italian Renaissance.

Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced the discovery of a tomb belonging to a high-ranking military commander who served during the reign of Ramesses III (reigned ca. 1184–1153 B.C.), Ahram Online reports.

The 14th edition of the Taipei Biennial 2025, titled Whispers on the Horizon, brings together 54 artists from 35 cities worldwide. Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, the exhibition features 33 newly commissioned works and site-specific installations that engage deeply with the museum’s unique architecture and context.

Christie’s 20th/21st Century Art auctions in London concluded with a market-leading season total of £171,285,704 across seven live and online sales, selling over 91% by lot and 121% of the low estimate.

President Trump said on Truth Social a portrait of him hanging in the Colorado State Capitol "was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before". Mr Trump said he was speaking on behalf of many complainants when he called on the governor to take it down.

Jack Whitten created visionary beauty from righteous anger. Born in Bessemer, Alabama, amid the violence of the segregated South, he joined the Civil Rights movement, then made his way to New York in 1960.

The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) has released the visitor figures of its members for 2024.

A climate art installation by Indian artist Aakash Ranison will melt when the temperature hits a particular mark, showcasing how it's living art.

The behind-the-scenes world of any film is a collaborative project, and Steven Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi fantasy classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is no exception.

TEFAF Maastricht 2025 has successfully concluded its 38th edition, reporting robust sales across all collecting categories and reaffirming its status as the world’s premier fair for art, antiques and design.

Art Brussels returns for its 41st edition from 24 to 27 April 2025, bringing together 165 galleries from 35 countries in five curated sections - Prime, Solo, '68 Forward, Discovery and Invited.

The Royal Academy of Arts exhibits a comprehensive survey of politician, author and artist Victor Hugo’s rarely seen works on paper, which were last exhibited in the UK over 50 years ago.

The Swiss parliament has approved a CHF987.9 million cultural budget for 2025-2028, following the resolution of a prolonged disagreement over the handling of looted art.

AstaGuru, India’s premium auction house, announces a strategic investment from the family office of Adar Poonawalla to acquire approximately 20% stake.

As the first-ever organization to centralize data on the restitution of African belongings and human ancestors, Open Restitution Africa releases groundbreaking case studies and data insights.

The V&A announces the winners of the 2025 V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, the third iteration of the museum’s open call prize which identifies, supports and champions the talent of global female photographers.

London Museum announced a gift of the single largest archive of archaeological material ever received by the museum, a world-renowned collection of Roman artefacts uncovered on the site of Bloomberg's European headquarters in the City of London.

In the Coto Correa site, located in Las Chapas, a team of experts identified a stone block with engravings that could be over 200,000 years old.

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) announced Sarah Sze (b. 1969, Boston, MA) as the inaugural recipient of its new Meraki Artist Award.

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has chaired a meeting of the Supreme Committee to organise the opening celebrations of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), confirming that the opening date is set for 3 July.

Clara the rhinoceros was an absolute superstar in the 18th century. Unfamiliar and impressively large, this strange looking animal inspired awe in everyone who saw her. For 17 years she and her Dutch owner toured Europe, visiting royal courts, markets, fairs and carnivals. From Vienna to Paris and from Naples to Copenhagen, royalty, farmers, townsfolk and artists would all come out to admire her, and to capture her likeness.

Aracne is a software programme based on research and collaboration between the University of Seville and the Museo Nacional del Prado. Specifically designed to analyse the fabrics most commonly used in easel painting, it has yielded significant results, both regarding the attribution, dating and provenance of works and the relationships established between them.

A painting of Christ being laid in the tomb, long hidden under layers of overpainting and forgotten by history, will once again be visible to the public in an upcoming exhibit at the Vatican.

It’s not every day that a curator gets a chance to reunite a lost print with its centuries-old companion. But for Stephen Tabor, The Huntington’s curator of rare books, that opportunity arrived with an unexpected email from a British colleague last spring.

The City Mayor in cooperation with the Arts and Culture Department of the City Implementing Agency and the Arts Council of Mongolia (ACM) NGO announced the Ulaanbaatar Biennale will be taking place from 6 to 20 June, 2025 across various venues in Ulaanbaatar.

Three men involved in the theft and sale of a multi-million pound gold toilet from Blenheim Palace have been convicted.

The opening of TEFAF Maastricht 2025 has once again affirmed its position as the world’s leading art fair, with strong early sales across key categories including fine and contemporary art, antiques, and design. Invited guests from across the globe gathered for the prized opening, seizing the opportunity to acquire important works from the fair’s unrivaled selection.

Research from English Heritage suggests that a newly displayed portrait at Wrest Park could be the only portrait of Lady Jane Grey that was painted before she was executed.

French politician Raphael Glucksmann is calling for US to return the Statue of Liberty. “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it,” he said.

The All Party-Parliamentary Group on Afrikan-Reparations (APPG-AR) is calling for a ban on the sale of ancestral remains, as well as on their display in museums and other institutions.

Ancient Egyptian mummified bodies smell ‘woody,’ ‘spicy’ and ‘sweet’, finds a new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Ljubljana, revealing new details about mumification practices.

The Tate is cutting 40 jobs, reports the Financial Times.

In 2025 the Mauritshuis will mark eighty years since the liberation of the Netherlands. The German occupation was a turbulent time for the Mauritshuis, with its collection in storage, propaganda exhibitions, music recitals and people in hiding to escape forced labour (the Arbeitseinsatz).

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced a $1.5 million grant from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, in support of Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, the first major national and international museum retrospective of the groundbreaking work of Ruth Asawa (1926–2013).

Considered lost since 1938, Gustav Klimt's portrait of a prince from Ghana is on public display again for the first time. Viennese art dealers are presenting the painting from a private Austrian collection at the TEFAF art fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

A study led by the IPHES and involving the URV assigns the oldest human remains found at Atapuerca to the species Homo affinis erectus and confirms that Western Europe was populated by two species of hominin more than a million years ago

The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma has selected Klara Kristalova, Benjamin Orlow and Tori Wrånes to represent the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition will be curated by Kiasma’s Chief Curator, Anna Mustonen, and commissioned by Kiasma in collaboration with Moderna Museet, Sweden, and OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway.

The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia has nominated a collective consisting of cultural practitioners Gianmaria Andreetta, Luca Beeler, Nina Wakeford, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Lithic Alliance and Yul Tomatala for the Swiss Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia 2026. For the first time, the Swiss Biennale contribution was selected through an open competition, with 140 projects submitted.

Greek Member of Parliament Nikos Papadopoulos was arrested on Monday after allegedly vandalizing artworks at the National Gallery in Athens, protesting against what he described as 'blasphemous' art that offends the Christian faith, Enikos reported.

A 40-year-old woman from Heerhugowaard, Netherlands, who was arrested in connection with the art heist at the Drents Museum in Assen, has been released.

Fundación Fernando Romero, the not-for-profit foundation established by award-winning architect and design curator Fernando Romero announced plans to adapt the historic, Luis Barragán-designed La Cuadra San Cristóbal into a cultural resource for the public at large and the world’s art and architecture community.

Works from the Collection of Sir Anthony Caro will be offered during Spring Marquee Week in New York in the Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale.

Getty has acquired the archive of American artist Raymond Petitbon. Pettibon, who became known in the 1980s for his work in the Southern California music scene, particularly through posters and album covers, later gained widespread recognition in the fine art world.

Replacing the former Lenin Museum, the Nootti museum deals with the Eastern relations from fresh perspective and continues to the present day in the same premises.

The planned appearance of Belgian artist Jan Fabre at the Cyprus International Theatre Festival (CITF) has triggered backlash from the artistic community following his 2022 conviction for sexual harassment and public indecency.

The 44th edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid, which closes its doors Sunday evening, is expected to have exceed a total of 95,000 visitors.

This Spring, Sotheby’s will offer two of the most significant game-worn jerseys in basketball history—each representing the humble beginnings of two of the most iconic players to ever grace the hardwood: Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

Dutch Minister Bruins wants to prevent a medieval gold ring from being sold abroad.

The city of Münster is returning the painting "Reading Man" by Bernhard Pankok (1872-1943) to the rightful heirs of the Jewish tobacco merchant and art collector Max Rosenfeld.

A year ago, ArtDependence reported on Belgian artist Sofie Muller’s installation ‘The Clean Room’ being presented as one of thematic pavilions of maltabiennale.art 2024.

Tate and Hyundai Motor today announce that Máret Ánne Sara will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. Máret Ánne Sara is a Northern Sámi artist and author known for her work exploring global ecological issues through the lens of her lived experience within the Sámi community.

What began in 1955 at the Fridericianum, originally alongside the Federal Garden Exhibition, has since evolved into one of the world’s most significant series of exhibitions for contemporary art worldwide. On July 15, 1955, the first documenta, founded by Arnold Bode, was opened in Kassel. A total of 15 editions of documenta have taken place since then. documenta 16 is currently in preparation and will be inaugurated in 2027 in Kassel.

René Magritte’s La reconnaissance infinie is the top lot of the season, realising 10.3M. Michael Andrews led the 20/21 London Evening Sale setting a new record for the artist. 94% Sold by Lot | 97% Sold by Value | 43% of lots sold above the high estimate.

The Prince Claus Fund announced that they have received a €1.5 million contribution from the National Postcode Lottery.

The Rijksmuseum is displaying a recently acquired still life by Maria van Oosterwijck in the Gallery of Honour from today.

World Animal Protection opposes a new exhibition in Copenhagen by artist Marco Evaristti, which involves starving three piglets as a protest against industrial pig farming.

Bernd Ebert has been appointed director of the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – SKD), effective 1 May 2025.

Items seized in New York include pottery, jade, bronze and Tibetan Buddhist art, some dating back thousands of years.

The Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Government of Nepal, has initiated the return of a significant sculpture—Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda—to its place of origin in Nepal.

The Worcester Art Museum (WAM) announced that it has entered into a long-term loan agreement with the Italian Ministry of Culture as part of the Museum’s voluntary return of two objects from its collection.

Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Netherlands, and the Kremer family have announced that the Kremer Collection will potentially be housed on long-term loan at the museum.

Holly Lowens' paintings explore the tension between civility and primal instinct.

As part of a PhD thesis, an innovative technological investigation conducted by the Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with the Sforza Castle and with the technical support of Codevintec, has revealed the presence of numerous underground passages under the Sforza Castle, in correspondence with what was the Garland, some of which could be linked to secret passages of a military nature, also described in drawings by Leonardo da Vinci.

A painting stolen in 1974 from the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland, has been found in a museum in Gouda, Netherlands. Museum Gouda and art detective Arthur Brand confirmed the discovery as reported by De Telegraaf.

A small wooden box which may have been a holiday souvenir either brought back by Rudyard Kipling, or given to him as a gift by his daughter, has turned out to be a very rare handmade South American casket.

In December 2024, the G.A.S. Foundation, in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, announced the call for the third edition of the G.A.S. Fellowship Award. This year, the award offered two fully-funded six-week residencies at G.A.S. Lagos for outstanding mid-career professionals based in Africa: one for a mid-career visual fine artist and one for a mid-career curator.

Tate Modern celebrates the provocative and boundary-pushing career of Leigh Bowery - one of the most fearless and original artists of the 20th century.

More than 100 years after the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a major new fresco sheds light on the mysteries of Dionysus in the classical world. In a large banquet hall excavated in recent weeks in the central area of Pompeii, in insula 10 of Regio IX, an almost life-size frieze, or “megalography” (from the Greek for “large painting”-a cycle of large-figure paintings), has emerged, circling around three sides of the room; the fourth was open to the garden.

The fourth edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) will be curated by Allison Glenn and presented from September to December 2026.

Catherine Nichols is an internationally acclaimed arts and literary scholar, curator and writer, whose work spans contemporary art, cultural history, and interdisciplinary research.

The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, today announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Cooper Robertson will open in fall 2025.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of 11 antiquities collectively valued at nearly $1 million to Greece.

On Friday, February 28, more than 300 naturists from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg will gather at the Boverie Museum in Liège, Belgium, for a unique nude visit to the exhibition Paul Delvaux and His Universe. This will be the largest naturist museum night ever held in the Low Countries.

The Flemish government has appointed Belgian firm Bovenbouw Architectuur and Swiss studio Christ & Gantenbein to design the ambitious new building for the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA).

An unusual art restitution case is currently being heard in New York criminal court. The heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer and Holocaust victim, are seeking the return of Egon Schiele's watercolor and graphite piece Russian Prisoner of War (1916) from the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Hellenic Republic of Greece announced that it will return a 7th century BCE Bronze Head of a Griffin to Greece.

The world-renowned British artist, Lubaina Himid RA, CBE (b. 1954, Zanzibar), will represent Great Britain and deliver a major solo exhibition of new work at the British Pavilion.

Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The UK Government announced the shortlisted design teams for the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II.

Archaeologists in eastern China have uncovered evidence that some sections of the Great Wall are far older than historians initially believed Jinan Daily reports.

The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, exhibits a landmark exhibition of German artist Anselm Kiefer.

Christie’s is to auction Egon Schiele’s Knabe in Matrosenanzug (Boy in a Sailor Suit) (estimate: £1,000,000 – 1,500,000), as a highlight of the 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2025. Part of the collection of Fritz Grünbaum, this work is being offered following a restitution agreement.

The National Gallery announces the partners for The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour 2025–27. These will be the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich; South Shields Museum and Art Gallery; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. The National Gallery Masterpiece Tour has been running for over a decade, and this marks the first edition of the tour which will work with four partners.

Historic England acquired the Janette Rosing Collection of England: a world-class collection of some of the finest earliest landscape photography of England, taken by leading practitioners of the time.

The German sandal maker had sought a ruling that its sandals could be classified as art and thus afforded strong copyright protections.

A 26-year-old man is the fourth suspect arrested in connection with the theft of the Coțofenești Golden Helmet and three Dacian gold bracelets that were on display at the Drents Museum in Assen, Dutch police said on Thursday.

