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.

Christie’s announces Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half will lead the 20th Century Evening Sale during Fall Marquee Week this November (estimate on request; in excess of $50 million).

Charline Tyberghein graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2018. That same year, she received the prestigious KoMASK Masters Salon Painting Award, an international prize recognizing the best master’s student in the arts.

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.

Firelei Báez, a Dominican-born, New York-based artist, is renowned for her vibrant and intricate works that explore themes of identity, diaspora, and cultural heritage. Her artistic practice encompasses paintings, drawings, and large-scale installations, characterized by exquisite detail and a vivid color palette inspired by tropical landscapes and botanical forms.

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.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), announced a $25 million gift from the Wyss Foundation that enables the MFA to re-envision its presentation of modern art for the first time in a generation.

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.

Christie’s 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale realised £81,980,050 / €97,556,260 / $107,147,925, selling 89% by lot and 96% by value. This is up 83% year on year (October 2023 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale totalled £44,641,420).

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.

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the Van Gogh Museum presents the major retrospective Vive l’impressionnisme! Masterpieces from Dutch Collections.

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.

The Sharjah Biennial 16 title, to carry, is a multivocal and open-ended proposition. The ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, is an invitation to encounter our different formations and positions and to gather a constellation of resonances.

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.

Due to unprecedented demand, The Courtauld has extended its opening hours on four dates throughout the run of The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Monet and London. Views of the Thames.

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.

A new museum devoted to generative art will open in Los Angeles next year.

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.

The Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen acquired a key work of Cubism. For the first time in over 50 years, the Pinakothek der Moderne has succeeded in permanently securing a top work of Cubism for its Modern Art Collection.

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.

Bonhams, the global auction house, has announced the relocation of its New York City headquarters from 580 Madison Avenue to the legendary Steinway Hall at 111 West 57th Street, with plans to inaugurate the new location by late 2025.

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.

Charline Tyberghein, a notable Belgian artist, graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2018. That same year, she received the prestigious KoMASK Masters Salon Painting Award, an international prize recognizing the best master’s student in the arts.

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.

The Rijksmuseum has acquired a first edition of Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, her illustrated natural history of Suriname. Published in 1705, it is Merian’s masterpiece and a high point of Dutch book production in the 18th century.

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.

Sotheby’s will auction the illuminated Shem Tov Bible, a sacred medieval manuscript, in September.

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.

Christie’s and the estate of the late Paul G. Allen, philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, are pleased to unveil full sale details of Gen One: Innovations from the Paul G. Allen Collection.

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.

The National Gallery has acquired 'After the Audience' by the British Dutch-born painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 –1912) - the third picture to be secured by the Gallery to mark its 200th anniversary year.

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.

ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company, and Sotheby’s, the global leader in fine art and secondary market luxury, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for ADQ to acquire a minority interest

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.

This autumn, the exhibition Drawing the Italian Renaissance at The King’s Gallery in London will bring together the widest range of drawings from this revolutionary artistic period ever to be shown in the UK.

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.

The National Gallery today announced the acquisition of The blue roof or Farm at Le Pouldu 1890 by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the first painting by the artist to enter an Australian public collection.

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”.

Does the best artwork receive the most money? Or is it the piece that most successfully entices me to give? When we must pay for each artwork individually, does art then become a commodity, driven by soulless and perverse incentives? - Stine Jensen

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.

The fair’s inaugural edition takes place on March 26-30, 2025 (VIP Preview March 26) at the Central Harbourfront and convenes exhibitors from around the world to present an expansive view of the photographic medium.

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.

On 18 October at Christie’s, Avant-Garde(s) Including Thinking Italian – the most important auction of 20th and 21st century art in Paris – takes center stage once again.

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.

Art Basel announced the participating exhibitors and first details of its 2024 edition in Miami Beach, taking place from December 6-8, 2024 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Led for the first time by Bridget Finn, Art Basel's stalwart fair in the Americas will host 283 galleries from 34 countries and territories presenting the best of their world-class programs, including 32 first-time participants, marking the fair's biggest cohort of newcomers since 2008.

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.

A work by the Flemish painter Quentin Metsys (1466-1530) was sold Tuesday evening for more than 12.5 million euros during at Christie's, a record for the Flemish painter.

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.

Unseen Photo Fair, the international art fair dedicated to the latest developments in contemporary photography, is thrilled to announce the 71 exhibitors of the main fair, 65 publishers of the book market and 8 Unbound projects for its upcoming edition.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has acquired a recently discovered daguerreotype of Dolley Madison - believed to be the earliest extant photographic portrait of a First Lady.

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.

Thomas Taylor's original watercolour illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, achieved a record-breaking $1.9 million today at Sotheby’s, becoming the most valuable Harry Potter item ever sold at auction. The illustration was chased by four bidders on the phone and online for nearly ten minutes before selling to applause.

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.

Escher in The Palace has acquired a unique work by Maurits Cornelis Escher. When the woodcut of a white cat was being removed from its frame, a previously unknown text by M.C. Escher himself was discovered. The text has been examined and interpreted over the past few months.

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.

Coming to the market for the first time in more than 145 years, Titian’s early masterpiece Rest on the Flight into Egypt will headline Christie’s Old Masters Part I sale on 2 July 2024, presenting a very rare opportunity for buyers to become part of the next chapter in this fabled picture’s remarkable story (estimate: £15,000,000 – 25,000,000).

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 !

The Getty Research Institute has acquired the archive of American gallerist, curator, and historian Peter MacGill.

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.

In early June, Christie’s will present an exceptional auction featuring 33 artworks from the Renault Group’s art Collection.

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.

In Ghent, Belgium, Philippe Van Cauteren, the director of the museum SMAK, is under fire following complaints of toxic leadership.

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.

Morocco recovered 117 fossils dating back about 400 million years, according to the official Moroccan News Agency.

Have you ever thought about how a computer can make art that looks like it was drawn by a person? AI art producers are at the cutting edge of a technological change that is blurring the lines between human creation and machine automation.

Untitled (ELMAR) Realizes $46.5 Million, with Strong Prices Achieved for Post-War & Contemporary Masters, Including Helen Frankenthaler, Derek Fordjour, and Noah Davis.

The first official portrait of HM King Charles III as monarch has been unveiled by Their Majesties The King and Queen in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine continues to document the damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine due to russian aggression.

The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague has decided to cancel its collaboration with the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. It is the first educational institution in the Netherlands to terminate a cooperation with an Israeli institution.

After its website was hacked, Christie's has been forced to showcase its prestigious catalogs on a temporary website ahead of a series of auctions.

Museum visitors will be able to follow the examination and restoration of Potter’s The Bull live.

Christie’s said Friday that a technology security issue has affected some of its systems, including its website, just ahead of major auctions.

French climate activists recently staged a unique protest at the famed Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles by spreading orange clay powder, calling for sustainable food for all.

British Museum launches international architectural competition to identify the team that will help reimagine its gallery space for future generations.

Two Just Stop Oil supporters have broken the glass around the Magna Carta. They are demanding the UK government commit to an emergency plan to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.

In the heart of Venice, within the historic venues of the Palazzo Mora, Palazzo Bembo, and Marinaressa Gardens, a profound exploration of human resilience unfolds during the 60th Venice Biennale.

Egypt’s antiquities authorities unveiled a newly discovered, sealed-off chamber inside one of the Great Pyramids at Giza, just outside of Cairo, that dates back some 4,500 years ago.

Newly unveiled public technology sculptures bring together people of two iconic cities, transcending physical barriers

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it has raised $550 million in private donations for the Museum’s new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, named in recognition of the couple’s historic lead gift of $125 million.

Blaise Mandefu Ayawo was one of the elders of the Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of Congo. He died in Venice at the age of 55.

Following the public commenting procedure, the committees of Documenta and Museum Fridericianum gGmbH have adopted the outstanding resolutions on the five key recommendations from the final report of the organizational development.

A work of art seen by thousands of people every year in an historic house in Norfolk has been found to be an exceptionally rare survival of a work by the inventor of colour printing, following analysis by National Trust experts.

A gold torc and a gold bracelet were stolen during a break-in at Ely Museum on Tuesday.

Seeking to "challenge the history of art," two women sprayed the words "MeToo" on a 19th-century painting of a vagina titled "l'Origine du Monde". Along with the more than 150-year-old painting, they also tagged four other artworks.

Canaletto’s masterpiece – The Stonemason’s Yard – is returning to Wales as part of the National Gallery's anniversary celebrations.

France Muséums is expanding its international footprint with significant projects, notably collaborating with the Indian government on the future National Museum of India in New Delhi.

Urban art, often vibrant and always thought-provoking, has become a cornerstone of cultural expression in modern cities around the world.

The interplay between traditional visual arts and modern film and animation is a fascinating exploration of how classical techniques and aesthetics continue to shape contemporary media. This blend not only enriches the visual experience but also deepens the narrative, allowing audiences to experience stories in dynamic and visually stunning ways.

