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 A photograph sent to Christie's online portal by an unsuspecting owner resulted in a major discovery: a previously unknown study by Michelangelo for perhaps his most famous work, the frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. 

Fundación Banco Santander will manage the Gelman Santander Collection, comprising a set of 160 works assembled by the Gelman couple between 1941 and 1998.

Qatar Museums (QM) announced the programme for Rubaiya Qatar, a new nationwide multidisciplinary contemporary art quadrennial developed under the auspices of ALRIWAQ Art + Architecture, the contemporary art and architecture institution of Qatar Museums dedicated to research, exhibitions, and public art. 

The National Gallery of Art acquired Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a rare painting from circa 1625 by renowned Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–circa 1654).

The crown of French Empress Eugenie, which was abandoned by thieves who staged a brazen robbery at the Louvre last year, is nearly intact and will be fully restored, the museum said Wednesday in a pressrelease.

In an era where visibility is often mistaken for value, Common Ground (Kortrijk), asserts that the most vital artistic truths often reside in the quiet.

Over the past two years, the Institute for Art and Law (IAL) has been working closely with the Oxford Uehiro Institute on a tool to help museums with moral decision making on questions of restitution. 

One of the most important sculpture acquisitions in the history of the Städel Museum, Gothic Madonna returns to the Altenberg Altar in the Städel.

When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new evidence from Indonesia dramatically reshapes this picture.

£1.5 billion will be invested in cultural organisations over a five-year period – turning the corner on underfunding over the last decade and more.