Owned by the Hon. Moyra Campbell (1924-2024) for over six decades, the painting was last publicly exhibited in Auerbach’s retrospective at the Hayward Gallery and the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 1978.

In many ways, eyewear as an accessory has transcended its functional purposes. Designers and users alike are exploring new ways that these accessories can be perceived and utilized.

M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District (WestK) in Hong Kong, and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), fostering the first comprehensive collaboration between MoMA and a museum in Asia on such areas as curatorial research and exchange, conservation, programme sharing, and professional development.

Hundreds of arts venues, museums, libraries and heritage buildings will receive a share of more than £270 million as part of an Arts Everywhere Fund from the government, supporting jobs and creating opportunities for young people to learn creative skills while helping to boost people’s sense of pride in where they live.

At Nigeria's request, the Netherlands is returning 113 "Benin Bronzes" from its national collection.

A rare, entirely hand-painted work by Banksy is set to headline Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction on 4 March in London, with an estimate of £3-5 million. Crude Oil (Vettriano) comes to the market from the collection of Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist and founding member of American pop-punk band blink-182.

A 600-year-old lost fortified city built by the Zapotec people in the 1400s has been uncovered in southern Mexico, challenging long-held beliefs that the site was merely a military outpost.

A joint Egyptian-British archaeological team has uncovered the long-lost tomb of King Thutmose II, the last missing royal tomb of the 18th Dynasty.

A raid by the Carabinieri uncovered a clandestine art forgery workshop north of Rome, leading to the seizure of 71 counterfeit artworks and forged certificates of authenticity. The fake works were being sold online through platforms like eBay and Catawiki.

‘I’ve always been very moved by the movements of the mouth and the shape of the mouth and the teeth ... I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I’ve always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset’ (Francis Bacon)

According to a Live Science report, a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb decorated with wall paintings has been uncovered in central Italy’s Tarquinia necropolis.

The Whitney Museum of American Art will present Amy Sherald: American Sublime, the artist’s debut solo exhibition at a New York museum and the most comprehensive showing of her work.

A bronze by French sculptor Camille Claudel was auctioned off in France on Sunday for more than $3 million.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced that, following a criminal investigation, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has agreed to surrender the statue of Marcus Aurelius so that the D.A.’s Office can repatriate it to the people of Türkiye. The CMA will also dismiss with prejudice their federal lawsuit challenging the Office’s seizure of the statue in August 2023.

Priscilla Monge (Costa Rica) is one of the foremost conceptual artists of Central America. Graduating from the University of Costa Rica with a degree in painting, she has since embraced a wide variety of mediums, including textiles, video, installation, and photography. Her work explores the violence and brutality that exist in the everyday, often tackling these themes with humor and cynicism.

A City of London Police sentry box, which hit the headlines last summer after Banksy turned it into one of his latest artworks, will become one of the most popular and photographed exhibits at the new London Museum.

King Charles III has approved the award of Honorary OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) to Mrs Yoshiko Mori in recognition of her contribution to UK-Japan culture and education.

Amsterdam Art announced the 13th edition of Amsterdam Art Week and shared the dates for the 2025 event as 20 - 25 May (press view 21-23 May).

Two Palms gallery announced the passing of Mel Bochner on February 12, 2025.

Sculpture Projects Münster has appointed Vincent Schier as the curator of the 50th anniversary edition, set to open in June 2027.

Christie’s offers Tamara de Lempicka’s Portrait du Docteur Boucard (1928; estimate: £5,000,000-8,000,000) as a major highlight of its 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2025.

Many museums around the world are actively trying to redress the balance in their collections of European paintings before 1850 where, in general, female portraits and especially works painted by women artists are far outnumbered by their male counterparts.

The Venice Biennale is one of the most important platforms for visual arts in the world. It is an opportunity for Flanders to promote its significance within the international field of contemporary visual arts.

The Horvitz Collection is the preeminent collection of French Old Master paintings, drawings, and sculptures in the United States, and while the Art Institute is already renowned for one of the most comprehensive collections of 19th-century French art worldwide, this unparalleled gift will allow the museum to provide its visitors with a 300-year panorama of French art that is wholly unique outside of France.

Marking the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Egypt, Türkiye has returned 152 historical artifacts belonging to Egypt.

Qatar will build a national pavilion in the historic venue of Giardini della Biennale, which first opened to the public in 1895.

The reward for the golden tip that leads to the recovery of the artworks from Romania, which were stolen from the Drents Museum, has been increased to 250,000 euro.

This summer, a significant portion of the artworks from the collection of the Leverkusen-based Bayer AG will be auctioned at Van Ham in Cologne.

The Kennedy Center board of trustees voted Wednesday afternoon to install President Donald Trump as chairman of the board.

Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Romania and the Netherlands have set up a dedicated joint investigation team (JIT) into the theft of four pieces of precious historic Romanian art from the Dutch Drents Museum, last month. The JIT has been set up with active support from Eurojust, which will provide operational, logistic and legal assistance to the investigators on the case.

An undiscovered painting by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) of a mystery woman, hidden for more than a century beneath one of the very first paintings from the artist’s famous Blue Period, has been revealed by conservators at The Courtauld Institute of Art using specialist imaging technology to examine the work for the first time.

The students of the Berlin Art Academy (UdK) are protesting against drastic budget cuts by covering the main university facade with black fabric.

A Stradivarius violin sold for $11.25 million at auction on Friday, showing the continued appeal of the legendary instruments.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced 3 men were convicted on February 7, 2025, for conspiracy to commit theft of major artwork, concealment and disposal of major artwork and interstate transportation of stolen property.

Christie’s is to auction three exceptional paintings by renowned Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897–1994) as key highlights of The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale on 5 March 2025, part of the 20th/21st Century London Marquee Week.

In 1925, 100 years ago, Anatol Josepho invented the first fully automated, coin-operated photobooth which he named the Photomaton.

More than 3,000 artists are calling on auction house Christies to cancel a first-of-its-kind sale of artworks entirely produced using AI.

According to new research published by psychiatry professor Stephen M. Stahl, artist Jackson Pollock clearly incorporated images into his pre-drip paintings and repeatedly used the same images in multiple drip paintings, potentially as a result of "extraordinary" spatial skills related to his bipolar disorder.

On February 8, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States dedicated to Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840); it will be on view through May 11, 2025.

An apparently anonymous painting purchased by an Italian collector at a flea market in France 15 years ago has been attributed to modernist painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), known for his portraits of figures with elongated faces and necks.

If the stolen historical golden helmet and three bracelets are not recovered, the Dutch government will have to cover the €5.8 million loss. The Drents Museum's insurance will not pay anything, as confirmed by RTV Drenthe and the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science.

Mesoma Hammida Onyeagba’s journey in the world of art is a tale of resilience, passion, and a commitment to self-expression. Born and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Mesoma’s childhood played a crucial role in shaping her artistic path.

A significant painting from the collection of the Silesian Museum in Görlitz has been identified as a work left behind by art collector Otto Wachenheim when fleeing Nazi persecution.

A 3.1 magnitude earthquake rocked the Campi Flegrei area near Naples at 8:52 on Wednesday as a wave of seismic activity in the volcanic caldera continued.

In the same week that a burglary occurred at the Drents Museum, the Museum Van Marken in Delft has also reported the theft of some important collection items.

Almost 3 years after the start of the war, Audrey Azoulay once again visited Ukraine to increase UNESCO's support for cultural professionals involved in the country's recovery. Most notably, she inaugurated a new national cultural institution: the Lviv Culture Hub.

This is the first exhibition to take on the full breadth of Peter Hujar’s later photography.

The president of the Louvre, Laurence Des Cars, has proposed requiring an additional ticket to view the Mona Lisa, in addition to the museum's general admission.

The Harvard Art Museums announce an extraordinary gift from the collection of Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus; the gift comprises sixty-two prints and two paintings by Edvard Munch as well as one print by Jasper Johns.

‘The Struggle Against Terrorism’ (1934–35), a monumental landmark mural by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish is unveiled to the public on Friday, 31 January 2025 in a celebration honoring the masterwork’s resplendent restoration.

Russian forces launched a Friday night missile attack on the historic centre of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa, a UNESCO World Heritage site, damaging buildings and injuring two people, local officials said.

The Worcester Art Museum (WAM) announced today that it has entered into a long-term loan agreement with the Italian Ministry of Culture as part of the Museum’s voluntary return of two objects from its collection.

In an email send to ArtDependence, a Van Gogh Museum spokesperson said that the Van Gogh painting bought at a garage sale in 2019 is not an authentic Van Gogh.

President Trump revived an executive order to establish a statuary park named the National Garden of American Heroes (National Garden).

The Tribunal Judiciaire de Paris has ruled that 135 paintings worth over €200m seized by the French authorities from leading Paris art authenticator ArtAnalysis include works that collector Uthman Khatib seeks to recover in German litigation proceedings against their thief and convicted Russian-Israeli criminal Mozes Frisch.

The U.S. Copyright Office released Part 2 of its Report on the legal and policy issues related to copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). This Part of the Report addresses the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI.

On the recommendation of the Federal Art Commission, the Federal Office of Culture is this year presenting the Swiss Grand Award for Art/Prix Meret Oppenheim to Felix Lehner, Pamela Rosenkranz and Miroslav Šik. The award ceremony will take place on 16 June, the day of the opening of the Swiss Art Awards exhibition in Basel and will be attended by Federal Councillor Elisabeth Baume-Schneider.

A unique survey of U.S. art museum directors finds mounting concerns that threats of censorship have been worsening from multiple directions in recent years and that more calls might be coming in the near future to censor what they can display in exhibitions.

The Dutch police is seeking more information about the whereabouts of two arrested suspects following a burglary at the Drents Museum on the morning of Saturday, January 25.

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced the acquisition of 175 artworks by more than 60 modern and contemporary artists through purchase and gifts, marking transformative milestones in its 50th anniversary year.

LA Art Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from February 19 to 23, 2025 for their 30th anniversary, marking their pioneering role in the city’s emergence as a global epicenter of art.

The Frick Collection announced that it will reopen to the public on April 17, 2025, following the multi-year renovation and enhancement of its historic Fifth Avenue home.

The Romanian government is demanding "unprecedented compensation" for the theft of Romanian art treasures from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands says Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu. The stolen masterpieces have yet to be recovered.

After an intensive four-day manhunt, the police have arrested three suspects for the spectacular heist at the Drents Museum in Assen on Saturday morning.

In the autumn of 2023, 404 silver and gold coins dating back to the start of the Common Era were found in the Dutch municipality of Bunnik, not far from Utrecht.

The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has made a significant addition to its collection with the acquisition of a new work by internationally renowned Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. The Friends of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart e.V. purchased "Disremembered XV," a poignant piece from Salcedo's ongoing "Disremembered" series, which explores themes of loss, grief, and social injustice.

Archaeological excavations in the Kaleto district of the Bulgarian town of Lom, which concluded recently, uncovered significant Roman military remains dating back to the 1st century AD, BNR reports.

Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA), have been selected to design the 2025 Pavilion, titled A Capsule of Time. Marina Tabassum’s Pavilion will be unveiled to the public at Serpentine South on 6 June 2025 with Goldman Sachs supporting the annual project for the 11th consecutive year.

documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH welcomes Tania Coen-Uzzielli, Nicole Deitelhoff, Susanne Gaensheimer, Diane Lima, Christoph Menke, and Thomas Sparr as members of the newly founded Scientific Advisory Board.

The director of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, sent a memo to France’s culture minister Dati detailing the dilapidated state of the museum last week resulting in a visit by President Emmanuel Macron today (Tuesday).

The Kyiv Independent identified a Russian military officer and three Russian-appointed officials from occupied Crimea who were responsible for the illegal removal of artworks and artifacts from two Kherson museums in the fall of 2022.

The Dutch police released surveillance footage of the burglary at the Drents Museum in Assen, during which valuable Romanian artifacts were stolen.

French President Emmanuel Macron will next week visit the Louvre after the Paris museum's director issued a warning about the dire conditions for visitors and artefacts.

It is a dark day for the Drents Museum in Assen and the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched a new short-session game, Art Links, that invites players to identify common threads and intriguing connections between works of art from The Met collection.

Amsterdam will welcome senior leaders from the world’s largest creative cities for the 14th World Cities Culture Summit, taking place from 15 to 17 October 2025. This event will coincide with the city’s 750th anniversary, a year-long celebration of Amsterdam’s people, heritage, and vibrant culture.

The painter Jo Baer died yesterday, January 21, in Amsterdam at the age of 95. The news of her death was announced by Pace Gallery, which has represented the artist since 2019.

An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity, has joined forces with archaeologists from Bournemouth University to decipher the structure of British Iron Age society, finding evidence of female political and social empowerment.

The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) has announced that the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly, is the recipient of this year’s TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund (TMRF) in Maastricht. This annual grant, established in 2012, supports the vital work of the international art community in preserving artistic and cultural heritage.

In the wake of the devastating wildfires that have swept through Los Angeles, the Getty has emerged unscathed, preserving its iconic sites and invaluable collections. ArtDependence contacted a Getty spokesperson to understand the institution’s resilience, strategies, and vision for the future.

The Louvre is under "physical strain" due to its popularity and is also suffering from leaks and temperature variations that could damage key artworks, the museum's director warned in a letter to the culture minister published Thursday in French media.

Cultural institutions across Britain announced Turner 250, a year-long festival of special exhibitions and events. Taking place throughout 2025, the programme celebrates 250 years since the birth of renowned painter JMW Turner.

Art Basel has announced further highlights for its 2025 edition in Hong Kong, taking place from March 28 to 30 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), with Preview Days on March 26 and 27. This year's edition promises to captivate audiences with a robust mix of large-scale installations, thematic gallery presentations, and an extensive week-long public program spanning both onsite and offsite venues.