In the realm of creativity, spontaneity is often the spark that ignites the most innovative and engaging ideas. It's the ability to embrace the unexpected, allowing ideas to flow freely and without constraint.

In today’s digital landscape, visual art in video content is not just an enhancement; it’s a necessity. The integration of compelling visual elements in videos significantly boosts viewer engagement and helps in building a memorable brand identity.

Each year, the European Museum of the Year Award goes to a museum which contributes profoundly to our understanding of the world as well as to the development of new paradigms and professional standards in museums.

On the foundations of the mining past and the old zoo of Zwartberg (Genk), Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen has been building his life's work since 2019: LABIOMISTA, an evolving artwork about the mix of life. ​ ​

Museo Nacional del Prado and Colnaghi announce a nine-month loan of Caravaggio’s masterpiece Ecce Homo to the Spanish national museum in Madrid, on behalf of the painting’s new owner. The Prado Museum will unveil the work for a special solo display from 28 May until October 2024.

Several museumgoers have been scammed via a website that closely resembled the Van Gogh Museum website, Het Parool reports.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 10 antiquities collectively valued at $1.4 million to Egypt.

Frank Stella first emerged on the scene in the late 1950s, when his Minimalist “Black Paintings” heralded a new era in postwar art.

The J. Paul Getty Museum acquired 17 drawings dating from the 16th to early 20th centuries by a range of European artists, including a pastel by Eva Gonzalès, an important nude by Edgar Degas, a rare genre scene by Guercino, and key sheets by Joseph Wright of Derby, Luca Cambiaso, Giovanni Boldini, and Odilon Redon.

Promoting an exhibition is key to attracting visitors and making a lasting impact in the art world. With a tight budget, using ArtDependence's event map to promote your exhibition is a great option.

The awards, which recognize unique licensing partnerships, were won in the ‘Best Licensed Heritage or Institution Brand’ category. The CARIUMA x Van Gogh Museum sneaker collection was awarded in the category ‘Sustainability Brand Licensed Product or Range’.

The Louvre Museum, the heart of classical art, will temporarily house a fresco by Belgian contemporary artist Luc Tuymans, the institution announced today.

The case concerned a confiscation order, issued by the Italian authorities, aimed at the recovery of a cultural heritage object, specifically the “Victorious Youth”, a bronze statue dating from the classical Greek period (300-100 BC) attributed to Lysippus.

For its milestone 100th auction, AstaGuru showcased an exquisite array of rare works from different periods of modern art. The auction included works from several revered artists who shaped the narrative of Modern art in India in 20th.

At a formal repatriation ceremony on Tuesday at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum in Naha, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Embassy of the United States in Tokyo returned 22 historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa and had been missing for almost 80 years.

Albert Street 2009 by Frank Auerbach seized from a “prolific money launderer” as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation is to be sold by the Agency.

Kunstsilo, a new world-class museum, is set to open its doors on 11 May 2024. Located in Kristiansand in South of Norway, Kunstsilo seamlessly integrates the Southern Norway Art Museum and the prestigious Tangen Collection of Nordic art.

Art Fund announces the five museums shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024, the world's largest museum prize. The  shortlisted museums are: Craven Museum (Skipton, North Yorkshire), Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee), Manchester Museum (Manchester), National Portrait Gallery (London), Young V&A - Victoria and Albert Museum (London).

The final hours of Platoare brought to light by newly deciphered passages from a papyrus scroll that was buried beneath layers of volcanic ash after the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Kim Oosterlinck has been selected as the new General Director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium through a selection process organized by "werkenvoor.be" (formerly known as Selor). He will assume the role starting on July 1, 2024.

The Chau Chak Wing Museum has removed unwrapped mummified body parts from its Egyptian galleries.

Serpentine and The Royal Parks unveiled of a new large-scale sculpture by Gerhard Richter. Situated on the plinth at Serpentine South, in Kensington Gardens, STRIP-TOWER (2023) will be staged from 25 April to 27 October 2024.

A Japanese university team says it has discovered a nearly 2,000-year old building at a site with ancient Roman ruins buried in volcanic ash in southern Italy. The team believes it could have been a villa owned by the first Roman Emperor, Augustus.

Pope Francis will be in Venice on April 28, 2024, for his first trip of the year. By visiting the Holy See’s pavilion, housed in a women’s prison, he will become the first pontiff to visit the famous Art Biennale of Venice.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached an agreement with the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum (Sweden) to return a ceramic Child’s Coffin, which was taken from the Gustavianum’s collection decades ago without authorization.

The First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska delivered a special video address at the opening of the Ukrainian pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr, today announced the return of 27 antiquities to the people of Cambodia and 3 antiquities to the people of Indonesia. The pieces, collectively valued at nearly $3 million, were recovered pursuant to multiple ongoing investigations into trafficking networks targeting Southeast Asian antiquities, including those of alleged trafficker Subash Kapoor and convicted trafficker Nancy Wiener.

Wednesday evening, Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” achieved the highest price ever paid for an artwork in Austria at auction.

During an action day supported by Europol and Eurojust and executed on 24 April 2024 in Georgia and Latvia, four Georgians suspected of stealing antique and rare books from libraries across Europe were taken into custody.

Rutland’s bronze memorial to the late Queen Elizabeth II, her first memorial statue to be erected in the UK, was unveiled in Oakham on Sunday 21st April 2024 – on what would have been Her Late Majesty’s 98th birthday.

Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2024: Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas.

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles announced it has initiated the return of a bronze head of a young man from its antiquities collection at the Getty Villa Museum to Türkiye.

Have you ever craved a sojourn that transcends mere relaxation, seeking instead a sanctuary resonant with creative spirit? Imagine a getaway where the walls themselves whisper artistic tales, where every nook is a canvas narrating vibrant stories.

Breasts, an exhibition during the Venice Biennale 2024, at ACP Palazzo Franchetti. Breasts showcases the diverse works of more than thirty emerging and established artists from around the world, spanning the realms of painting, sculpture, photography, and film from 1500 until modern day.

The exhibition Looted, personal stories about the looting and restitution of Jewish cultural property (31 May-27 October 2024) reveals the emotional impact of the theft of personal property under the Nazi regime.

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired from a private collector A Drinking and Musical Party, a lively 17th-century genre painting by Italian artist Bartolomeo Manfredi.

An imperial Chinese porcelain wine jar – categorised as a Wallonia-Brussels Federation treasure – has been stolen from the Royal Museum of Mariemont in the province of Hainaut.

The National Gallery of Art has received 166 19th- and 20th-century photographs from the UBS Art Collection—the largest gift from UBS to a museum to date.

Archie Moore's exhibition kith and kin at the Australia Pavilion has been awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for Best National Participation at La Biennale de Venezia 2024. This is the first time in history an Australian artist has received this award.

Chinese officials received 38 pieces of cultural relics returned by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office on Wednesday.

‘A welcome refugee. Einstein & Red Star Line’, the Red Star Line museum, Antwerp, will be exploring the close connection that Einstein had to Antwerp.

395 archaeological assets that were kept in Costa Rican diplomatic headquarters in Los Angeles, Miami and Washington DC, were repatriated to the country on February 24.

Thames Valley Police and Christ Church Oxford announced the safe recovery of the seventeenth century painting ‘A Rocky Coast, with Soldiers Studying a Plan’ which was stolen from Christ Church Picture Gallery on 14 March 2020, and make a fresh appeal for information about two other works taken in the same raid.

Twenty-four cultural institutions have been named as grant recipients of the 2024 Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

The non-profit organisation ‘La Jeune Peinture Belge - De Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst’ announces the laureate of the BelgianArtPrize 2025. Suchan Kinoshita was selected by the jury and is invited to create and present new work at the Centre for Fine Arts Brussels / Bozar from 24 April to 29 June 2025.

On the proposal of Ms Rachida DATI, Minister of Culture, the President of France appointed Mr. Sylvain AMIC, President of the Public Establishment of the Orsay Museums and the Orangery – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

The Met initiated the return of the Early Dynastic figurative sculpture after provenance research by Met scholars established that the work rightfully belongs to Iraq.

A Welsh Government cabinet secretary said National Museum Cardiff will not close after concerns were raised about its funding.

The internationally renowned work Saint Luke paints the Madonna by Maarten van Heemskerck originally appears to consist of two paintings. This iconic masterpiece will be on display at the first retrospective exhibition of Heemskerck in Haarlem and Alkmaar (28 September 2024 to 19 January 2025)

World Press Photo of the Year, A Palestinian Woman Embraces the Body of Her Niece photographed by Mohammed Salem, Palestine for Reuters.

A Greek wine jug looted during the German occupation of 1941 to 1944 has been returned by the German Municipality of Hanover and the August Kestner Museum.

The Israeli pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale remains closed. Artist Ruth Patir refuses to open the Israeli Pavillon until Israel and Hamas agree to a ceasefire and release hostages.

Copenhagen's historic old stock exchange building is currently ablaze as emergency services rush to dampen flames and art-lovers desperately try and salvage the priceless paintings inside.

Paris, April 15, 1874, eight o'clock in the evening, in the former studio of the famous photographer Nadar, on Boulevard des Capucines. On the 2nd and 3rd floors of the building, some thirty painters gathered to present a selection of some 165 works to the public.

The 60th International Art Exhibition, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, will be open from Saturday 20 April to Sunday 24 November at the Giardini and Arsenale venues.

A few months before the reopening of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, on December 8, 2024, the DRAC and the Mobilier national are teaming up with the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF) to present21 large-format paintings, including 13 Mays, restored as part of an exceptional project, as well as part of the choir carpet and other remarkable furniture.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s The Italian Version of Popeye Has No Pork in His Diet, 1982—which has been out of public view for almost two decades—is headed to auction next month and is estimated to sell “in the region of US$30 million.”

Swedish curator Fatima Hellberg will become General Director of Vienna’s mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig as from 1 October 2025.

A speech by Olena Zelenska, the First Lady of Ukraine, will be screened at the inauguration of the Ukrainian Pavilion, at La Biennale di Venezia on Thursday, 18th April, 16.45pm CET at the Arsenale.

Banksy is one of the most popular present-day artists. Limited editions of his works that have been acknowledged by him are extremely rare and – obviously – highly coveted.

The archaeological excavation initiated in 2023 in Insula 10 of Regio IX in Pompeii has uncovered two interconnected houses facing Via di Nola, adorned with frescoes in their interiors.

In the context of Milan Art Week, JR is presenting one of his illusory works – properly called sculptural anamorphoses – in Piazza Duca d’Aosta.

Hiscox Artist Top 100 (HAT 100) report reveals latest trends in the contemporary art market based on the volume and value of works sold at auction.

Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne fired one of its employees after it was discovered he had hung his own painting in its gallery.

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired Portrait of a Woman, a neoclassical-era portrait painting by French artist Sophie Fremiet. The painting will go on view at the Getty Center in the South Pavilion.

An Antiques Roadshow expert refused to value an object on an episode of the BBC show.

Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Gallery from 2014 to 2024 and currently the director of the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, has formally announced his candidacy in the election for mayor in Florence, scheduled on June 8 and 9, 2024.

Jack Hirons, a young Margate-based painter, is bringing the latest exhibition to the OOF Gallery at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this spring.

Marlborough Gallery has announced the closure of its prestigious galleries in New York, London, Madrid, and Barcelona. This decision marks the end of an eight decades chapter.

On Tuesday 19 March DRC-based artist collective Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) organised a special ceremony to welcome back the sculpture Balot: a carved wood ancestral power-figure made in 1931. This event marks the first time that the sculpture returns to its country of origin in more than 50 years.

Although almost nothing is known regarding the artist’s life, the date of 5 April 1474 is the first reference to Jheronimus Bosch’s existence, when he is referred to as a witness for his sister in the sale of the mortgage on a house in the small town of Geffen (The Netherlands). At that date the artist was around 24, the legal age for acting independently in a notarial document.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has named Kim Conaty the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator

This summer the gardens of the Rijksmuseum are to be the setting for the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of Korean artist Lee Ufan.

$111M expansion and renovation project will add nearly 100,000 square feet, connecting the Museum’s historic buildings, creating new galleries to display more of its expansive collection, and increasing accessibility throughout the campus

The Jury, chaired by Julia Bryan-Wilson, will award the official prizes. The Awards Ceremony will take place in Venice on Saturday, 20th April 2024.

Coming to the market for the first time in more than 145 years, Titian’s early masterpiece Rest on the Flight into Egypt will headline Christie’s Old Masters Part I sale on 2 July 2024, presenting a very rare opportunity for buyers to become part of the next chapter in this fabled picture’s remarkable story (estimate: £15,000,000 – 25,000,000).

The Kherson Art Museum has identified 96 artworks Russian forces stole during the occupation of the southern city of Kherson.

Times Square Arts presents Hot Dog in the City, a 65 foot-long public art installation by the dynamic artist duo Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw.

AB 2867 Introduced Following Recent Court Decision Allowing Spanish Museum to Retain Impressionist Masterpiece Stolen by the Nazis during WWII.

AstaGuru will present the next edition of its ‘Next Gen’ Contemporary Art Auction with over 100 works by leading and famous contemporary artists.

Activists took to Genoa’s Palazzo Ducale to protest an exhibition on Artemisia Gentileschi that has drawn criticism from various groups, who say it exploits the painter’s sexual trauma and platforms her convicted rapist Agostino Tassi.

The Russian pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale will be occupied by artists from Bolivia and other Latin American countries, the Italian edition Il Giornale dell'ARTE reported.

Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme (1880s), held at Houghton Library.

French bailiffs and police have conducted a raid of an art expert's storage facility in Paris following court orders issued in Frankfurt, Germany, and Paris, France.

The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) acquired a rare terracotta by Pierino da Vinci and a suite of four prints by Philipp Otto Runge, considered the crowning achievement of his career.

New data released today show arts and cultural industries hit an all-time high in 2022, contributing 4.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), or $1.1 trillion, to the U.S. economy.

Award confers $75,000 and platform for fall 2024 public program to Ibrahim Mahama, extending Sam Gilliam’s lifelong dedication to supporting fellow artists

Joanne Heyler, Founding Director of The Broad, announced plans for an expansion that will build upon the success of The Broad’s first decade by providing enhanced public access to the growing collection, extend The Broad’s standard-setting visitor engagement, and make possible deeper offerings in live programming.

The sculpture was described by a Cambridge City Council officer as "possibly the poorest quality work that had ever been submitted to the Council"

The groundbreaking exhibition will bring together more than sixty works by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and around eighty works by Asian and Asian-diasporic artists from the M+ Collections

Dr Nicholas Cullinan OBE has been appointed as the new Director of the British Museum, following the unanimous approval of the Board of Trustees and the agreement of the Prime Minister.

United States artist Richard Serra, known across the world for his monumental steel sculptures, has died. He was 85. The artist died from pneumonia at his home in Long Island, New York on Tuesday, his lawyer John Silberman told The New York Times.

Egyptian-German archaeological mission affiliated with the German Archaeological Institute, headed by Dr. Stefan Seidlmayer, succeeded in uncovering a mastaba dating back to the Old Kingdom era during its work in the Dahshur archaeological area.

Since 2 May 2023, the upper panels of the interior of the Ghent Altarpiece are being restored at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent. This is the third and final phase of the large-scale conservation-restoration campaign of the altarpiece of the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA).

Three works by Vincent van Gogh go on display today at the Rijksmuseum. The paintings, which the artist made in different periods of his life, are View of Amsterdam from Central Station (1885), Riverbank with Trees (1887) and Wheat Field (1888).

The 14th Taipei Biennial, opening in November 2025, will be curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath. Bardaouil and Fellrath state,

Berlin's Governing Mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) has called for the fall of the Berlin Wall to be seen as more than just a historical event.

The V&A has released more details on the upcoming exhibition NAOMI: In Fashion, which will explore the unequalled 40-year career of fashion model and cultural icon Naomi Campbell.

Huis Marseille exhibits Spolia, the first institutional solo exhibition in the Netherlands of the American artist Lisa Oppenheim.

From March 25 till April 16 the statue 'Silent Struggle' by the Dutch artist SAZZA can be seen in the Belgian City Ostend.

Like no other region in Austria, the Salzkammergut served as a point of transit and salvage for important works of European art history during the Second World War, including art looted by the National Socialists.

Protesters covered the steps of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with a large patchwork blanket on Sunday displaying messages of solidarity with Palestine to draw attention to Israel's war on Gaza.

Lucian Simmons will take on the role, which was established as part of the Museum’s cultural property initiatives

Liste is announced the participating galleries of Liste Art Fair Basel 2024. This year, 91 galleries from 35 countries will welcome visitors from 10–16 June in Hall 1.1 at Messe Basel. In 65 solo and 16 group presentations, along with five joint booths, more than 100 of the latest voices in contemporary art will be showcased.

‘The Black Boy’ was painted by Liverpool artist William L. Windus in 1844.

The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History could become the 22nd Smithsonian Museum, Major Jewish Organizations have expressed Support.

Mark Rothko’s Seagram Murals are pivotal works in the history of modern art and are among the most celebrated paintings in Tate’s collection. For the first time, five of these works will go on show at Tate St Ives in a new display opening on 25 May 2024.

Three formaldehyde works by Damien Hirst dated to the 1990s were actually created in 2017, The Guardian reports.

The Permeke Museum is reopening its doors to the public on March 29th.

The Spoliation Advisory Panel considered 3 claims for 3 works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens: St Gregory the Great with Ss Maurus and Papianus and St. Domitilla with Ss Nereus and Achilleus, The Conversion of St. Paul, and The Bounty of James 1 Triumphing Over Avarice, for the ceiling in the Banqueting House, Whitehall.