The Taipei Pingtung District Court handed down a four-year-and-six-month jail sentence to Indigenous artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung on Thursday after he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a female fan nearly four years ago in Pingtung County.

Emma Kathleen Hepburn Ferrer, the granddaughter of the iconic actress Audrey Hepburn, brings her first solo exhibition Scapegoats to Sapar Contemporary in New York.

The Rijksmuseum has received an outstanding sculpture by the Italian artist Bernini on permanent loan from a private collector.

A fresh dispute has erupted over the origins of the ancient bronze statue known as Victorious Youth, currently housed at the Getty Villa Museum in Los Angeles, with Italian cultural authorities now questioning whether the statue was created by the famed Greek sculptor Lysippos.

27 January 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where over one million people were murdered, most of whom were Jewish.

The Uzbekistan Art and Cultural Development Foundation (ACDF) chairperson and commissioner of the Bukhara Biennial Gayane Umerova and curator Diana Campbell have unveiled further names in the artist line-up for the debut edition, Recipes for Broken Hearts, including the first collaborators to join an extensive chef’s programme.

In the Spring of 2025, Fondation Louis Vuitton is inviting David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, to take over the entire building for an exhibition that will be exceptional in its scale and its originality.

The Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport have launched the UK Soft Power Council to drive UK growth and security.

Burning Man Festival announced the innovative Black Rock City Temple for 2025: Temple of the Deep by Miguel Arraiz! Arraiz is a Spanish architect living in Valencia, and the Burning Man Regional Contact for the Spain – Valencia community.

A three-story house overlooking an Auschwitz gas chamber, formerly owned by the camp's commander, Rudolf Hoss, has been purchased by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) with the aim of opening it up to visitors, the New York Times revealed on Wednesday.

The Pompeii archaeological site said Friday that a large thermal bath complex has been uncovered at the ancient Roman city Pompeii buried by 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

The Bonn Art Museum in Germany is restituting the aquarel "Blick in die Ebene (1918)" by Paul Adolf Seehaus to the heirs of the Jewish collector Louise Koppel-Stadler.

A coalition of major arts organizations and philanthropists in Los Angeles led by the J. Paul Getty Trust, including the Mohn Art Collective (Hammer Museum, LACMA, and MOCA) partnered with East West Bank, today joined with the Mellon Foundation, the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation,

The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) appointed Sara Raza as the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tashkent, set to open in September 2025.

The Swiss private bank Julius Baer is donating ‘Glacier Dreams’ (2023) by new media artist Refik Anadol to the Kunsthaus Zürich. The work, which the bank commissioned, is an immersive digital room based on vast quantities of glacier data. It will be on show at the Kunsthaus from 18 January 2025.

One of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century, George Orwell, will be honoured on a new £2 coin, The Royal Mint has revealed today.

Sotheby’s unveils the full contents of its annual Old Masters sales, spanning six centuries of artistry from paintings and drawings to rare objects. This season’s flagship auction of Master Paintings Part I is highlighted by Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ Baroque masterpiece, Annunciation.

Over 100 outsourced security guards at the world-renowned Science Museum, Natural History Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, all members of United Voices of the World (UVW), will strike again from Friday 17 January to Monday 20 January, bringing the total strike days to 22 in three months. They demand fair pay, sick leave and respect.

Art Dubai Group is pleased to announce two senior appointments to its leadership team. Alexie Glass-Kantor, formerly Executive Director of Artspace, Sydney, will take on the newly created role of Executive Director, Curatorial, leading Art Dubai Group’s artistic vision and strategy across all its arts platforms and Dunja Gottweis, former Global Head of Gallery Relations at Art Basel, will become the Director of Art Dubai Fair.

Sotheby’s will offer an exceedingly rare July 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence: The Essex Broadside, in a standalone live auction on 24 January, estimated to achieve $2-4 million.

The structure, uncovered by the Israel Antiquities Authority on the eastern slope of the City of David, within the Jerusalem Walls National Park, features eight rock-hewn rooms containing an altar, a standing stone (masseba), an oil press, and a winepress. In a new article published in the scientific journal ‘Atiqot, excavation director Eli Shukron suggests that the structure was used by the residents of Judah for cultic/religious practice.

The Watch is a biennial nomination-based advocacy program featuring 25 historic places facing major challenges such as climate change, tourism, conflict, and natural disaster.

Coinciding with the Heritage Fund’s #HeritageTreasures day, Tate St Ives has been awarded £2.8 million in funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore and reopen the historic Palais de Danse in St Ives.

A sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth will be sold at auction on 17th April 2025, offering a unique opportunity to raise substantial funds for the Bryanston Art Bursary Fund.

With the approval and full support of the Pinault family, and on the recommendation of Guillaume Cerutti, the Christie’s Board has appointed Bonnie Brennan as Chief Executive Officer, effective February 1, 2025.

The Board of Trustees of Calder Gardens announced today that the new cultural destination on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will open in September 2025 and that curator, educator, and arts programmer Juana Berrío has been appointed as the Marsha Perelman Senior Director of Programs.

The prestigious Kaiserring of the city of Goslar 2025 is awarded to the sculptor Katharina Fritsch, whose work questions traditional role models. The unendowed Kaiserring is considered one of the most important international awards for modern art. The award ceremony is scheduled for October 11.

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts (RMFAB) welcomed 705,450 visitors in 2024. They remain the country's leading museums with their 4 museums spread over 3 geographical areas of Brussels: Magritte Museum, Wiertz Museum, Meunier Museum and Old Masters Museum.

The Church in Sag Harbour, NY, is opened an exhibition of important typewriters from the collection of actor Tom Hanks.

Igor Grubic (Zagreb, 1969) has been active as a multimedia artist since the early nineties. His work includes site-specific interventions in public space, photography and film. He represented Croatia at the 58th Venice Biennale.

An ancient Roman statue of great importance and beauty—a depiction of the Greek goddess Athena from the early 1st century CE—has been acquired by Halsted A&A Foundation, it was announced today.

Marian Goodman Gallery announced that Julie Mehretu has been awarded the rank of Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.

On Saturday, 18 January at 4 p.m., the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 will be officially opened with a ceremony in the Chemnitz Opera House.

Throughout 2025 the National Trust has announced it will display Luke Jerram’s newest sculpture, Helios, at locations in England, Wales and Northen Ireland. The Trust aims to make this dazzling new artwork as accessible to as many people as possible over the next year.

Toscani, the art director for Benetton from 1982 to 2000 revealed in August he suffered from the deadly disease amyloidosis.

After years of preparation, New Taipei City’s first public art museum, the New Taipei City Art Museum (NTCAM), will open on April 25, 2025.

Four photos by Sally Mann were removed from the walls of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas this week and the Fort Worth Police department is investigating after officials raised allegations of child pornography.

The Public Establishment of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie – Valéry Giscard d’Estaing received 4,949,835 visitors in 2024, a year marked by the success of its temporary exhibitions as well as by the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.

2025 will be a year of numerous exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw—including an extensive presentation of the museum’s own collection.

A masked activist destroyed a statue of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Mexico City’s Wax Museum on Tuesday night.

A monastery with a colorful mosaic floor and a Greek inscription, a sophisticated winepress and other buildings were discovered in Israel in an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority, conducted as part of the Israel Land Authority's development works for the establishment of "Karmey Gat North” neighborhood. "This is the largest and most significant site discovered in the region from the Roman and Byzantine periods," say the researchers.

Art on the Underground’s programme for 2025 comprises major new works from four contemporary artists

The De Pont Museum acquired two works from the iconic series Las Delicias (1996-1998) by Colombian artist Beatriz González: Las Delicias 12 and Las Delicias 13.

The Museo Picasso Málaga in collaboration with the Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation (FABA), together with the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Regional Government of Andalusia, the sponsorship of Fundación Unicaja and the collaboration of the Board of Trustees of the Alhambra and Generalife, are presenting the exhibition Reflections. Picasso / Koons at the Alhambra, which will be on display in the city of Granada until 16 March 2025.

A brush fire started late Tuesday morning in the Pacific Palisades, fueled by extremely high winds.

Heritage Auctions set numerous records in 2024, led by the most successful Sports auction ever held over the summer, a $61.9 million grand slam, followed just a few months later by the record-setting Entertainment event that strutted down the Yellow Brick Road to a $38.6 million finish.

The Chinese artist Ye Yongqing has been convicted for plagiarizing the works of Belgian painter Christian Silvain.

Getty Images Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GETY) and Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) announced that they entered into a definitive merger agreement to combine in a merger of equals transaction, creating a premier visual content company.

For the exhibition Badru Temitayo. We are gods, the Nigerian artist Badru Temitayo Taofeek (1983) draws inspiration from African history, myths and folklore.

Due to the fire in Los Angeles, caretaker Minister of Culture, Nayden Todorov, has sent a letter to the management of the Getty Museum requesting that the exhibits from Bulgaria, including the Panagyurishte Gold Treasure, be secured in a safe location.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh announced today that Mario R. Rossero has been named the new director of The Andy Warhol Museum and vice president of Carnegie Museums.

On 7 January 2015, 10 staff members of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were killed in their newsroom by two terrorists.

Wadi AlFann presents James Turrell is an exhibition surveying the work of pioneering Light and Space artist James Turrell. The exhibition will run from 16 January until 19 April 2025 and is presented by Wadi AlFann as part of the AlUla Arts Festival 2025.

A 10-year-old Israeli boy out on a school trip in Jerusalem uncovered a cross medallion between 100 and 200 years old, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Sunday.

At the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, a temple razed by fire around 612 BCE, has remarkably preserved shrines that were recovered by the Penn Museum and Iraqi archaeologists on a site excavation this year as part of the Penn Nimrud Project, one of several cultural heritage preservation and protection initiatives of Penn’s Iraq Heritage Stabilization Program (IHSP).

Step into Siena. It’s the beginning of the 14th century in central Italy. A golden moment for art, a catalyst of change. Artists Duccio, Simone Martini and the brothers Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti are forging a new way of painting.

Next spring, from 3 March to 27 April 2025, the Van Abbemuseum will invest in making the climate system in the Collection Building more sustainable.

The Climate Museum, the first museum in the United States dedicated to climate change, is thrilled to announce its new permanent location at 418 11th Avenue. The State of New York announced today it is awarding The Moinian Group and Boston Properties (BXP) a real estate development project in Hudson Yards to be designed by the architecture firm FXCollaborative. This project will provide a 24,000 square foot permanent home for the Climate Museum.

Dia Al Azzawi is the winner of this year's Great Arab Minds award in literature and arts.

The opening events for the year-long Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture will take place on 10 & 11 January 2025.

The stolen archaeological artifacts were found after several investigations by Italian police in various cities, including Rome, Perugia, Ancona, and Consenza. The investigation was also coordinated by five public prosecutor offices in Rome, Pordenone, Florence, Ancona, and Palmi.

In a stunning find, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints, creating multiple enormous trackways. Dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago), the trackways form part of a huge ‘dinosaur highway’ and include footprints from the 9 metre ferocious predator Megalosaurus, and herbivorous dinosaurs up to twice that size.

The Vatican on Monday launched the official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, a cartoon character called Luce, whose name means "light" in Italian.

For the first time, the Musée du Louvre is dedicating an exhibition to Cimabue, one of the most important artists of the 13th century.

The Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission, led by Dr. Kathleen Martinez in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), has uncovered foundation deposits beneath the southern wall of the enclosure at the Taposiris Magna Temple, west of Alexandria.

Three Downing Street visitor books are included in this December’s Cabinet Office file release. The red leather-bound volumes are the first ever released by the Government and provide a fascinating insight into eminent visitors passing through the doors of Number 10 between 1970-2003.

Researchers from Zayed National Museum have unveiled text concealed beneath an intricate decorative layer of gold leaf on a page of the Blue Qur’an - one of the world’s most well-known and recognisable Qur’an manuscripts and most important examples of Islamic calligraphy. Using multispectral imaging techniques, the team uncovered verses from Surah al Nisa’.

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is presenting the first major retrospective in Europe of Olga de Amaral, a key figure of the Colombian art scene and of Fiber Art.

December 31st marks the end of the financial year, a crucial moment to evaluate the budget policies that will influence the near future. In terms of ugly cuts to budget, the situation seems similar in all the countries with a conservative government, in the US as in Europe. In Italy, the cultural sector continues to struggle with insufficient funding, with only 0.4% of the state budget allocated to its development.

Didier Rykner, a French journalist, art historian and founder of La Tribune de l’Art, a magazine dedicated to preserving France’s heritage, has described the idea of replacing the windows as “totally ludicrous”. He has launched a petition against the plan that has already more then 250,000 signatures.

The "Next" exhibition series, organized by the Amici dei Musei Siciliani association to commemorate the theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis of Assisi, celebrated its 15th edition with an artwork by Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of Europe’s most renowned Italian artists and a leading figure in the Arte Povera movement.

Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” depicts a swirling blue sky with yellow moon and stars. The sky is an explosion of colors and shapes, each star encapsulated in ripples of yellow, gleaming with light like reflections on water.

As markets evolve and consumer behaviors shift, businesses must rethink how their brands are perceived.

Damien Hurst is a famous British artist. He has been accused of backdating works of art that were used in an NFT project. We discuss the accusations and how NFT art could fare in the current cryptocurrency rally.

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation announces And all that is in between as the title for the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, set to open from January 25 until May 25, 2025 in Jeddah, a city that has represented a meeting point of cultures for centuries.

Since the 1980s the art historian and exhibition curator, Peter Lord, has been exploring the myth that there is ‘no Welsh art’, discovering and recording Welsh art and artists.

The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Exploring the Alps, an exhibition that illustrates how 19th-century artists depicted the largest mountain range in Europe through pastels, ink sketches, watercolors, and photographs.

In perfect timing to receive the thousands of faithful and visitors who will flock to the Eternal City for the opening of the Jubilee Year – the glass “roof” of the Vatican Museums’ “Courtyard of the Corazze” entrance unveiled its new green and eco-friendly guise, thanks to the construction, in the record time of six months, of a roof system with latest-generation photovoltaic glass panels.

The first Rijksmuseum Artist in Residence is Dutch-Argentinian artist Aimée Zito Lema.

Russian researchers unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in the Yakutia region of Siberia.

Rome refilled the Trevi Fountain with water after completing maintenance works, with new limited access for visitors.

Greece has returned a total of 1,055 ancient coins which were illegally excavated and smuggled out of Turkey, in the first such repatriation between the two countries.

Closed in 2016 to comply with safety regulations, the Vasari Corridor has been fully restored. Today, the day after the restoration works were completed, it reopens again for visits with a with a special ticket. Visitors enter through the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, walk through the core of the Ponte Vecchio, and exit at the Boboli Gardens.

Activists from Extinction Rebellion (XR) protested at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on Saturday, demanding that the museum sever its sponsorship ties with ING.

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has officially denounced the swirling rumours across various news outlets and social media platforms suggesting that American YouTuber Mr Beast secured a 100-hour rental of the Giza pyramids area for filming purposes. It affirmed that these claims are unfounded and implausible.

Pierre Ciric, Esq., a New York attorney, filed a lawsuit in French court against the Paris Mayor, accusing the prestigious Carnavalet Museum, a municipal museum, to illegally hold an art collection stolen during the Vichy Regime.

A temporary export bar has been placed on the Fairhaven panels by Flemish artist De Vély.

At Sotheby’s New York, the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments—dating to the Late Roman-Byzantine period (ca. 300–800 CE)—achieved $5,040,000, surpassing its pre-sale estimate of $1–2 million.

Claire Tabouret has been selected as the winner of the competition organized by the French Ministry of Culture to design contemporary stained glass windows for Notre-Dame de Paris.

A small silver amulet, just 3.5 cm in size, with a thin silver foil with a mysterious incision rolled into it: the ‘Frankfurt Silver Inscription’.

In 2024 Christie’s experienced a strengthening of auction sales as the year progressed, together with outstanding results for Private Sales throughout.

For the first time, direct evidence of the use of psychotropic substances in ancient Ptolemaic Egyptian rituals has been uncovered: researchers have uncovered details invisible to the naked eye inside a ritual vessel dating back over 2,000 years.

Naomi Beckwith is Deputy Director and Jennifer & David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York where she oversees collections, exhibitions, publications, curatorial programs, and archives and provides strategic direction within the international network of affiliate museums.

Polish authorities have announced the recovery of contemporary artworks stolen in Poland while being transported from Ukraine’s Kyiv to Switzerland according to TVP.

The Rothko Chapel, which has been closed since Hurricane Beryl hit Houston last July, has announced that it will reopen to the public on December 17.

Archaeological research at the intersection of Erechtheion and Kallisperi Streets, near the Herodion, revealed new findings, according to the Greek Ministry of Culture.

Stephen Aragabada's previous work, Secrets, was shown in the Rodney episode of the Netflix hit series Supacell and stands out distinctly in both style and technique. He also caught the attention of American celebrity collector, Alicia Keys who described his work as “Gorgeous”. Since the acclaim, Aragbada has racked up teeming interest, bringing an excitement that anticipates the evolution of his distinct representation of Blackness in contemporary Africa.

A stack of “old papers” in an attic… but their contents could unnerve even the most composed! The Municipal Library of Besançon has revealed an extraordinary discovery: an unpublished and passionate correspondence between the painter Gustave Courbet and a Parisian adventurer, Mathilde Carly de Svazzema.

Christie’s will offer a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live auctions, Old Masters I and Old Master Paintings and Sculpture II, taking place 5 February 2025 at Rockefeller Center.

At the request of the Ukrainian authorities, the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has just granted temporary enhanced protection to Babyn Yar, the site of one of the largest massacres of the ‘Holocaust by bullets’, and to the Odesa Literary Museum. This brings the number of cultural properties benefiting from this status in Ukraine to 27.

Vatican removes baby Jesus with keffiyeh from nativity scene after backlash over its depiction of the baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh, the traditional scarf used by Palestinians as a national symbol, Catholic media outlets reported Wednesday.

Sotheby’s lays off staff members from its offices in New York, with the majority of cuts including back-office workers, junior staffers as well as specialists in various departments

In May 2025, the world’s most popular museum of modern and contemporary art will turn 25. Everyone will be invited to a birthday celebration at Tate Modern from 9 to 12 May.

Pamela Anderson’s sensational red bathing suit from Baywatch, the first Olympic solo swimming gold medal won by a British woman, and a selection of eye-catching men’s Speedos from the 1980s, are all revealed today as star items that will go on display in the Design Museum's, London, major spring exhibition on swimming.

UK Government has launched an open search today for a team to create a design masterplan to honour The Late Queen. Competition welcomes architect-led multidisciplinary teams to submit details of profile, team composition, and experience.

Redesigned wing will create world-class home for The Met’s diverse collection of 20th- and 21st-century art; address critical accessibility, infrastructure, and sustainability needs; and foster seamless connections with the rest of the Museum’s encyclopedic holdings

The website Closer to Memling offers a unique opportunity to explore the world of Hans Memling, a renowned painter of the Flemish Renaissance. This innovative project utilises cutting-edge scientific imaging techniques to provide ultra-high-resolution images of Memling's works. Closer to Memling offers a unique and fascinating visual journey into the heart of the artistic finesse of the 15th century.

Responding to an urgent and growing need for guidance on ethical stewardship of African collections in museums, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) has produced best practice guidelines for provenance research and restitution.

The institution, set up by nonprofit rights group Lambda, is the first of a kind "in all of post-communist Europe", said its director Krzysztof Kliszczyński.

The Vatican inaugurated the 2024 Nativity scene and Christmas tree on Saturday, 7 December, in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

The UK is set to share its world-leading expertise in culture, heritage and tourism with Saudi Arabia, to help the country fulfil its ambition to become a global visitor destination.

The Center Pompidou announces a donation of 50M euros from Saudi Arabia to finance its work, as part of the intergovernmental agreement signed with France in 2018.

The conservation-restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), the world-famous masterpiece by brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, began in 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent.

A record was set during the recording of a new season of the dutch TV show Tussen Kunst en Kitsch.

The UN General Assembly on Friday adopted a resolution helping strengthen the fight against the illicit trafficking of cultural property and facilitating the restitution of stolen artefacts to their countries of origin.

Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers sold Saturday at Heritage Auctions for a price somewhere over the rainbow, way up high: $32.5 million.

Thought to be the largest and one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens ever uncovered, Apex is now on view in the American Museum of Natural History.

The Pantone Color of the Year program engages the design community and colour enthusiasts in a conversation around colour, highlighting the relationship between colour and culture.

U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Mike Turner (OH-10), Brendan Boyle (PA-2), and Max Miller (OH-7) announced that their bill, the Commission to Study the Potential Transfer of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History to the Smithsonian Institution Act (H.R. 7764), passed the Senate last night and now heads to the President’s desk.

The third edition of Helsinki Biennial will showcase the work of around 35 artists and artist groups across three distinct venues this summer: Vallisaari Island, Esplanade Park, and HAM Helsinki Art Museum.

The Government Art Collection has announced that Bradford Council’s Cartwright Hall Art Gallery will host a public exhibition of artwork from the Collection, as it celebrates its landmark 125th anniversary.

The Rijksmuseum is launching the new Collection Online platform. It makes the Rijksmuseum collection more accessible than ever before, with 800,000 high-resolution art works, 500,000 books, and 800 linear metres of documentation – all in one place.

The Impact Award honours individuals whose contributions to art and culture engage their communities in innovative and impactful ways while addressing urgent contemporary issues. The dedication and commitment demonstrated by this year’s recipients in addressing pressing political concerns deserve global recognition and celebration.

In May 2023, the Turkish ambassador contacted the Glyptotek with a request for the return of an ancient bronze portrait of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. The request was based on an assumption that the portrait originated from Boubon in southwest Türkiye, from which it had been illegally excavated and traded.

Koyo Kouoh has been appointed with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to be held in 2026.

The Turner Prize 2024 has been awarded to Jasleen Kaur. The winner of the £25,000 prize was announced this evening at a ceremony presented by actor James Norton at Tate Britain, and broadcast live on the BBC News channel. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the prize.

One of the world’s finest and rarest 17th century atlases is set to go on display for the first time at the National Trust’s Blickling Estate in Norfolk, following specialist conservation.

Candida Gertler, the co-founder of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, has stepped down from her roles at various UK arts institutions amid intensifying protests against her organization's ties to Israel.

An oil painting of a Māori elder by New Zealand painter Charles Frederick Goldie became the most valuable Māori portrait in New Zealand art history.

Crypto investors with the project $PATRIOT commissioned Ohio artist Alan Cottrill to create the bronze statue after Trump was nearly assassinated in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, 2024.

The V&A and Art Jameel have announced Khandakar Ohida (b. 1993, India) as the winner of the 7th edition of the Jameel Prize, an international award worth £25,000 for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition.

Two previously unknown sketches by Belgian surrealist René Magritte have been authenticated, enriching the legacy of one of the 20th century's most celebrated artists. The Magritte Committee, the authority on the authenticity of his works, confirmed that these are genuine creations by the artist.

The Gallery of the Kings in Turin’s Museo Egizio, designed by OMA / David Gianotten in collaboration with Andrea Tabocchini Architecture, Completes November 21, 2024.

Archaeological findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries.

The city of Rotterdam has become the first in the Netherlands to return art objects from the colonial era to Indonesia.

John K. Lapiana has been named director of the National Museum of African Art and Heran Sereke-Brhan has been named deputy director.

The Groucho Club is closed amid a police investigation into allegations of “a recent serious criminal offence”.

Berlin’s culture budget is set to be cut by 12% in 2025 – an equivalent loss of around €120 million for the city’s culture sector.

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The painting The Little Cat (Le petit chat) (1888) by Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) recently came to the Van Gogh Museum for examination. Comprehensive technical investigation revealed that the painting was once part of a larger work.

The UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has decided to grant provisional enhanced protection to 34 cultural properties in Lebanon and to grant international financial assistance to support the implementation of emergency heritage measures.

The 60th International Art Exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, closed after registering one of the highest levels of visitor attendance in its history.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 30 antiquities to Mexico collectively valued at nearly $500,000.

Maryam Tafakory has received the 2024 Film London Jarman Award it was announced this evening at a special event at Soho Hotel. The award was presented by actor Rupert Everett.

Fenix will be located in the Dutch city’s harbour, in a 16,000 sqm warehouse which formerly served as an important site on the Holland America Line – a Dutch cargo and passenger line.

A marble head of a man dated from 150 CE has been repatriated to Greece by the Archaeological Museum of the University of Münster in Germany. The museum returned the artifact after concerns were raised over its ownership records by researchers.

The Johannes Vermeer Award 2024 goes to illustrator and children’s book writer Marit Törnqvist.

The Way of Life, designed by Parisian goldsmith Joseph Chaumet which traces the life of Jesus, was crushed during an armed robbery Thursday at Hiéron museum in Paray-le-Monial.

Bidding went bananas in Sotheby’s New York salesroom as 7 bidders pursued Maurizio Cattelan’s provocative Comedian way beyond its pre-sale high estimate of $1.5 million to a final price of $6.2 million.

Export bars have been placed on two geometric and patterned Roman mosaics dating back to the fourth century AD that are at risk of leaving the United Kingdom. The two mosaics have been valued at £560,000 in total.

The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) announced that Nora Burnett Abrams has been appointed the museum’s next Ellen Matilda Poss Director, succeeding Jill Medvedow after a 26-year tenure that has transformed the ICA into one of the leading centers for contemporary art in the country.

Italian authorities have seized numerous artifacts dating back to the third century BCE that were plundered from an Etruscan necropolis in the central region of Umbria, according to an announcement from the country’s Ministry of Culture on November 19.

Ian Micheal, based in Oakland, California, is known for his paintings that delve into the everyday lives of California's Black communities.

Christie’s Fall Marquee Week commenced with a series of two successful sales on Tuesday, November 19, 2024: MICA: THE COLLECTION OF MICA ERTEGUN Part I immediately followed by the 20th Century Evening Sale.

A fragment of a tenth-century Viking sword was discovered near the Frisian town of Witmarsum.

Following a selection committee organized by the Institut français, Yto Barrada has been chosen to represent France at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2026.

Creative outlets enrich our lives. Studies show engaging in artistic hobbies improves mental well-being and boosts happiness. They require little in the way of specialized tools or extensive training, allowing you to express yourself freely and easily explore your creativity.

Jonas is a world-renowned artist who has had a significant influence on the development and diversity of contemporary art from the late 1960s to the present in a variety of media, including video, performance, sculpture, and installation.

Appearing at auction for the first time in over two decades, The Danner Memorial Window, one of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s greatest masterpieces, achieved $12.48M, setting a new auction record for Tiffany Studios.

Eurojust has supported Italian authorities with the return of over 2 500 precious ancient coins, vases and small sculptures that had been illegally excavated and later sold in Switzerland.

In the Swiss town of Einsiedeln, a 17-year-old asylum seeker stormed a church service and attacked a Virgin Mary (Black Madonna) statue.

To mark the 750th anniversary of the city of Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum presents its new Don Quixote Sculpture Hall as a unique gift to the city. Generously supported by the Don Quixote Foundation, the hall comprises a magnificent indoor Sculpture Hall which provides an opportunity for the Stedelijk to spotlight works from its famous collections.

UNESCO condemns the strikes that hit several historic buildings and schools in the heart of the Historic Centre of Odesa (Ukraine), a site on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger. The Organization deployed a mission of experts to the site on Saturday.