A model of the “Pillar of Shame,” a memorial to victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre that was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021, has gone on display in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.

The University of Southampton has completed a world-first collaboration with the National Museum of the Royal Navy exploring how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can support the museum’s vital work in preserving the nation’s maritime heritage.

From today, the Ukrainian version of the audio tour is available. This provides Ukrainian visitors with the opportunity to discover the life and work of Vincent van Gogh in their native language. The launch of the audio tour was introduced by a special video message from the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska

A mysterious 1,800-year-old Roman statue has been unearthed during car park construction work.

In a unique and unrepeatable exhibition, at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, with the support of Fondazione Bracco as Main Partner, a masterpiece by Piero della Francesca (1412-1492): the Augustinian Polyptych will be presented-for the first time in history, after 555 years since its creation.

Sofie Muller's (° 1974, Ghent) complex oeuvre displays an ongoing, profound research of the human condition and the beauty of our individual vulnerability. The main recurring themes are imperfection and psycho-physical trauma. She taps into the breaking point of the mind and body and portrays it in smoke drawings and sculptures in bronze or alabaster.

The first exhibition of the new Vienna Actionism Museum presents an overview of the 1960 s as the core period of this important art movement in post-war Austria over an area of around 900 square meters.

Archaeologists in Panama have discovered gold treasure and human remains inside a tomb built for a religious leader buried over 1,200 years ago.

For almost 80 years, 22 artifacts from Okinawa, Japan were lost to history, only to be discovered last year, tucked away in an attic of a private residence in Massachusetts.

Street artist Banksy has claimed responsibility for a new mural on the side of a north London building, after the artwork appeared overnight.

Historic England and National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), members of ARCH (Alliance to Reduce Crime Against Heritage), have released research findings on the scale and extent of heritage and cultural property crime in England.

The next artworks that will take pride of place on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square have been chosen. Lady in Blue by Tschabalala Self will occupy one of the highest profile public art spaces in world from 2026, while Untitled by Andra Ursuţa will be installed from 2028.

At the excavation site near the pier of the Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport of the University of Ljubljana, the final phase of the field research took place between November 2023 and February 2024.

Over 1,700 letters written by Piet Mondrian have been preserved. The letters offer a still largely unknown glimpse into the artist's personal life and are an invaluable source of information about his art. These letters, together with Mondrian's theoretical writings, will be published online by the Mondrian Edition Project.

On March 12, Russian Federal Security (FSB) agents and police officers raided the homes of artists and activists across the country. Many of the artists were subsequently taken in for questioning.

Themed "White Sea Olive Groves", the biennale explores main socio-political themes through temporary installations in a celebration of contemporary art.

The art market remains resilient, despite a slowdown in sales. In 2023, the market value eased, decreasing by 4% to an estimated USD 65 billion

In a truly transformative gift, philanthropist Richard Hedreen donates $300M art collection to Seattle University, along with seed money to fund an art museum.

The National Museum of Korea, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and dozens of other famous public museums will be open for couples to hold wedding ceremonies, as a part of the government’s support to lessen financial burden on young people planning to get married.

On the bastions of the Cittadella in Gozo, Tom Van Malderen has installed an object crafted from timber. This temporary exterior structure serves as both a tiny public shelter and a starting point for reflecting on the presence of objects in everyday life. The work can be seen as the artist's personal interpretation of the contemporary polyester pop-up gazebo.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the City of Paris have chosen Alison Saar, a Los Angeles-based sculpture artist, to produce an artwork that will be installed in the French capital to honour the legacy of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024.

The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) announced the curatorial team for the 2024 Asian Art Biennial. The event is scheduled to take place in November of this year.

The city of Poperinge, inspirator Koen Vanmechelen and curators James Putnam and Michaël Vandebril present the 2024 edition of Watou Arts Festival. 'Landscape of the Imagination' will take place from July 6 to September 1. Artists and poets will showcase the power of the imagination, in dialogue with each other and with several unique locations in and around the village and castle De Lovie.

The museum said it had acquired the work, Still Life with Potatoes, which dates from 1887, for an undisclosed sum to ensure it stayed in the Netherlands. It was previously on long-term loan from a private collection.

Ingrid Pollard is the 2024 Hasselblad Award laureate and receives a gold medal and the sum of SEK 2,000,000. The award also includes a Hasselblad camera by the Gothenburg-based company Hasselblad.

Some 49 gold works by 20th century Italian abstract sculptor Umberto Mastroianni on show at the Vittoriale at Lake Garda were stolen a day before the exhibit was due to close, in a one-million-euro heist.

The joint Egyptian-American Archaeological Mission unearthed the upper part of the colossal statue of Ramses II (Ramesses), the lower part of which was found in 1930, during excavations at Hermopolis Magna in Egypt’s Minya Governorate.

The Rijksmuseum has acquired the only signed painting by Gesina ter Borch (1631-1690), a member of one of the Netherlands’ most important artistic families of the 17th century.

Working in the digital realm long before it was associated with fine art, Samaras pioneered radical new modes of image making throughout his storied career, pushing and redefining the boundaries of portraiture and self-portraiture over the course of seven decades.

Police in the Catalonia region, Spain, have dismantled a criminal ring that produced counterfeit Banksy prints, uncovering the operation through irregularities in Barcelona's art market.

Pro Palestine Activists ruined a 1914 painting by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge of Lord Arthur James Balfour – the colonial administrator and signatory of the Balfour Declaration.

Hreinn Friðfinnsson, one of Iceland’s most important artists, has died at the age of 81. Reykjavík gallery i8, which has represented the artist since 1995, confirmed the news.

His Majesty the King will open the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, after giving a speech at a gathering in the nearby Portuguese Synagogue.

A symbol of resistance, hope and rebirth. This is the powerful message conveyed by the new Venus of Rags, the famous work by Michelangelo Pistoletto reinstalled and inaugurated in Piazza Municipio in Naples.

Beyond his renowned portrayals of masks and skeletons, Ensor's legacy transcends as he was not solely a masterful painter but also a prolific writer and passionate composer.

The anticipation is reaching a crescendo as Malta gears up to host its first-ever biennale, a groundbreaking celebration of contemporary art set to captivate audiences from March 13th to May 31st.

The Russian Federation plans to open a so-called liberation museum in the destroyed center of occupied Mariupol.

The Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief (MGETR) is to be made permanent, the UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced in his spring budget statement

In February, a solemn inauguration of the Gerhard Richter BIRKENAU exhibition pavilion took place at the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim.

Kulturforum Europa announced that it has awarded the European Culture Award to the creators of the temporary exhibition ‘Homosexuals and Lesbians in Nazi Europe’.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's life and work have been subject to extensive research. And now this sensation: Ketterer Kunst’s Evening Sale on the occasion of the company’s 70th anniversary on June 7 features a painting that could not be located for decades.

Archaeologists have uncovered another breathtaking treasure at the site of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, a fresco of the Greek mythological figures Phrixus and Helle at a domus near to the House of Leda and the Swan.

CIMAM's Museum Watch is very concerned with recent developments in Spain regarding two important regional contemporary art museums and their professionals.

Protesters defaced the marble bust with food and spray paint, but a spokesperson for the museum said no permanent damage has been caused.

At an event jointly convened by the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) and the U.S. State Department, a groundbreaking global report on art and cultural property restitution was unveiled by WJRO and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference).

The Pritzker Architecture Prize announces Riken Yamamoto, of Yokohama, Japan, as the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor.

Tom Stuart-Smith Studio, in collaboration with architects Feilden Fowles, has been selected to transform the landscape in front of the gallery.

Flaco was magic. At once an immigrant and a native, he seized his opportunity to make New York City his own. He meant so much to so many, who gathered in droves over the past year to watch him be his best Eurasian Eagle-Owl self. He was and remains a testament to the virtues of resilience and self reinvention.

A majority of people appreciate art for its aesthetic appeal and ability to light up spaces. Evidence, however, shows that there are numerous benefits of creating and consuming art. From stress reduction to improved cognitive processes and creativity. Here are reasons why art is ideal as a subject and a hobby.

In the flow of creative endeavors, modernity offers digitalized desires on screen that mimic canvases. Creativity is now driven by unimaginable power as digital art takes the upside. The intersection of imagination with innovation is where we dive into the influence of digital art on the contemporary art world here.

With regard to the participation in the International Art Exhibition of the Countries represented in the Pavilions of the Giardini, the Arsenale and in the city of Venice, La Biennale di Venezia would like to specify that all Countries recognized by the Italian Republic may autonomously request to participate officially.

Christie’s concluded The Collection of Sir Elton John: Goodbye Peachtree Road, a series of sales comprising more than 900 objects celebrating Elton John’s discerning eye for collecting and the impact the city of Atlanta had on his life.

In 2013, the anonymous street artist Banksy organized a month-long open-air art ‘exhibition’ in New York, called “Better Out Than In.”

The Louvre Museum announced on Thursday that it has acquired "The Basket of Wild Strawberries," a still life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin, thanks to over 1.6 million euros raised during its annual fundraising campaign.

The excavation of a medieval site at Smallhythe Place that was once used for shipbuilding has delighted archaeologists when they also came across earlier evidence of a Roman settlement.

The exhibition 'Rare & Essential' closed its doors on Sunday. Since October 31, 2023, museum MAS in Antwerp exhibited nearly 100 Masterpieces from across Flanders. This must-see exhibition attracted almost 100,000 visitors to MAS in just a few months.

The National Crime Agency has issued an alert to artwork storage facilities, warning of potential criminal exploitation of the sector by individuals subject to Russia sanctions.

A landmark new exhibition at the British Museum will explore the final three decades of the Renaissance master Michelangelo’s illustrious life and career. Michelangelo: the last decades (2 May – 28 July 2024) will delve exclusively into this significant – and arguably most demanding – period of the artist’s life, focusing on how his art and faith evolved through the common challenge of ageing in a rapidly changing world.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the artists for its 2025 commissions. Jennie C. Jones (born 1968, Cincinnati, Ohio) will produce her first multi-work outdoor sculptural installation for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. For The Met Fifth Avenue facade, Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado), a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will create four figurative sculptures—works that he refers to as ancestral spirit figures.

The Xi'an airport customs in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province recently seized a total of 494 prohibited Chinese cultural relics dating from the Han (206 BC-AD 220) to Qing (1644-1911) dynasties during outbound inspections.

Margriet Schavemaker will take up the post of general director of the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Fotomuseum Den Haag, KM21 and Escher in The Palace from 1 June 2024.

Amsterdam Art is announced the 12th edition of Amsterdam Art Week, taking place from 29 May to 2 June 2024.

The Art Not Genocide Alliance's petition to exclude Israel from the Venice Biennale.

A documentary by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop probing looted antiquities wins prestigious Golden Bear.

50 years ago, on April 15, 1874, the first impressionist exhibition opened in Paris. “Hungry for independence”, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro, Sisley and Cézanne finally decided to free themselves from the rules by holding their own exhibition, outside official channels: impressionism was born.

Texas Right to Life group is calling for a Texas university to drop its plans to publicly display "a golden statue with satanic imagery" that's meant to honor abortion and the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The German section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) has chosen the Brücke-Museum as Museum of the Year 2023. This is the most important award for museums in Germany.

Bayliss Rare Books and Spanish Tony Media are present an exhibition of original, previously unseen photographs of The Rolling Stones, taken at their decadent peak by the photographer ‘Spanish Tony’ Sanchez.

In Aix-en-Provence, France, within the walls of Bastide du Jas de Bouffan, the childhood home of the French impressionist Paul Cézanne, a mural by Cézanne, previously unknown to the art world, emerged, casting a new light on the artist's early work and his connection to the maritime world.

Manu Parekh, a celebrated Indian painter, has created a profound mark on the horizon of modern Indian art with his distinctive style and exploration of inner landscapes. Born in Ahmedabad in 1939, Parekh's artistic journey has been shaped by various influences, from his training at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai to his exposure to the philosophies of Rabindranath Tagore, F. N Souza, and Paul Klee.

On the proposal of Ms Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, the President of the Republic appointed Mr. Christophe Leribault as President of the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. He will take office on Monday 4 March 2024.

Seven original murals by famed British street art artist Banksy surfaced on several destroyed buildings in Kyiv and its surroundings in November 2022.

In the context of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto (1924), Bozar is celebrating 100 years of surrealism with a unique exhibition dedicated to the avant-garde movement in Belgium.

The statue, is approximately in height 13 metres and was created using an innovative reconstruction process, starting with the original pieces from the 4th century A.D. preserved in the Musei Capitolini.

Following the success of the special evening openings without clothing, Kunsthal Rotterdam is again organising a Naked Tour in 2024.

The V&A is seeking 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.

Seven artists have been nominated as contenders for the Fourth Plinth commissions in 2026 and 2028. Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Gabriel Chaile, Ruth Ewan, Thomas J Price, Veronica Ryan, Tschabalala Self, and Andra Ursuţa have each crafted maquettes of their proposed artworks, which are currently on view at the National Gallery until March 17, 2024.

A small watercolor that was examined for authenticity for a year and a half has been recognized by Mondriaan experts as an authentic, early work by Piet Mondriaan. It concerns a church-going family in traditional costume, painted between 1898 and 1901. The work will be included in the catalog raissoné at the National Office for Art Historical Documentation RKD in The Hague.

Tesfaye Urgessa will represent Ethiopia at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024, marking the country’s inaugural participation.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of two paintings dating to the 18th Century to the people of Peru. As alleged, the paintings were stolen from a church in Peru in February 2012 and trafficked into Manhattan, where they were consigned for sale at an auction prior to the Office’s seizure this year.

The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, expressed her reaction to the fashion show that took place today at the British Museum, in front of the Parthenon Sculptures.

The British Museum is dealing with a wave of social media activism from Chile as users inundate its Instagram, calling for the repatriation of a moai statue from Easter Island, The Guardian reported.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the co-chairs for this year’s Costume Institute Benefit, which will be held on May 6 in New York.

A $25 million gift from the Bucksbaum family—Carolyn (Kay), Jacolyn (Jackie), and John Bucksbaum—will support future initiatives of the Art Institute of Chicago, with a focus on the creation of the Bucksbaum Photography Center. This remarkable support is a lead gift in the museum’s visionary multi-year plan to expand and enhance the visitor experience.

Robbie Williams is the celebrated singer-songwriter and former member of the iconic English pop group Take That with a distinguished solo career. With a charismatic stage presence and evocative lyrics, he has brought the world together with chart-topping hits.

Researchers have mapped the life of a Stone Age man in detail. New scientific methods have revolutionised archaeology and the Swedish-Danish team of researchers at the University of Gothenburg are now able to state that “Vittrup Man”, a Stone Age man found in a bog in Denmark, travelled across a wide geographical area during his lifetime.

This painting, dated 1901, is one of just four illustrations known to have survived from the original set of 16 painted by the Detmold twins.

The director of the museum in the Puglia city of Ostuni announced he was resigning on Wednesday after being at the centre of political storm over a controversial social-media post about Premier Giorgia Meloni.

The laureate of the 500,000.00 euros commissioning grant awarded by the European Cultural Foundation for curating and hosting The European Pavilion 2024 was announced at a press conference held at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam on February 14.

Tate Modern and Hyundai Motor announce that Mire Lee will create the next annual Hyundai Commission.

On January 26, 2024, the Cultural Committee of the City of Hanover unanimously recommended that the painting "Tête de femme" by Amedeo Modigliani (circle) be restituted to the community of heirs of the Jewish writer, journalist and artist Michel Georges Michel (1883-1985).

Net Making, a group exhibition curated by Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi which draws from the practice of weaving of camouflage nets collectively as a metaphor for joint horizontal actions, will present Ukraine at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition will feature works by Katya Buchatska (in collaboration with 15 neurodivergent artists), Andrii Dostliev and Lia Dostlieva, Daniil Revkovskyi and Andrii Rachynskyi, and Oleksandr Burlaka.

After two decades of meticulous restoration work, Egypt has reopened the ancient tomb of Neferhotep, the scribe of Amun, in its former condition with the site now open as a new Luxor tourist attraction.

Interdisciplinary research team, including Kiel University, discovers archaeologically significant row of stones at the bottom of Mecklenburg Bight.

Rome’s Basilica Ulpia, the magnificent columns built under Roman Emperor Trajan, has been reconstructed using funds from a now-sanctioned Russian oligarch.

The first artwork on the moon is Fallen Astronaut, a 3.5-inch (8.9 cm) aluminum sculpture created by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck.

Historic step forwards for artist collective Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) and Lusanga (DRC), as Virginia Museum of Fine Arts confirms the loan of the sculpture ‘Balot’, a carved wood ancestral power-figure made in 1931.

Günter Brus, the last surviving co-founder of the radical Vienna Actionism movement, passed away at 85. His provocative body art performances challenged societal norms and made a lasting impact on contemporary art.

Pope Francis will travel to the northern Italian city of Venice on April 28 to visit the local Church community and the 2024 Venice Art Biennale.

Two Last Generation militants entered the Uffizi in Florence and targeted Botticelli's "Birth of Venus".

Protesters hurled soup at a Monet painting on Feb 10 in a museum in Lyon, the latest action by Riposte Alimentaire, which pulled a similar stunt on the Mona Lisa in January.

This three-year initiative starts in January 2024 and runs to December 2026. Around 5,000 murals across the UK will be recorded and photographed and make them freely available on the Art UK website. Painted murals will constitute a large part of this project, alongside sculptural murals in concrete, brick, wood, stone, tile and other materials.