According to the Japanese, handwriting can reflect a person’s condition. The more precise and calmer your mind, the better each symbol looks.

Newly released Bank of America art market update finds that lower auction estimates, discounts at galleries and the recent interest rate cuts are driving increased participation among collectors heading into marquee events, including the New York fall auctions and Art Basel Miami.

Aimed at improving the situation for local residents, the plan, which will enter into effect in 2025, includes bans on key safes, golf carts and loudspeakers for tourism purposes.

Kunstmuseum Basel will compensate the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur Richard Semmel (1875-1950) for a painting he sold in 1933 while in the process of emigrating.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 1,440 antiquities collectively valued at $10 million to India.

London-based photographer Steph Wilson has won first prize in the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2024 for her portrait Sonam.

A baroque tapestry has been returned to the heirs of art collector Albert Freiherr von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1879–1941).

Frank Auerbach, one of the greatest painters of our age, died peacefully in the early hours of Monday 11 November at his home in London, age 93. He is survived by his son Jacob Auerbach.

The Board of Trustees of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao approved the appointment of renowned art historian and curator Miren Arzalluz as new Director General of the Museum upon conclusion of the international selection process carried out in the past few months.

Following five years of intensive research and the re-stretching of the painting, today a team of eight Rijksmuseum conservators started removing the varnish from The Night Watch.

Walter Dahn (*1954) was an important influence on a generation of artists often referred to as the Neue Wilde, or New Fauves.

Thanks to Halloween tales and Scooby-doo specials, mummies are often thought of as scary or grotesque creatures with glowing eyes and tattered wrappings. In reality, mummified human remains offer us an incredibly personal insight into the lives of individuals who lived more than 3,000 years ago.

Nico Williams the winner of the $100,000 2024 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s richest prize for contemporary visual arts. The remaining shortlisted artists – Taqralik Partridge, Judy Chartrand, Rhayne Vermette, June Clark, and Mathieu Léger – will each receive $25,000.

The British would call them “tiny houses”: small, detached dwellings but, in this case, with extremely elegant decoration. This is the case for one of the most recent houses to have been discovered during the excavations currently underway in the Insula of the Casa dei Casti Amanti, in the central district of the ancient city of Pompeii along Via dell’Abbondanza.

The Pompeii archaeological park is to cap its daily number of visitors at 20,000 in a bid to ease pressure on the ancient Roman site amid a surge of tourists in recent months.

The Carabinieri (Italian police) has uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some of the best known names in modern and contemporary art including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol according to a pressrelease.

A portrait of Alan Turing created by Ai-Da, an AI-powered humanoid robot, has sold for $1.32 million at Sotheby's, marking the first time an artwork by a robot has been auctioned. This groundbreaking sale highlights the growing intersection of AI and art.

Daniel Spoerri died in Vienna at the age of 94, the managing director of the Spoerri exhibition house in Austria confirmed to the German Press Agency.

The Ashmolean announced that it has successfully raised £4.48 million to secure the acquisition of Fra Angelico’s exquisite Crucifixion for the public.

The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media, Catherine Martin T.D. has announced the selection of artist, Isabel Nolan, with Georgina Jackson and The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art as the curator, to represent Ireland at the 61st Venice Art Biennale in 2026.

A body has been found in the search for Sarah Cunningham who went missing in London over the weekend.

United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Berman Jerry Nowlin, Jr. (21, Huntsville, Alabama), a/k/a “Repulse” and “Zayous,” guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. Nowlin faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. Sentencing has been set for January 23, 2025.

Bakunin’s Barricade is based on a concept introduced by the anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, and the idea to use the worth of artworks in barricades in order to protect movements from state violence, as officers would not dare to destroy priceless artworks to breach a barricade.

Friday night thieves used heavy explosives to enter MPV gallery in The Netherlands, causing significant damage to the building.

The Frick Collection will reopen in April 2025, following the renovation and enhancement by Selldorf Architects of its historic Fifth Avenue home.

From 17 October 2024 to 24 February 2025, Fondation Louis Vuitton presents “Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann & …”, an exhibition dedicated to Pop Art, one of the major artistic movements of the 1960s, whose influence continues to be felt across all continents and amongst all generations.

The ancient UNESCO World Heritage cities of Baalbek in the east and Tyre in the south have been under violent Israeli bombardment in recent days.

ICOM expresses its deep concern regarding catastrophic floods which have recently been impacting communities globally, already affecting almost all continents of the world in the past year alone.

The EU will increase its support to Ukraine’s arts and culture by another €5 million.

In MPV gallery in Oisterwijk, Netherlands, two Andy Warhol screen prints were stolen following an explosion early Friday morning.

The Advisory Commission on the return of cultural property seized as a result of Nazi persecution, especially Jewish property, chaired by Prof. Hans-Jürgen Papier, decided unanimously on 6 September 2024 in the case of the heirs of George Grosz versus Freie Hansestadt Bremen not to recommend restitution of the painting Pompe Funèbre by George Grosz and the painting Stillleben mit Okarina, Fisch und Muschel by George Grosz to the heirs of George Grosz.

Creative Folkestone announced the dates for the 2025 Folkestone Triennial and revealed the themes and ideas behind the sixth edition.

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) the 18th Istanbul Biennial will be curated by Christine Tohmé.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Italy (the “ministry”) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (“CMA”) today announced that, working collaboratively, they have agreed to the transfer of a 13th-century manuscript leaf representing the letter “A” once part of a choral book located at a church near Siena.

The Penn Museum’s Penn Cultural Heritage Center (PennCHC) announced the Museums: Missions and Acquisitions (M2A) Project, an unprecedented three-year national study that will create an evidence-based framework for the future collecting decisions of U.S. museums.

Recent excavations at the north gate of the Royal Palace of Angkor Thom have led to the remarkable discovery of 12 sandstone door guardian statues.

Ashfika Rahman (35, Bangladesh) is the main prize winner of the 7th Edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. Tara Abdullah Mohammed Sharif (27, Iraq), Bekhbaatar Enkhtur (29, Mongolia), Dina Mimi (29, Palestine), Hira Nabi (36, Pakistan), Ipeh Nur (30, Indonesia), Zhang Xu Zhan (35, Taiwan) received the special prize.

Curator Dr.Robinson McClellan uncovered a previously unknown waltz written in the hand of composer Frédéric Chopin in The Morgan Library & Museum’s collection.

As the oldest modern art fair in the world, ART COLOGNE has been a pivotal force in the art market since its founding in 1967. ART Cologne established a blueprint that influenced the global art fair landscape we know today.

A statue of Emmeline Pankhust, the suffragette leader, in Manchester got the Just Stop Oil treatment today with a speech bubble and high viz vest. Just Stop Oil is demanding that the UK government work with others to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.

A new mural by renowned British artist and Turner Prize 2024 nominee Claudette Johnson has launched at Brixton Underground station as part of Transport for London's (TfL) Art on the Underground programme.

A passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that occurred in AD 1197, during which a body was thrown into a well at Sverresborg Castle, outside Trondheim in central Norway, likely as an attempt to poison the main water source for the local inhabitants.

The Clark Art Institute has received one of the largest gifts in its history from the foundation of the late philanthropist Aso O. Tavitian.

In December 2019, Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian captivated the world in its debut at Art Basel Miami Beach. Comprised of a banana fastened with duct tape to a wall, the artwork quickly erupted into a viral global sensation that left a lasting impact on the contemporary cultural consciousness.

Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EDR) (“Endeavor” or the “Company”), a global sports and entertainment company, today announced that it has commenced a review and potential sale of certain events within its IMG portfolio, including but not limited to Frieze, the world’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art.

MUNCH announced the inauguration of the MUNCH Award, honouring artistic freedom of expression – awarded for the first time to Rosana Paulino (b. 1967).

Police in Poland are searching for unknown perpetrators who appear to have found a hoard of over 100 Bronze Age objects during an illegal dig and then left them outside a local historical society. The items, which include 3,000-year-old jewellery and weapons, are now in the possession of the authorities.

The National Gallery of Australia unveils Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros, the immersive sculpture based on the ancient image of the snake eating its own tail is set to welcome visitors to the National Gallery for generations to come.

842,800 euros for a pair of paintings by the famous Renaissance artist at Dorotheum auction.

The Bodleian Libraries are announcing the discovery of previously unknown engravings on the reverse of a series of copper plates, which are thought to be the earliest engravings by the poet and artist William Blake.

A ground-breaking discovery of a secret tomb at one of the new seven wonders of the world has been made by a team of researchers, including academics from the University of St Andrews.

Five works are returned to the heirs of the owners of the Matthiesen Gallery and one work remains in the Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin.

A team of archaeologists has unveiled significant findings related to the Bronze Age at the Vuon Chuoi Archaeological Site, located in Lai Xa Hamlet, Kim Chung Commune, Hoai Duc District, Hanoi Vietnamnet reports.

President Joseph R. Biden will presented the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts on Monday, October 21, 2024 at the White House.

Collectors Jan Dees and René van der Star have donated to the Rijksmuseum a wide-ranging and world-class collection of modern Japanese lacquer comprising 90 objects. They previously donated their kimono collection, seven room dividers and their collection of Southeast Asian fabrics to the Rijksmuseum and the Royal Asian Art Society in the Netherlands.

The four international artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025 are today revealed as Cristina De Middel, Rahim Fortune, Tarrah Krajnak and Lindokuhle Sobekwa.

The V&A announced that its new working store and free visitor attraction, designed by world-renowned architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, V&A East Storehouse, will open to everyone on 31 May 2025, as part of East Bank, the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

The Dutch foundation Over Holland has involved itself in American politics by placing a striking advertisement in The New York Times.

The European Cartoon Award, one of the biggest and most prestigious awards for political cartoons published in Europe, announced the name of its Winner, Runners-up and Honorable Mentions.

Following recent incidents within the Gallery it is now necessary to introduce increased security measures to ensure the safety of all who visit, National Gallery staff and the nation’s collection of paintings.

A sister painting of Turner's ‘Venice from the Canale delle Giudecca with the Church of Santa Maria della Salute’ has been discovered in Vienna. This scientific result was announced today. In a comprehensive publication, experts explain the art-historical background and scientific image analysis. It is planned to sell Turner's masterpiece.

Philippe Vanderpoorten is a passionate Belgian collector of African tribal art, particularly from Congo. Philippe's fascination with the continent's rich cultural heritage started at an early age. His years spent living in South Africa further deepened his connection to African traditions.

Archaeologists from the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and the University of Münster have discovered the remains of a previously unknown early Christian church in the ancient city of Artaxata.

Thanks to the precious contribution of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums, and after delicate restoration works that lasted almost five years. the celebrated and priceless sculpture dating back to the early decades of the second century, is now open to public viewing again.

The museum, which will feature more than 100,000 ancient artifacts, has had its launch delayed multiple times due to various factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

The portrait of Gordina de Groot, painted in 1885 in Nuenen, was purchased for 8.6 million euros from a British collector.

French Haitian artist Gaëlle Choisne has won France's most prestigious contemporary art prize, the Prix Marcel Duchamp.

A new report from the research group Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO) reveals that UNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserves and UNESCO World Heritage Sites are under threat by the expansive ambitions of the fossil fuel industry.

The National Gallery of Art announced that Darren Walker has been elected as the institution’s president.

The $1.49 million Iron Throne ruled them all as Jon Snow’s sword Longclaw and Night’s Watch ensemble, Jaime Lannister’s armor, Daenerys’ costumes, maps and so much more sparked countless bidding wars.

The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, is raising funds to purchase a painting of the crucifixion by the Renaissance Master Fra Angelico dating to the 1420s which, due to its cultural and art historical importance, has been barred from export and is at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic buyer is found. 'The Crucifixion' has been in a private British collection for over 200 years and is valued at over £5 million for the open market. The Museum has until 29 October to raise £4,481,000 to buy the painting in a private treaty sale. So far, over £3.1 million has been secured, including lead donations from major donors, a circle of over 25 supporters and a significant grant from Art Fund, with several grant applications pending.

Museum Cobra appointed Suzanne Wallinga as its new general director. Together with financial director Cor Dinkgreve, she will form the museum’s new board of directors from October 1, 2024. Her appointment marks a new chapter for Museum Cobra, in which her vision and refreshing approach will further strengthen the museum.

For the first time in its history, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is dedicating a major special exhibition to Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669). Never before has it been possible to admire such an abundance of major works by the master, one of the most important Dutch Baroque painters, in Austria. The exhibition takes a special approach in contrasting Rembrandt’s paintings with works by his brilliant pupil Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627–1678).

Princess Beatrix, “the best looking one of the whole bunch” according to Andy Warhol, attended the opening of the exhibition Queens by Andy Warhol at Paleis Het Loo on October 10th.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Art Crime Team, the New York and New Orleans Field Offices, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana today announced the repatriation of a Claude Monet pastel on paper, “Bord de Mer.” The artwork was looted by the Nazis during World War II, and the original owners and their heirs have spent decades searching for their belongings.

The Studio Museum in Harlem announced initial details about the artworks that will fill its galleries in the fall of 2025 when it celebrates the grand opening of its new home.

The complete renovation of the wing, which encompasses over 40,000 square feet of gallery space on the Museum’s south side, was designed by Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture

Rome will limit access to the Trevi Fountain during the Vatican's Jubilee Year 2025, the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri said on Monday, ahead of the possible introduction of an entry fee.

Two supporters of Youth Demand have pasted a photo of a Gazan mother and child over a Picasso masterpiece at the National Gallery in London today to demand a two-way arms embargo on Israel.

An artwork was recently discovered in a rubbish bin at the LAM museum in Lisse, Netherlands, where it had been thrown away by a lift technician who mistook it for abandoned litter. The piece, created by French artist Alexandre Lavet, consists of two meticulously hand-painted beer cans.

A joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission from Sohag and Berlin University has discovered the burial chamber of a woman named Edi, daughter of Jifai-Hapi who was governor of Assuit in Upper Egypt during the reign of King Senusret I of the 12th dynasty (1991–1778 BC).

The Shield of Magdala, an artifact of immense cultural and historical significance, was looted during the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1868, following the Battle of Magdala.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, led for the first time by Bridget Finn, will bring together 283 leading galleries from 38 countries and territories, showcasing a diverse array of contemporary and modern art.

In July, archaeologists and conservators working at the Moche site of Pañamarca in the Nepeña Valley of north-coastal Peru discovered a pillared throne room with imagery and evidence that it was used by a high-status female leader.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art launched a global open call to find an outstanding architect-led team for a world-class expansion that will transform the museum with a dynamic, open, and inviting design. The goal of the expansion is to attract new audiences and design a center that speaks to community, creating a museum for all.

Pekao Bank from Poland, the country’s second largest bank, is taking a bold approach to preserving art. Using blockchain technology, it has kept some of its most valuable artworks in an Arctic vault, and less exposed to the elements.

Neurological research has shown that looking at a real painting at the Mauritshuis activates the brain differently than looking at a reproduction of the same painting.

On 19 September, on the margins of the G7 Culture Ministerial in Naples, Italy, the Director-General of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral and Acting Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Lee Satterfield signed a grant agreement for $1 million grant through the U.S. State Department’s Ukraine Cultural Heritage Response Initiative.

Marcy Carsey, chair of the Hammer Museum at UCLA’s Board of Directors, announced the appointment of Zoë Ryan as the next director of the museum.

Police are appealing for information after a gilded icon was stolen from a Cambridge chapel.

After 55 years of championing the principles of authenticity and ethical ownership in the art world, the International Foundation for Art Research has made the decision to begin winding down operations.

The heirs of art historian Abraham Bredius, who passed away in 1946, are demanding the return of several artworks from the Mauritshuis museum. Their lawyer confirmed this following a report by NRC. The museum in The Hague allegedly has not upheld agreements regarding the exhibition of the works, which include masterpieces by Rembrandt.

The new home of MSN Warsaw on Plac Defilad will open on 25 October 2024.

Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over two of Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers paintings at the National Gallery in London in a sign of defiance after the original soup throwers, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were imprisoned for up to two years at Southwark Crown Court today.

Art isn't confined to the walls of galleries or the pedestals of museums. It flows through every facet of daily life, influencing moods, sparking conversations, and inspiring creativity. This pervasive presence of art makes it a crucial part of human experience, shaping the way people see the world and interact with it. Understanding the role of art in everyday life can open new perspectives and appreciation for the subtleties that enrich our routines.

A painting from René Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” series is estimated to sell for more than $95 million at Christie’s New York in November, an amount that would break Magritte’s record at auction

The Van Gogh Museum is exhibiting a special group of 27 drawings by Emile Bernard, one of Vincent van Gogh's closest friends, for the first time. The drawings will be on display until 12 January 2025 in a small-scale exhibition.

Mehmet Emin Sualp, a villager in Turkey's eastern Elazığ province, discovered an 84-square-meter single-piece mosaic floor depicting natural life in August 2024 while digging holes to plant saplings on a field. Experts dated the floor back to the Roman and Early Byzantine periods.

Fairs – including ARCO, Art Basel, CHART, Easyfairs, ESTE, Frieze, Liste Art Fair, Market Art Fair, Ramsay Fairs, STAGE Bregenz, TEFAF, The Armory Show, The Art Show, and Untitled Art – form new alliance.

With a goal of $2.5 billion, the Campaign for Our Shared Future is the largest campaign in Smithsonian history and represents the largest amount to be raised in a campaign by a cultural organization. It will culminate in 2026 with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Tate Britain opened an exhibition of work by the four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024: Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas

U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25), Mike Turner (OH-10), Brendan Boyle (PA-2), and Max Miller (OH-7) announced that their bill, H.R. 7764, passed the House of Representatives late last night.

In keeping with close bilateral ties and to foster greater cultural understanding, the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Archaeological Survey of India under Ministry of Culture, Government of India had signed a Cultural Property Agreement in July 2024 to fulfill the commitments made by President Biden and Prime Minister Modi to enhance cooperation to protect cultural heritage, as reflected in the Joint Statement issued after their meeting in June 2023.

Vienna-born curator Fanny Hauser has been named the next director of the Kunsthalle Zürich, taking the place of Daniel Baumann, who will be leaving the museum after ten years to work on curatorial projects independently, the museum announced. Hauser will start the new position in January 2025.

UNESCO is deeply concerned about the recent reports of possible looting and damage of several museums and heritage institutions in Sudan, including the National Museum, by armed groups. The Organization calls on the international community to do its utmost to protect Sudan's heritage from destruction and illicit trafficking.

World Monuments Fund (WMF) and Magnum Foundation are excited to debut Heritage in Focus, a special exhibition at this year’s Paris Photo, held from November 7th to 10th.

Offered at auction for the first time, the piece will be one of the highlights of the Frieze October 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 9 October 2024 at Christie's.

In response to a request from Indonesia, the Netherlands is returning 288 objects from the Dutch State Collection to Indonesia. These objects were wrongfully taken to the Netherlands during the colonial period and are of cultural interest to Indonesia.

The Board of Trustees of The Frick Collection announced the appointment of leading museum director Axel Rüger as the museum’s next Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director. He will start in the position in the spring of 2025.

Couple allegedly conspired to provide services to and receive and launder over $1 million from sanctioned Russian broadcaster; One defendant allegedly provided art and antiques to sanctioned oligarch.

In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain unveiled plans for a new landmark building.

On the 18 September 2024, the new Fourth Plinth Commission Mil Veces un Instante (A thousand times an Instant) by Teresa Margolles was unveiled on the Fourth Plinth.

A member of Tehran’s City Council has revealed that 30 priceless paintings loaned from Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum have disappeared.

Artistic freedom is under increasing political and social pressure, and within this context, MUNCH has created a new annual award of NOK 300,000 / £20,000 to recognise an artist who has distinguished themselves with courage and integrity throughout their career.

A platform hoped to unify more than 100 million object records spread across 1700 accredited museums and collections officially launched.

Christie’s has been granted a commercial licence for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and has appointed Nour Kelani as Managing Director for the Kingdom.

The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism today announced the return to the Republic of Türkiye of an ancient bronze funerary couch dating back to ca. 530 BCE.

NDA publishes first ever nuclear heritage vision and strategy, to safeguard and celebrate the history of the nuclear industry.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 14 antiquities to the people of Türkiye, collectively valued at more than $8.3 million.

Two men have been charged after a Banksy artwork was stolen from a central London art gallery, the Met Police has said.

An Egyptian archaeological mission, led by Dr. Ahmed Said El-Kharadly from the Supreme Council of Antiquities, has uncovered a series of mudbrick architectural units, including military barracks for soldiers and storage rooms for weapons, food, and provisions from the New Kingdom era.

An original print of a well-known photograph of Winston Churchill has been discovered in Italy after being stolen from a hotel in Ottawa and replaced with a counterfeit.

World Monuments Fund (WMF) has found a host of specific human factors such as war, overdevelopment, lapse in oversight, and rising temperatures to be the major factors threatening over 200 heritage sites under review for its 2025 World Monuments Watch.

Glenn Lowry, the long-time director of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), will leave the museum in September 2025.

The Roswitha Haftmann Prize honours the lifetime achievements of exceptional artists. Worth CHF 150,000, it is Europe’s best-endowed art award. Zarina Bhimji is its 22nd recipient. Previous winners have included Walter De Maria, Maria Lassnig, Robert Ryman, Cindy Sherman, Robert Frank, VALIE EXPORT and Cildo Meireles.

The Obama Foundation announced the installation of an 83 ft. x 25 ft. commissioned work of art by world-renowned Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu. The piece, titled “Uprising of the Sun,” is now featured on the north facade of the future Obama Presidential Center’s Museum Building.

From 29 November 2024, the National Portrait Gallery will present LEGENDS by Zoë Law, a new display that celebrates over one hundred individuals who have influenced the photographer’s life and career.

The Art Institute of Chicago announced a $75 million gift from Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed that will support the museum’s future campus vision.

Rebecca Horn known for exploring states of transformation and using the body as a portal to other dimensions, passed away on Saturday at the age of 80. Her New York gallery, Sean Kelly, announced her death.

Allesandro Guili was sworn in by the President of the Italy, Sergio Mattarella.

The Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) has embarked on an ambitious mission to make its archives and collections accessible online for anyone around the world who is interested.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached an agreement with the Republic of Türkiye to return a gold and carnelian Necklace (1982.413), which was probably looted from a tomb near the village of Kendirlik, Bintepeler in 1976.

After revelations of his affair with a social media influencer whom he nominated for a senior advisor role, Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano apologised to his wife and Premier Giorgia Meloni for the embarrassment he caused.

Artist Veronika Kozhushko, 18, was killed in a Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv on 30 August.

Visitors to the Rijksmuseum public gardens can enjoy two large abstract minimal sculptures by the Dutch artist Carel Visser (1928-2015).

An armed man has been shot dead by police near the Nazi documentation centre and Israeli consulate in Munich, Germany after being spotted in the area carrying a long firearm.

The Council of Europe Framework Convention on artificial intelligence and human rights, democracy, and the rule of law (CETS No. 225) was opened for signature during a conference of Council of Europe Ministers of Justice in Vilnius. It is the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring that the use of AI systems is fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

The Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) announces today details of the Bukhara Biennial, a new immersive cultural gathering launching on 5th September 2025 in the city of Bukhara, a UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art.

Gao Zhen was arrested in his studio in Beijing while he was back visiting family. According to his lawyer, he could be charged with ‘damaging the reputation or honour of heroes and martyrs’. The ruling Communist Party is tightening its grip on the narrative of history.

Pipilotti Rist will be awarded the prestigious Sikkens Prize 2024 representing a sum of 75.000 euros during a festive meeting in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and Kunsthal Rotterdam. The jury praises the leading Swiss artist for, among other things, the phenomenal way in which she uses colour in her work and how, as a pioneer in video art, she has paved the way for younger generations.

The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) Board of Trustees and its Executive Committee announced the appointment of Dominique Savelkoul as TEFAF’s new Managing Director, effective 2 September 2024.

Construction costs across Canada have significantly increased by up to 60 per cent between 2020-2024. The new Vancouver Art Gallery project has also been impacted by this unprecedented and unforeseen cost escalation.

Vincent van Gogh’s Les canots amarrés, a cherished piece of The Royal Family of Bourbon-Two Sicilies collection for over 30 years will be a highlight of Christie’s 20th/ 21st Century Inaugural Evening Sale at The Henderson on 26 September.

A temporary export bar has been placed on Le Rêve de L’Artiste, a painting by influential 18th century French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau.

On Friday August 23, 2024 three archaeological objects were officially returned to Egypt.

James McNeill Whistler's first portrait commission, Portrait of Lucas Alexander Ionides, comes to Bonhams 19th Century British and Impressionist Art sale on 25 September at Bonhams New Bond Street, London. This is the first time that the work has been on the market in nearly 60 years. It has an estimate of £80,000 - 120,000.

Over five years in the making, the move of V&A collections from Blythe House to V&A East Storehouse, a 16,000m2 purpose-built home and first of its kind in the UK to provide open public access to collections through self-guided tours and changing displays, is now complete.

The University of Notre Dame reached an agreement with the heirs of Armand Isaac Dorville (1875–1941) this summer, completing the restitution of a 19th-century drawing by the French illustrator and caricaturist Henri Monnier.

After a bidding war that lasted more than six hours, the New York Yankees jersey Babe Ruth wore when he called his shot to deep center field in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series sold early Sunday morning at Heritage Auctions for $24,120,000 to become the world’s most valuable sports collectible.

Victoria Siddall has been appointed as the new Director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, marking a significant leadership shift for the renowned institution. The announcement was made on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, following approval from the Prime Minister, and Siddall is set to assume her new role in the autumn.

London Museum Docklands (formerly Museum of London Docklands) unveiled a new artwork commission by London-based, British-Nigerian mixed media artist Caroline Chinakwe.

The Rubenshuis will reopen on 30 August 2024. From then on, all visits start at 13, Hopland, where the brand-new building is your gateway to the Rubens Experience, the renovated Baroque garden, and the library.

The upcoming London Museum, formerly the Museum of London, has made its new name and branding public.

A rare Roman gold 'cuff' bracelet found by a 12-year-old boy on a dog walk in Pagham has been acquired by The Novium Museum in Chichester, purchased with support from the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund.

The Allentown Art Museum has entered into an agreement with the heirs of Henry Bromberg, who sold works from his collection while fleeing Nazi Germany, including Portrait of George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony (ca. 1534) by Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop. The painting was purchased by the Museum from a New York gallery in 1961 and has been on view at the Museum since.

The new memorial will be the first of its scale and profile in the UK and will be located in West India Quay in London Docklands – an area whose history is closely linked with transatlantic slavery.

Archaeological work at St George’s Guildhall, the UK’s oldest working theatre, has revealed a 600-year-old doorway which may once have led to William Shakespeare’s dressing room.

The international curatorial collective "What, How and for Whom/WHW", consisting of Ivet Curlin, Natasa Ilic und Sabina Sabolovic, is the new artistic director of Skulptur Projekte 2027. The appointment of the collective thus marks a turning point in the history of the exhibition. For the first time, it is in the hands of women alone.

The Louvre announced a 22% drop in attendance from July 27 to August 11, coinciding with the two-week Olympic Games.

A temporary export bar has been placed on Alan Turing’s unpublished Second World War papers relating to his ‘Delilah’ project.

The Australian Government has acquired Archie Moore’s kith and kin. Commissioned by Creative Australia and curated by Ellie Buttrose, it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the La Biennale de Venezia 2024.

The Courtauld Gallery, located in the north wing of the Somerset House building, is home to a collection of famous paintings including a Van Gogh self-portrait.

The Ihuatzio archaeological site, founded around 900 AD, is currently being assessed for damage by IANH, which intends to conduct restoration work.

A group of artists can continue to pursue some claims that Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Runway AI's artificial intelligence-based image generation systems infringe their copyrights, a California federal judge has ruled.

Due to damage sustained during Hurricane Beryl last month, the Rothko Chapel has determined that it must remain closed to the public for an indefinite period of time.

A new Banksy artwork appearing at the London Zoo has been confirmed as the latest and final image in Banksy's surprise animal art trail across London.

Banksy on Sunday unveiled a new artwork in London, depicting a shoal of fish on a police sentry box, his seventh animal-themed piece in London over the last week.

Banksy has unveiled an eighth new London mural in eight days - showing a rhino mounting a Nissan Micra with a traffic cone on its bonnet.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

The Stonehenge Alliance has welcomed the announcement by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to cancel the £2.5bn A303 Stonehenge scheme as a “low value, unaffordable commitment”.

In a River a Thousand Streams is a major new public artwork that was unveiled at London Bridge Station on Wednesday 24 July. The 57-metre mosaic mural is the result of a collaboration between London School of Mosaic (LSoM) and AA alum Adam Nathaniel Furman, and explores themes of craft, community and collaboration.

20 Items of significant cultural importance were returned to the Warumungu community of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Australia. The permanent, voluntary, and ethical return of the items by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, a renowned museum dedicated to global arts and cultures with an emphasis on Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Indigenous Americas, was initiated by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Ivan J. Arvelo of Homeland Security Investigations, New York, announced the return of an eleventh artwork to the family of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazi regime.

The World Heritage Committee, meeting in New Delhi in its 46th session, decided on the inscription of the “Via Appia. Regina Viarum” on the world heritage list which so it becomes the 60th Italian site recognized by UNESCO.

Over the past year, the Museum recorded strong recovery of local New York City audiences, exceeding pre-pandemic figures, and welcomed its highest-ever percentage of BIPOC visitors from the United States.

Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint.

Palestinian archaeological site Tell Umm Amer has been added to the Unesco World Heritage List. Its inclusion comes after an emergency nomination due to the Israel-Gaza war. The announcement was made as part of the ongoing session of the organisation's World Heritage Committee, which runs until Wednesday in New Delhi.

Two Just Stop Oil supporters, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, who threw soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers”, have been found guilty of criminal damage exceeding £5,000.

For the first time in the history of the modern Olympic Games, the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony will take place in the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage Site: on the banks of the Seine in Paris.

The Stonehenge Alliance is shocked that a highly damaging and inaccurate amendment from Kenya to the draft decision on Stonehenge was passed at the World Heritage Committee today, albeit with some minor changes.

The Justice Department has reached an agreement with “Jasmine” Loo Ai Swan (Loo), the former general counsel of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Malaysia’s sovereign investment development fund, to recover artwork by Pablo Picasso and a financial account in Switzerland traced to funds allegedly embezzled from 1MDB.

The collection includes 76 drawings by Michael Jackson’s, including images of Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Walt Disney, Peter Pan, and Ronald Reagan.

Research in new exhibition confirms the flowers in Irises were originally not as blue as they appear today.

The eighth edition of an Operation Pandora saw customs and law enforcement authorities from 25 countries join forces against international art trafficking.

Renowned Egyptologist Zahi Hawass has announced that the "Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities and Heritage" will launch a large popular campaign in September to demand the return of Nefertiti's bust, the Rosetta Stone, and the planetarium from abroad to Egypt.

A French-Egyptian team discovered a number of rock carvings submerged in the Nile near Aswan that describe pharaohs who reigned several millennia ago.

Tate Modern today announced the first artist to undertake the Infinities Commission, a new annual commission to showcase the limitless experimentation of contemporary art.

The heritage-protected architectural icon of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld from the 1960s needs to be energetically renovated and future-proofed. The goal is to implement a package of measures that leverages the unique, historic spaces and allows for forward-looking museum work.

Over 50 paintings, drawings and sketches by artists Norman Cornish and LS Lowry will be showcased at The Bowes Museum from 20th July 2024 – 19th January 2025. This major new exhibition includes 35 rarely or previously unseen artworks by the artists who shared a strong love of the north which was the focus of so much of their work, and who have a history of exhibiting together.

Centre Pompidou Malaga will continue to operate through 2034 under a new deal signed with the city of Málaga last week.

The Natural History Museum’s transformed gardens will welcome visitors from 18 July. Fern, a brand-new bronze Diplodocus, takes pride of place in a Jurassic landscape. The gardens will also be one of the most intensively studied urban nature sites globally, as part of the Museum’s national biodiversity movement

Stephen Aragabada's work, Secrets, was shown in the Rodney episode of the Netflix hit series Supacell and stands out distinctly in both style and technique. He also caught the attention of American celebrity collector, Alicia Keys who described his work as “Gorgeous”. Since the acclaim, Aragbada has racked up teeming interest, bringing an excitement that anticipates the evolution of his distinct representation of Blackness in contemporary Africa.

The court in Amsterdam ruled on Wednesday that Dutch photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn and his wife must return a dog owned by a South African millionaire to him. The man accused Corbijn and his wife of "embezzling" the dog named Jo-Jo.

Gifted a camera by his grandfather as a boy, Thomas Hoepker had an interest in photography from the age of 14.

18 Inspirational art installations will feature artists from New York and Beyond, supporting port authority and JFK millennium partners’ vision to transform the passenger experience at JFK. Sculptures, suspended installations, wall works, and glass mosaic floor medallions will create a unique New York sense of place

The V&A has successfully raised the £2 million cost to acquire and save a rare 12th-century walrus ivory carving, depicting the Deposition of Christ from the Cross, for the nation, following a temporary export bar placed in November 2023 by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

The Saudi Museums Commission announced today the appointment of Dr Hartwig Fischer as founding director of a museum focused on world cultures, set to open in 2026 in the Royal Arts Complex situated in King Salman Park, now under construction in Riyadh.

Bill Viola passed away peacefully at home on July 12th, at the age of 73. The cause was Alzheimer’s Disease. Viola is survived by his wife and longtime creative collaborator, Kira Perov, Director of Bill Viola Studio, sons Blake and Andrei Viola and daughter-in-law Aileen Milliman.

Portrait art has long captivated audiences with its ability to capture not only the physical likeness but also the essence of its subjects. Some portraits have transcended their time, becoming iconic pieces that continue to influence and inspire. By exploring several famous portraits, we gain a deeper appreciation of how portrait art shapes our understanding of history, personality, and artistic innovation. These masterpieces offer a glimpse into the lives and times of their subjects, revealing the artistic brilliance and cultural significance behind each work.

Workers building a new bridge in Italy have found a garden that belonged to a Roman emperor 2,000 years ago. The garden’s stone walls look out over the Tiber River in Rome near Vatican City.

Young V&A has been announced as Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024. Dr Helen Charman, Director of Young V&A, was presented with the £120,000 prize – the largest museum prize in the world – by Vick Hope, broadcaster and judge for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024, at a ceremony at the National Gallery, London.

The Anne Frank statue in Amsterdam was vandalized with 'Gaza' graffiti, drawing condemnation from Dutch politicians and calls for witnesses to report the incident.

The cathedral in Rouen has been engulfed by flames as footage shows plumes of black smoke filling the sky. The spire of the Notre-Dame de Rouen Cathedral in Normandy caught on fire on Thursday, the fire is now contained.

Jim Carrey, acclaimed actor, artist and writer, will present a selection of his eclectic and captivating art and design collection at Bonhams Los Angeles on July 25 as part of the Modern Design | Art sale.

The East Wing encompasses the front façade of the historic building and features the famous central balcony, where the Monarch and members of the Royal Family have gathered for public appearances during special occasions or historic moments since 1851.

Marion Ackermann has been appointed president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz or SPK), the organization that manages Berlin’s state museums. She is now the first woman to hold the executive position.

The Austrian Ministry of Culture awards a yearly prize worth 20,000 euros for outstanding achievements in the field of museum work. This year it goes to the GrazMuseum.

Pumpkin (2024) marks a return to Serpentine for Kusama which was the location of her first retrospective exhibition in Britain in 2000. This major survey included paintings, collages, watercolours, sculptures, documentation of performances and films, all of which explored Kusama’s obsessions with dots, nets, food and sex.

This week, the two-meter statue of Hermes, discovered in Heraclea Sintica, will be moved to the museum in Petrich, as reported by the head of the excavations, Prof. Ludmil Vagalinski, writes the Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).

The figure of the Virgin Mary giving birth with her legs spread apart was supposed to open up a new perspective on the incarnation of God – in St Mary's Cathedral in Linz. The sculpture was beheaded one week ago.

A team of scientists co-led by researchers from Australia’s Griffith University, the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and Southern Cross University has discovered and dated a cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi that may be the oldest known evidence of storytelling in art, with the findings published in the journal Nature.

Paintings by artists Lee Jung-seop and Park Soo-keun that were exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) are likely to be counterfeit, according to experts.

The British Museum reopened its Reading Room for general visitors on 1 July. British Museum chair George Osborne made a commitment to reopen the Reading Room, which had been closed since 2013, in November 2022.

Sally Angel is an Emmy, BAFTA, RTS and Peabody award-winning TV and film producer. She is Creative Director of Angelica Films. She has made films and TV for Channel 4, BBC and international broadcasters and streamers including HBO and for cinema.

Six outstanding international contemporary art experts have been appointed to documenta 16's new Finding Committee, unanimously approved by the Supervisory Board upon recommendation of the Managing Director. The Committee brings together Yilmaz Dziewior, Sergio Edelsztein, N'Goné Fall, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Mami Kataoka, and Yasmil Raymond.

Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong died on Saturday at the age of 85. She was active in her career right up until she was admitted to the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam a week ago, said gallery owner Jaring Dürst Britt, who confirmed a report in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.

These publications are the result of the first two writers' residencies organised by the Museo Nacional del Prado with the sponsorship of Fundación Loewe and the collaboration of the magazine Granta in Spanish. Among the aims of the residencies is the creation of a short story inspired by the time the authors spent in the museum.

Costume and accessories on loan from Taylor’s personal archive will be on display, from customised cowboy boots worn during her breakout success as a country singer in 2007, to the jet-black ruffled shoulder dress worn in the most recent music video for her single Fortnight (2024).

The Emil G. Bührle art collection has been the subject of intense debate in Zurich for several years. The conflict is much older than the new building extension to the Kunsthaus Zürich, but it has become particularly heated with its opening in October 2021, when the collection was presented to the public.

Organisations across the visual arts have come together to provide key policy recommendations for the next UK government to enact to help sustain and support the UK’s visual arts and artists.

The Museum of Art + Light (MoA+L), a new contemporary art museum dedicated to connecting technology and art of the digital age with traditional visual and performing arts, is set to open in November in Manhattan, Kansas.

Enormous 150-million-year-old fossil is the most complete and best preserved Stegosaurus specimen of its size ever discovered.

The Dutch Restitutions Committee publishes its binding advice to restitute the painting Odalisque (1920/21) by Henri Matisse to Albert Stern’s legal successors.

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) is announced the 36th annual edition of The Art Show, one of the longest-running and premier philanthropic art fairs in the country.

A portrait of Sir David Attenborough by world renowned artist Jonathan Yeo has been unveiled, marking 40 years of Sir David’s fellowship to the Royal Society.

Seemingly, what two completely different realms of art and psychic reading have in common? However, they showcase more points of intersection than we might imagine. From tapping into the deepest layers of the subconsciousness to sharpened sensitivity to the unseen, both fields provide profound insights and impact experiences.

As an organization committed to protecting the freedom of thought, expression, and inquiry, the National Coalition Against Censorship is alarmed by the decisions of three U.S. museums—the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, and the Joslyn Art Museum—to cancel or postpone plans to exhibit artwork by Kehinde Wiley.

An Egyptian-Italian archaeological mission has uncovered early this month a group of 33 previously unknown Graeco-Roman family tombs in the vicinity of the Aga Khan Mausoleum at Aswan’s west bank. The discovery sheds light on the diseases inhabitants of that era had suffered, WAM reports.

Anish Kapoor is bringing his renowned work to Liverpool Cathedral. This marks a significant moment for both the artist and our historic building, providing an extraordinary blend of contemporary art and gothic architecture.

The Drents Museum in Assen has acquired a key work in the early oeuvre of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890).

Korean artist Choi Goen has been named as the recipient of the 2024 Artist Award at Frieze Seoul.

Interactive floral art is changing the way we experience botanical beauty. No longer confined to traditional displays, this emerging trend engages visitors through active participation.

the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung (EvSK) marks its 40th anniversary by presenting two major artworks whose destiny it has significantly influenced.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced that Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO since 2015, intends to retire from the Museum in August 2025, marking ten years as Director.

Vincent van Gogh painted Head of a Woman in March-April 1885. He was practicing painting to eventually create an intricate composition such as The Potato-Eaters. That work is considered the absolute highlight of Van Gogh's Brabant period, before he left for Paris.

James Purnell has announced his intention to move on from his role as President & Vice-Chancellor of UAL.

On December 8, Notre Dame Cathedral will reopen to the public after almost six years of restoration following the tragic fire that occurred during works inside the cathedral.

An export bar has been placed on a richly adorned table top once owned by Louis XIV, King of France. The table top, valued at £7,500,000 (plus VAT of £300,000), is at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic buyer can be found to save it for the nation.

From June 20th to July 25th, 2024, New Zealand artist Michael Dell will be showing a new series of mesmerizing abstract paintings and drawings at Ronewa Art Projects in the exhibition Distant Pictures. We chatted with Dell about the cinematic inspiration for this series, his process-led approach to art-making, and the fine details contained in the remnants of this process.