Archaeologists digging in London’s financial district have discovered what they think to be the first complete Roman funerary bed ever to be uncovered in Britain.

Protesters who climb Britain’s war memorials could face three months in jail and a £1,000 fine under government plans to create a new criminal offence after incidents during pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

As The Beatles captured the hearts of millions, founding member Paul McCartney captured it all on his Pentax camera.

The organizers of Art Basel today announced 287 participants in the Swiss fair’s flagship edition, to take place June 13–16, with preview days on June 11 and 12.

The 1940s architectural marvel will receive the distinguished accolade following its restoration by the Ministerios de Cultura y de Obras Públicas de Argentina y Municipalidad de Mar del Plat

A giant dragon’s head prow – set to be an iconic feature of the Venice Biennale Arte 2024 – voyages from the arctic archipelago to the Venetian Lagoon to form part of the Nordic Countries Pavilion

The Italian Ambassador to Iraq, Maurizio Greganti, unveiled a plaque at the Basra Museum in Iraq, marking Italy's donation of a replica of the 'Bull of Nimrud' to Iraq. This contribution signifies a pivotal moment in the cultural restoration efforts following the destruction of the original Assyrian artifact by Isis-Daesh in 2015.

In 1987, the birth year of Charlotte de Cock, the then young and unknown band Skid Row first recorded their song “Floyd the Barber” at Washington student radio station KAOS.

The Austrian performance artist Flatz wants his tattoos to continue to exist as works of art after his death therefore Christie’s supports the Bavarian State Painting Collections at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the FLATZ Foundation with a charity auction.

Hollow and Broken: A State of the World, a new installation by one of Türkiye’s most influential and outspoken artists, Gülsün Karamustafa, will be presented at the Türkiye Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Amanda Ziemele will present “O day and night, but this is wondrous strange… and therefore as a stranger give it welcome” for the Latvian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia from April 20 until November 24, 2024. The Pavilion will be curated by Adam Budak, the Director of Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover and is commissioned by Daiga Rudzāte, the Head of the INDIE Culture Project Agency.

The First Supper (Galaxy Black), 2023, by Tavares Strachan is now on view in the public courtyard at the Royal Academy of Arts.

‘Ice Bed,’ Nima Sarikhani’s dreamy image of a young polar bear drifting to sleep on a bed carved into an iceberg, has been voted as the winner of Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award.

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, has announced the permanent and voluntary ethical return of royal objects to the Asante Kingdom in the Republic of Ghana.

A press conference by the Canton of Zurich has announced the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved 14th-century gauntlet during archaeological excavations in Pfäffikon, Switzerland.

Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon

Palma's contemporary art museum Es Baluard celebrated its twentieth anniversary last week with an exhibition of works from its own collection.

In 1956, Gerhard Richter painted the mural Lebensfreude (Joy of Life) in a stairwell foyer of the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden.

Vittorio Sgarbi has resigned as Junior Minister of Culture, announcing his own departure at “La Ripartenza” in Milan.

Finland's largest art museum, the Ateneum, has changed the nationality signature under the name of artist Ilya Ripin from Russian to Ukrainian, this is reported by the local media outlet Suomen Kuvalehti.

This triennial departs from Adonis' poem A Time Between Ashes and Roses. Echoing its sentiments and visions, this exhibit brings together a futurity empowered by geologic time views rather than immediate and national or territorial perspectives which illuminate contemporary human-environment divides.

The announcement coincides with the 35th anniversary of WMF’s ongoing work at the archaeological park as the organization begins a new phase of conservation efforts at Phnom Bakheng.

The Barbican announced the first large-scale public commission to be presented in the UK by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama (b.1987), opening in April 2024.

NASA's retired Space Shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late on Jan. 30 to be mated to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center where it will be uniquely displayed as if it is about to blast off.

The Council of Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods of Seville presented the Holy Week poster with great emotion 2024 Manolo Raven. The work, created by the prestigious painter Salustiano, pays tribute to the Resurrection of Christ, capturing the luminous essence of Holy Week. The poster, inserted into a light box, It is revealed as a striking and unique representation.

In August 2023, the announcement that around 2000 objects from the Museum’s collection were missing, stolen or damaged – the majority of which were classical gems and items of gold jewellery – sparked a renewed public interest in these objects.

An original John Opie painting believed to have been stolen by mobsters in July 1969 has been returned to its rightful owner after a two-year investigation by the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office.

Plans to restore Giza's Menkaure Pyramid spark controversy, as experts question the project's adherence to international conservation standards.

Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 60th Venice Biennale, today announced at a press conference in Venice the list of artists participating in the biennale.

Thanks to the Regional Museum Acquisition Fund (FRAM), the Bayeux Museum acquired a Victorian replica of the Bayeux Tapestry from the private collection of Charlie Watts (former Rolling Stones drummer)

Since time immemorial, the portrayal of women in art has often been confined to the idealised perfection of physical appearance, emphasising alluring faces associated with fertility and prosperity. However, this limited narrative failed to encapsulate the complexities and realities of women's lives.

The 16th Century painting by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most famous and valuable artworks, and is exhibited at the Louvre in Paris.

The Whitney Museum of American Art announces that 69 artists and 2 collectives will participate in Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing.

Phillips announced a new leadership structure for the company with the creation of a CEO’s Office.

The Academy of Arts awarded the 15,000 euro prize in rotation with its six sections on behalf of the State of Berlin.

Carl Andre redefined the parameters of sculpture and poetry through his use of unaltered industrial materials and innovative approach to language. He created over two thousand sculptures and an equal number of poems throughout his almost seventy-year career, guided by a commitment to pure matter in lucid geometric arrangements.

More than 30 items of gold and silver from the collections of the V&A and the British Museum are to be returned to Ghana following a long-term loan agreement.

A banner by the US street artist Shepard Fairey, based on a photograph of an injured Palestinian child crying by the Gazan photojournalist Belal Khaled, was unfurled by Greenpeace activists on the façade of the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid.

At least four employees at the Van Gogh Museum have been suspended after it was discovered that they reportedly stole Pokemon Cards during the popular exhibition.

The British Museum is for the first time partnering with Horrible Histories, author Terry Deary and illustrator Martin Brown’s bestselling book series, to engage children in its upcoming exhibition Legion: life in the Roman army.

Marie-Anne McQuay will curate the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial taking place 7 June – 14 September 2025

A new work by Sir Antony Gormley (Trinity 1968) has been installed at King’s College Cambridge. The sculpture, titled True, for Alan Turing, was commissioned by King's as a visible recognition of the life and achievements of Alan Turing (KC 1931).

According to the officials in the breakaway territory of Abkhazia, located along the Black Sea in Georgia, a destructive fire broke out at the National Art Museum.

As the 2024 presidential election season speeds up with caucuses and primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, political history curators from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will be on the road gathering materials and memorabilia to document this election cycle for the national collections.

Mass Studies’ Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South on 5th June 2024 with Goldman Sachs supporting the annual project for the 10th consecutive year.

The Flemish taxpayer acquires "De vertroostende maagd" ("The Consoling Virgin") by James Ensor for 3.75 million euros.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., and Erin Keegan, Acting Special Agent in Charge at Homeland Security Investigations, New York, today announced the return of two more artworks to the family of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazi regime.

Leaders of New York City’s cultural institutions from across the five boroughs released today a public letter to Mayor Adams strongly urging the City to invest – not cut – funding for culture.

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has been working since March 2023 with some 58 artists from around the world to realise the 18th Istanbul Biennial.

False teeth worn by former prime minister Winston Churchill are to be sold at auction.

Kunsthalle Bratislava director Jen Kratochvil resigned from his post on Tuesday.

One of the world’s highest honours in architecture – presented on behalf of His Majesty the King – the medal recognises Lokko’s commitment to championing diverse approaches to architectural practice and education.

The Museum Watch committee is following with concern the dreadful situation in Gaza and its repercussions in the worlds of art and culture—more specifically, its consequences for artists and curators who express their support for the Palestinian people.

Basel's Kunstmuseum has rejected a request to return a painting by Henri Rousseau acquired in 1940 and considered to be sold under duress. Talks are now underway for "fair and equitable" compensation.

The Louvre Museumexplains its decision by an increase in energy costs. Entering the Louvre now costs 22 euros at full price since Monday morning

The National Gallery of Art announced a historic gift of 20 box constructions and 7 collages by Joseph Cornell, one of the most important figures of 20th-century art, from Robert and Aimee Lehrman.

Getty and the Norton Simon Museum have announced the completion of a complex, multi-year conservation treatment of the nearly life-size 16th-century wood panel paintings Adam and Eve by leading German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Under the title Thresholds, the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2024 narrates history and the future from various artistic positions. Thresholds stands for the present as a place where no one can stay and that only exists because one thing has occurred and another still awaits.

The federal police of Namur, Belgium, recovered two stolen artworks last week. The stolen works are paintings by Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, stolen in 2010 in Tel Aviv.