The Centre Pompidou has unveiled that Moreau Kusunoki in collaboration with Frida Escobedo Studio and AIA have won the architectural competition to complete its renovation set for completion in 2030. The DNA of the iconic Parisian structure designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers will be preserved, with an eco-responsible approach that will revitalize the complex for contemporary use over the course of five years.

Eppo Bruins will be the new minister of culture on behalf of the political party Nieuw Sociaal Contract according to the Dutch news channel NOS.

The Museum Reinhard Ernst (mre) will celebrate its grand opening on Sunday, June 23, 2024 in Wiesbaden's city center.

Iranian activist, artist, and cartoonist Atena Farghadani has been sentenced to a total of six years in prison; five years for “insulting the sacred” and one year for “propaganda against the State”.

The 3,300-year-old wreck, found a mile deep in the Eastern Mediterranean, contained hundreds of intact amphorae.

The Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Kingdom of Thailand, announced that it has initiated the return of an object—a fragment of a pilaster with Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana—to its place of origin in Thailand.

The Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, the patron association of the Kunsthaus Zürich and owner of its collection, n 5 June 2024 agreed with the heirs of the Jewish industrialist and art collector Carl Sachs on a ‘just and fair solution’ for the painting ‘L’Homme à l’ombrelle’ by Claude Monet. This is an important step in the systematic implementation of the new provenance strategy which the Kunsthaus Zürich presented in March 2023. The work is now to be sold under the terms of the amicable agreement.

This collaborative approach mirrors the interactive learning experiences in museums, fostering critical thinking and a sense of community. Sharing notes helps students compare insights, deepen their understanding, and support each other's academic growth, making learning a more engaging and comprehensive journey.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. today announced the indictments of Yincheng Wu, Grace Hu and Merces Gallery LLC, for illegally selling thousands of dollars’ worth of illegal elephant ivory through online auctions. YINCHENG WU, GRACE HU, and MERCES GALLERY LLC are each charged in a New York State Supreme Court indictment with three counts of Illegal Commercialization of Wildlife.

CDU calls for a boycott of the exhibition “Children, listen up everyone!”, Kunsthalle Osnabrück has been showing the exhibition since June 15th.

For nearly thirty years the Gallery has been inviting primary school children nationwide to focus on one painting from the collection and respond creatively, following their own questions and ideas, and this year’s programme has been the biggest yet: 300 schools took part – more than a 60% increase from last year.

A number of French art world figures have signed an open letter urging the French government to halt the planned closure of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which is due to close for a five-year period for renovations starting in 2025.

This year’s Art Basel concluded on Sunday, June 16, with impressive sales across all market segments and a total of 91,000 visitors. Maike Cruse, the new director of Art Basel, highlighted the exceptional quality of the exhibited works and the positive response from collectors worldwide.

Tracey Emin, YBA Artist, born on July 3, 1963, in Croydon, London, has been given a Damehood, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the King’s Birthday Honour list 2024.

The Kunsthaus Zurich has announced it will remove five paintings after a review of their provenance under new guidelines for dealing with artworks looted by the Nazis.

The 18th Foam Paul Huf Award goes to Hiền Hoàng (1990, Vietnam). Her work is unique for its integration of photography, sculpture, video, installations and performances.

Ukrainian artist, musician and stylist, representative of the queer community, fighter Artur Snitkus died while performing a combat mission in Donetsk region.

The temporary association noAarchitects, David Kohn Architects with Asli Çiçek may design the expansion and renovation of S.M.A.K. The design proposal includes a second museum building, for the permanent collection. The entrance to both museum buildings will be in the Floralia Hall, which will have a central role in Citadel Park.

Sarah Ganz Blythe, a highly respected curator, educator, and scholar with more than 25 years of museum experience, will be the new Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University interim Provost John Manning announced.

Pro-Palestinian protesters vandalized the House on Hicks Street, where Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak resides.

Affordable housebuilder, Orbit Homes, recently unearthed over 18,800 historical artefacts after excavations at its Calthorpe Gardens development discovered archaeological evidence dating from the Prehistoric Mesolithic, Late bronze Age-Middle to Late Iron Age, and through to early Anglo-Saxon times.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) arrived in Entebbe airport with 39 artefacts from the communities and kingdoms of Uganda that have been in the collections in Cambridge for a century or more. These artefacts have been placed in the care of the Uganda Museum on a long-term loan, where they will be the focus of a programme of research and consultation, and a major exhibition in 2025.

A painting depicting Coventry’s most iconic resident has found a prestigious temporary new home.

Curator and art historian Imara Limon (Leiden, 1988) will become head curator and member of the management team at the Amsterdam Museum as of July 1st.

The Anne Frank House has received a special donation from Jacqueline Sanders-Van Maarsen: her autograph book with a handwritten verse by Anne Frank, dated 23 March 1942. The now 95-year-old Jacqueline has carefully preserved the album with Anne’s verse over the years as a testament to their deep friendship.

Artdependence will no longer report on attacks on artworks by various activist organizations.

Anya Gallaccio has been commissioned to create The AIDS Memorial in London, due to be unveiled at the end of 2027. The news was announced today by AIDS Memory UK (AMUK), an organisation that aims to raise awareness of the continuing impact of HIV/AIDS.

The old Museum of London site on London Wall will be demolished after the government decided not to call in the planning application for review.

A former Vatican employee has been arrested in a sting operation and is currently behind bars awaiting formal charges for trying to sell back a manuscript he allegedly pilfered from the archives of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican confirmed last Thursday, after the incident was first reported in the Italian newspaper Domani.

The Van Gogh Museum has acquired Clovis Sleeping by Paul Gauguin. Clovis Sleeping is a key work in Gauguin’s oeuvre, and the first Impressionist painting by the artist to be added to the museum’s collection.

Stiftung Liste Basel has appointed Nikola Dietrich as the new artistic director of Liste Art Fair Basel on the recommendation of the search committee. She is returning to Basel after 10 years.

On June 3, 2024, after obtaining new intelligence, the Israeli military confirmed the death of Israeli hostage Chaim Peri, 79, who was killed in Hamas captivity.

A new room excavated in the central area of the ancient city is painted blue and has been interpreted as a sacrarium, a shrine devoted to ritual activities and the storage of sacred objects.

During the UNESCO conference on the Parthenon Sculptures, Zeynep Boz, the head of smuggling prevention at the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, publicly supported Greece's longstanding claim to the historic artifacts.

Known for his installations and humorous phrases, Ben was one of the great names of contemporary art in France. He died on June 5, 2024, at the age of 88.

This change, set to take effect in January 2025, marks a shift in policy aimed at bolstering galleries and art dealers in Germany.

From the modernists in Ghent to Leaps of Faith in Hasselt.

The painting “Erich Heckel and Otto Mueller playing chess” by expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) from 1913 remains permanently in the Berlin Brücke Museum after provenance has been clarified.

Fire that spread from Valley of the Cross started in 3 different locations; Employees were evacuated and no artworks damaged.

Tate announces its programme of exhibitions for 2025 across Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Tate St Ives. It includes the UK’s first major museum shows for Emily Kam Kngwarray, Ithell Colquhoun, Leigh Bowery, Liliane Lijn and Ed Atkins, a landmark survey of Nigerian Modernism, and exhibitions and commissions covering every medium from paintings, sculptures and photographs to digital installations and live performances.

The Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles is delighted to present Van Gogh’s famous “cosmic poem” Starry Night (Arles, Sept. 1888), one of the masterpieces in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay.

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is appointed Medea Sógor Ekner as the Director General, effective immediately. With extensive experience in the museum sector and strong leadership skills, Medea Ekner is well suited to lead ICOM into a new era of renewal and innovation.

Rijksmuseum researchers have discovered the true identity of an Amsterdam couple in portraits by Frans Hals: they are Amsterdam’s mayor Jan van de Poll and his wife Duifje van Gerwen. This is the only pair of pendant marital portraits of an Amsterdam couple painted by Frans Hals. Jan and Duifje travelled to Haarlem around 1637 to sit for the painting.

The sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ramses II (1279-1212 BC) has been finally identified following the re-examination of a sarcophagus found in 2009 in Abydos, Egypt, by archaeologists Ayman Damarani and Kevin Cahail.

The Board of Trustees formally voted on June 1 to approve the closure.

Selecting the ideal art school is a pivotal decision that can shape your artistic journey. As a writer specializing in education at Academized, I've gained valuable insights into this process. In this post, I'll share practical tips to help you navigate the art school selection process with confidence and find the perfect fit for your creative aspirations.

An Iraqi official says the Iraqi government’s efforts to get back historical artifacts smuggled out of the country were focused on Mosul, which was overrun by ISIS in 2014.

During Antwerp on Air gigantic inflatables will be installed in Antwerp‘s main shopping street.

Visual artist Stephanie Cime's series "Drops of I Am", is captivating audiences in Belgium's busiest shopping district with an inflatable based on her series "Drops of I Am". This body of work encourages viewers to challenge preconceived notions, embrace radical authenticity, and find beauty in imperfection. This article contains a meditation !

On 28 June 2022, a jewellery heist took place in broad daylight at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) at the MECC in Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Apex is estimated to fetch between $4 million and $6 million when it comes to auction in July.

Axel Wieder, former director of Bergen Kunsthall, will become the new director of the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art.

The Department of Antiquities of the State of Libya and the Cleveland Museum of Art announced an agreement in principle for the transfer of a Ptolemaic statue of a man to the State of Libya.

Known since 2022 as Paris+ par Art Basel, the show has been renamed to Art Basel Paris in conjunction with its upcoming move to the Grand Palais.

Archaeologists have unearthed 6,800-year-old skeletal remains in Germany, significantly older than the region’s oldest known mummy, providing new insights into Neolithic life.

Two sets of human remains, a variety of paintings, and a handful of childrens’ doodles were recently found in Pompeii, buried by a volcanic eruption in 79.

Discoveries at the site "are beginning to paint a new picture of the nature and stature of Jerusalem’s inhabitants in the Early Hellenistic Period," said Tel-Aviv University professor Yuval Gadot.

At the 62nd Members’ General Assembly in Berlin on Saturday, 25 May 2024, the Akademie der Künste has elected composer Manos Tsangaris as its president and architectural publicist Anh-Linh Ngo as its vice-president.

The FBI is investigating the sale of what are suspected to be hundreds of artefacts from the British Museum to buyers in the United States, the BBC reported on Monday.

His work, which straddles the visual arts, furniture and installation, was known and recognized throughout the world. Mr. Marc Camille Chaimowicz, artist and designer, passed away on Thursday, May 23, at the age of 77.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced the return of 133 antiquities collectively valued at $14 million to Pakistan.

Frida Kahlo Museum has denied lending clothes and jewelry to Madonna during a visit by the American singer to the Mexico.

As part of Women of Rijksmuseum research project, this summer Rijksmuseum presents Point of View, an exhibition exploring ideas around gender in Western Europe from the 16th to the 21st century through 150 works in the Rijksmuseum’s collection.

Agents of the Spanish National Police have recovered a painting by Francis Bacon valued at 5,000,000 euros, stolen in Madrid in 2015.

Fotografiska, the contemporary museum of photography, art, and culture, will relocate its New York location to better meet the needs of its visitors and expand gallery space in response to the ambitious visions of the artists it presents globally. After five years of strong ticket sales and a highly- engaged membership base, the last day in its current building will be September 29th, 2024.

This race car continues the long tradition of the BMW Art Cars. Just a few weeks after its World Premiere in the French capital, the newest edition in the storied BMW Art Car collection will compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

New research at the Nationalmuseum has shown that a painting in the collections, earlier ascribed to an anonymous artist, can now be attributed to Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt’s pupils.

Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, welcomes the return, on May 16, 2024, of two works of art belonging to the so-called «National Museums Recovery» (MNR), to the rights holders of Grégoire Schusterman.

The Madonna of the Cherries is one of the most celebrated paintings by Quentin Metsys, the father of the Antwerp school, to whom the National Gallery in London devoted a focused exhibition last year.

Taiwanese artist and filmmaker Chia-Wei Hsu is the winner of the 10th Eye Art & Film Prize (2024). In his work, Hsu probes the cultural history and geopolitics of Southeast Asia. The jury is impressed by how ‘he weaves these big themes with small, personal stories, bringing forgotten histories back to life and opening up new perspectives to his audience.’

The Albertinum in Dresden has acquired an installation by artist Markus Draper. The work "House near a large forest" was acquired for the museum by a couple living in Berlin, Draper told the German Press Agency. The starting point is the city villa in which Russian President Vladimir Putin worked as an agent at the outpost of the Soviet secret service KGB from 1985 to 1990.

In an Instagram post on Sunday, the Ghanaian artist alleged that Kehinde Wiley attacked him twice in June 2021.

A mysterious lump of a soft purple substance was discovered at a Roman Bathhouse, within the grounds of Carlisle Cricket Club, during the 2023 excavation by our archaeologists and volunteers.

The French Post Office has released a scratch-and-sniff postage stamp to celebrate the baguette.

Gunmen have killed an Afghan citizen and three foreign tourists in central Afghanistan’s Bamyan province, the Ministry of Interior Affairs says.

The artist was announced as the 2024 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize at a special ceremony at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, by Justine Simons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries for London, on Thursday 16 May 2024.

The British Museum has today announced the return of a further 268 missing and stolen objects, taking the total number of recovered items to 626.

Emile Claus, born on the banks of the river Lys in Sint-Eloois-Vijve (Waregem) on September 27, 1849, holds a significant place in art history. “ In commemoration of the centenary of his passing in 2024, we saw fit to organize an exhibition near his birthplace” says Pietro Iacopucci, Alderman of culture in Waregem.

The Biennale of Sydney has announced Hoor Al Qasimi as the Artistic Director of the 25th Biennale of Sydney, which will take place from 7 March – 8 June 2026.

Mexican artist Andrés Anza (b. 1991) has been named the winner of the 2024 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.