The British Museum has expanded its collection of Rembrandt’s drawings with the acquisition of a black chalk sketch of A baby in a cap sleeping in a cradle, which has been transferred to the nation in lieu of an inheritance tax bill.

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), founded in 1805 by the artists Charles Willson Peale and William Rush as the first art school in the United States, is closing its college at the end of the next academic year. The institution’s museum will remain open.

Rare medieval wall paintings have been uncovered in a loft space during restoration of fifteenth-century First Court.

Artworks from the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle chosen to adorn the corridors of Number 10 Downing Street.

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal took France’s political and media spheres by surprise on Thursday as he named controversial politician Rachida Dati as his culture minister.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University was set to open the first American retrospective of Samia Halaby, a Palestinian-American abstract painter and Indiana University alumna (MFA 1963), IU tenured faculty (1969-72), and the first woman professor Yale School of Art (1972-82). The show “Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy” was scheduled to open on February 10th 2024, and run until June 9th 2024.

The British Museum is the oldest national public museum in the world. Its mission is to house, curate, conserve, research and exhibit a collection of world cultures.

PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) announces the names of the artists shortlisted for the 7th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. Selected from over 12,000 entries across almost 200 countries, the final list includes 21 artists and artist collectives, spanning five continents. Established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009, the Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artists all over the world.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Eleanor Nairne as the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Department Head, Modern and Contemporary. Nairne will join the PMA later this month.

Greece has reopened the restored ancient Palace of Aigai, a historic site where Alexander the Great was crowned King of Macedonia approximately 2,400 years ago.

A US appeals court ruled that Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum may keep a painting by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro that the Nazis looted from a Jewish woman, rejecting an ownership claim that her heirs have pursued for more than two decades.

Arts and Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay has placed an export bar on a 15th-century painting, ‘The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist and the Magdalen’ by Fra Angelico.

No other painter in the history of European art was able to convey the details of the visible world with the same level of brilliance and precision as the founder of early Netherlandish painting, Jan van Eyck (ca. 1390/1400–1441). Now, an interactive digital projection at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie makes it possible to delve into the most minute aspects of his masterpieces.

Douglas Boin, Ph.D., a professor of history at Saint Louis University, made a major announcement at the annual meeting of the Archeological Institute of America, revealing he and his team discovered an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman Empire.

Sotheby's and The Council of Fashion Designers of America unveil the full lineup of the "CFDA: Defining American Style" Auction.

British actress Dame Joanna Lumley, famed for her role on the BBC TV series ‘Absolutely Fabulous’, will be the narrator of Rijksmuseum’s online experience Frans Hals: Strokes of Genius. This online experience will be launched on the Rijksmuseum website to coincide with the opening of the Frans Hals exhibition on 16 February. A major fan of Dutch Golden Age paintings and the Rijksmuseum, Dame Joanna did not hesitate for a moment when she was asked to take part in the exhibition.

The joint archaeological mission from Waseda University, in collaboration with the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), has unveiled a rock-cut tomb and a myriad of artefacts spanning different historical periods during its current excavation season in Saqqara Necropolis.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) celebrates Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy with various educational opportunities throughout January.

Art prints are cherished personal acquisitions, valuable pieces of artistic expression that carry sentimental and cultural value. Thus, keeping these prints in pristine condition is not merely about maintaining their physical appearance but also safeguarding their inherent worth.

Art has always been a realm of creativity and innovation, and with the advent of technology, a new dimension has been added to artistic expression - 3D printing in art. Imagine turning your wildest artistic visions into tangible creations with the precision and detail that 3D printing offers.

Let's face it, we're living in a tech-saturated world, and guess what? The art scene is riding this digital wave too. The term "Digital Canvas" nails this thrilling mash-up of tech and art.

Roland Debucquoy, born in 1928 in a small town in West Flanders, Belgium, where he worked as a physician, but his heart and soul were always intertwined with the world of art.

Over a period of more than 19 months between August 1943 and April 1945, the hitherto unknown German Jewish author Curt Bloch produced a unique work of creative resistance while in hiding in the Netherlands: Het Onderwater Cabaret.

An exposed database lists up to 16,000 artists that the company has allegedly used to train its art-generation tools, from Frida Kahlo, to Yayoi Kusama, Banksy, Magritte, Willy Vandertseen, Hergé and Andy Warhol

Archaeologists from Cardiff University’s School of History, Archaeology and Religion carried out a dig in the summer, with further radiocarbon dating and analysis revealing the full extent of their find. The excavation offers fascinating new evidence about life in early medieval Wales (AD 400-1100) and transforms our understanding of the history of Fonmon and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Before Buckingham Palace, the soon-to-be Queen Mother sends a “very poor drawing’ made by her young daughter, Princess Elizabeth, to the creator of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie.

One of Irish artist Harry Clarke’s finest and rarest works of stained glass has become part of the national collection at the National Gallery of Ireland. Titania Enchanting Bottom, created over a century ago in 1922, now belongs to the Irish public and will be free for Gallery visitors to view in the new year. The acquisition was supported by the Patrons of Irish Art of the National Gallery of Ireland, whose membership fees support acquisitions of Irish art.

Françoise Bornet, pictured in a famous photograph by Robert Doisneau of young lovers kissing has died. She was 93.

The Frick Collection announced that Ian Wardropper, the institution’s Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director, will retire in 2025 following fourteen years of service to the Frick and a fifty-year museum career.

With the Covid crisis, Parisian museums have struggled in recent years to return to equivalent attendance levels. Fortunately, in 2022, they finally regained their lustre, with record attendances, which have risen again for this year 2023, and should improve again after the Paris 2024 Games, which expect millions of tourists in the capital.

This year scientists at the Natural History Museum have been busy documenting new species, from an ancient dinosaur to worms at the bottom of the ocean, describing an extraordinary 815 new species in 2023.

The first versions of the iconic cartoon character, seen in Steamboat Willie and a silent version of Plane Crazy, enter the public domain in the US on January 1st, 2024.

The V&A will stage a revelatory exhibition exploring the unequalled 40-year career of fashion model and British icon Naomi Campbell (b. 1970). After being scouted in Covent Garden aged just 15, she quickly rose to prominence in the industry, making history a few years later when, at 18, she became the first Black model to feature on the cover of Paris Vogue (August 1988).

Venice, Italy, will limit the size of tour groups and take other measures beginning this summer to soften the impact of tourism on the local community.

Renowned anti-apartheid photographer Peter Magubane, whose lens chronicled the turbulent history of South Africa, has passed away at the age of 91.

The Polish Minister of Culture, Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, has announced that the originally selected project 'Polish Exercises in the Tragedy of the World: Between Germany and Russia' will not be shown at next year's Biennale in Venice. Instead, the exhibition project 'Repeat After Me' will be shown.

The National Gallery announced that it has acquired the painting Lot and his Daughters (1624) by Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651), which has been on loan to the Gallery for the past four years from a private collection. This is the first painting by the artist to enter the National Gallery Collection.

A former jam factory in Lviv has been revitalised and relaunched as a contemporary art hub. Eight years of work have gone into the project which will act as a “space for meeting, learning, discussing, and sharing experiences.”

We all have our email inboxes and social media feeds so saturated with content that it’s a daily struggle to differentiate between spam and what truly interests us.

From 2 March until 23 June 2024, Damien Hirst will stage a major exhibition at Château La Coste. Titled The Light That Shines, the presentation will feature sculptures and paintings, including some of Hirst’s most iconic series and some which have never been seen before.

Artist Pope.L, who worked across the fields of performance, installation, and sculpture, died suddenly in his Chicago home at the age of 68 on December 23.

Black, carbon-based drawings have been found in southwestern France’s Font-de-Gaume Cave by Ina Reiche, Yvan Coquinot, Antoine Trosseau, and Anne Maigret of the National Center for Research and Restoration in French Museums.

Plans for the contemporary replacement of some of the stained glass windows inside Notre Dame Cathedral’s damaged interior have sparked a considerable outcry from the public a year before the Parisian landmark is set to begin reopening.

The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia appointed Carlo Ratti as Director of the Architecture Department, with the specific task of curating the 19th International Architecture Exhibition which will take place in 2025. The appointment was recommended by President Roberto Cicutto, in agreement with Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, President of La Biennale di Venezia for the four-year term March 2024-2027.

Bige Örer, Director of the Istanbul Biennial at the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) since 2008, and Director of İKSV Contemporary Art Projects since 2018, has decided to resign from her duties at İKSV as of 15 January 2024, to continue her work in different projects.

With the support of Fundación Iberdrola España, a Protector sponsor of the Museo del Prado’s Restoration Programme, the painting, an example of Caravaggio’s outstanding originality, has undergone a process of restoration to remove layers of oxidised and opaque varnish from the surface with the aim of recovering the work’s chromatic range and contrasts.

Two arrests have now been made after a road sign featuring work by secret street artist Banksy was photographed being removed from a road junction in south-east London.

It’s been a historic year at the Rijksmuseum, thanks in part to the Vermeer exhibition, which ran for four months this spring. It was the best-attended exhibition in the history of the museum. For those who would love to enjoy Vermeer one more time, today sees the launch of Vermeer, experience the exhibition from home, an online 360° tour of the exhibition.

‘Our findings from the current year completely change our perception of this settlement area in many different aspects’, says Prof. Radosław Palonka from the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University, who for more than a dozen years has been investigating historic sites and customs of the 3000-year-old Pueblo culture on the border between Colorado and Utah. His team is the only Polish and one of the few European archaeological groups to work in the region

A Raphael painting long debated by art historians features a face NOT created by the Renaissance master, according to new Artificial Intelligence analysis.

ARCOmadrid, organised by IFEMA MADRID, celebrates its 43rd edition from 6 to 10 March with the Caribbean at its centre.

UNESCO figures show that 2023 has been a particularly deadly year for journalists who work in conflict zones, with killings almost doubling compared to the past three years. The last three months of this year in particular have already been the deadliest quarter for journalists in conflict zones since at least 2007, with 27 deaths.

Collectors will find among its superpowered offerings numerous iconic covers soaring alongside key Golden and Silver Age comic books in impossibly high grades, each one as stunning as it is significant.

Wolf, an Emmy-winning producer and avid collector, is providing significant financial support to The Met with the endowment of the Dick Wolf Galleries. The two major galleries will house works from his exceptional collection of European paintings, sculpture, drawings, furniture, and works of decorative art, including rare masterpieces by artists from Botticelli to Vincent van Gogh

A rare roofed theatre, markets, warehouses, a river port and other startling discoveries made by a Cambridge-led team of archaeologists challenge major assumptions about the decline of Roman Italy.

Since the beginning of the third phase of the restoration of Van Eycks' Altarpiece in may of this year, the Flemish government has initiated an investigation into the results phase 2 of the restoration.

ArtSnacky is an art project established by a group of artists in Zottegem, Belgium. The aim of the vending machine is to distribute art in an accessible and approachable manner. For just one euro, you become the owner of a unique piece of art – ranging from a small painting, collage, photograph, or sculpture to a virtual artwork viewable through QR codes.

The Institute for Museum Research releases visitor numbers for museums in Germany 2022: 81.4 million, approximately twice as many as in 2021.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of 30 antiquities to Greece collectively valued at $3.7 million. 19 of the pieces were voluntarily surrendered from New York gallery owner Michael Ward. Three of the pieces were seized from British art dealer Robin Symes.

The painting The Little Cat (Le petit chat) (1888) by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is currently at the Van Gogh Museum on long-term loan and will be on display at the museum from today (19 December 2023). The work was last exhibited in 1906, and this is the first time the work will be shown together with paintings that Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin made during the same period of intensive artistic exchange. The Van Gogh Museum plans to conduct extensive research on the work while it is on loan.

The political and cultural climate is coming to a head. The current discussions about artistic freedom and so-called cancel culture are dangerous. Public discourse is increasingly characterised by an inadmissible mixing of topics and tendentious claims. This confusion has led to violations of civil liberties that are unacceptable for a democratic nation.

The British Museum has announced a new £50m deal with the energy giant BP to help deliver its masterplan over the next 10 years.

Eike Dieter Schmidt, the current director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence has been chosen by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano to be the new director of the Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco in Naples.

New research within Operation Night Watch has revealed that Rembrandt impregnated the canvas for his famous 1642 militia painting The Night Watch with a lead-containing substance even before applying the first ground layer. Such lead-based impregnation has never before been observed with Rembrandt or his contemporaries. The discovery underlines Rembrandt's inventive way of working, in which he did not shy away from using new techniques.

The Met has initiated the repatriation of 14 sculptures to the Kingdom of Cambodia and two to the Kingdom of Thailand, including all of the Khmer works known by the Museum to be associated with the dealer Douglas Latchford.

Italian archaeologists have uncovered a luxurious Roman home near the Colosseum, boasting an unparalleled mosaic featuring shells, marble and precious glass, the culture ministry said Tuesday.

Oprah Winfrey’s portrait is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Chicago-based artist Shawn Michael Warren painted Winfrey in a purple taffeta dress amidst a lush garden at her California home.

In response to the urgency of the climate crisis and the corresponding need for a radical change in the way we think and act, the City of Vienna has launched a new festival. The first Klima Biennale Wien, hosted by the KunstHausWien, will begin on 5 April and run until 14 July 14 2024.

In future, the almost four million visitors to Berlin's state museums will have to pay more to see Nefertiti or the works of Gerhard Richter.

Desert X announced the appointment of Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas as co-curator of Desert X 2025, which will open March 8–May 11, 2025 at sites across the Coachella Valley, California. Garcia-Maestas joins the organization’s curatorial team under the leadership of Artistic Director Neville Wakefield and Executive Director Jenny Gil.

The Uffizi Gallery museums said Thursday that they are set to register a new record of over five million visitors this year.

Since Monday, December 11, teachers at Jacques-Cartier College in Issou, Yvelines, are on strike following an incident during a class where a teacher showed an image of a painting by Giuseppe Cesari.

An official request for legal assistance by the German government and with the involvement of the highest state authorities in Germany and Russia, a valuable Rubens painting belonging to the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) has been recovered in Moscow. The painting in question is "Tarquinius and Lucretia" by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640).

During COP28, UNESCO publishes its first ever quantitative report on the “Impacts of Climate Change in Biosphere Reserves and Global Geoparks in Latin America and the Caribbean”. It shows how increasing droughts, wildfires, flooding and landslides pose a growing threat to biodiversity and human lives, while also providing an outlook for the coming decades.

A bakery-prison, where enslaved workers and donkeys were confined and exploited to grind the grain needed to make bread. A cramped room with no view of the outside world and with small windows high in the wall with iron bars to let the light in. In the floor indentations to coordinate the movement of the animals, forced to walk around for hours, blindfolded.

The Rijksmuseum has rediscovered two small portraits by Rembrandt. The 1635 portraits of Jan Willemsz van der Pluym and Jaapgen Caerlsdr. disappeared from view for almost two centuries, before resurfacing two years ago.

Ticket prices are set to climb from €17 to €22 in January 2024, an increase of nearly 30 percent.

A metal detectorist exploring the mountains in the municipality of Vestre Slidre in southern Norway discovered a rare histamenon nomisma (literally standard coin), a Byzantine solid gold coin minted in Constantinople around 960 AD, depicting Jesus Christ.

The Kenyan-Mexican actor, director, producer and New York Times bestselling author Lupita Nyong'o will be President of the International Jury of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.

Following nearly four years of intense negotiations, the city of Ostend, together with Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV) and Restotel NV, has succeeded in rescuing the iconic Thermae Palace Hotel and the Royal Galleries (Koninklijke Gaanderijen) from collapse. In all, around EUR 134 million will be invested, with more than half of this being private funds. The partners expect to formally sign the cooperation agreement by the end of the year, following approval by the relevant decision-making bodies.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a work by Hans Coper to allow time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire the work for the nation.

The European Commission welcomes the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), proposed by the Commission in April 2021.

Subtly sensual, PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz is a heartfelt peach hue bringing a feeling of kindness and tenderness, communicating a message of caring and sharing, community and collaboration.

The Federal Office of Culture Switzerland has handed over a marble sculpture of the head of a young woman to the Libyan Embassy in Bern.

The Whitney Museum of American Art announces the addition of five curators to help lead the film and performance program for the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Co-organizers Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli have invited Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Taja Cheek, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker to join them in developing a Biennial that goes beyond the Museum’s traditional in-gallery presentation to showcase the latest creativity and innovation in art, film, performance, and sound.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) announced that the museum has deaccessioned and returned 44 works of ancient art following an investigation by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Department of Homeland Security into the global trafficking of looted or stolen antiquities.

A new management structure is being implemented at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, representing a new direction for the organisation.

The Turner Prize 2023 has been awarded to Jesse Darling. The winner of the £25,000 prize was announced at a ceremony presented by musician, creative and broadcaster Tinie Tempah at Eastbourne’s Winter Garden, adjacent to Towner Eastbourne, the hosts of this year’s prize.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 41 antiquities valued at more than $8 million to Türkiye.

The city of Bologna announced a €4.3m project to save its famous, leaning Garisenda Tower, completed in 1119.

Simon Schama and Virginia E. Papaioannou have donated to the Rijksmuseum an original copper plate made by Rembrandt in 1635, depicting the stoning of Saint Stephen.

Munich’s Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek asked the National Roman Museum to give back the 2nd-century Discobolus Palombara, a copy of a long-lost Greek original.

GRACE (Ghent Research institute for Art & cultural heritage Crime and Law Enforcement) was founded on February 1, 2023 by representatives of the University of Ghent, the Local Police of Ghent and the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent. It started as a Ghent initiative - what's in a name - but soon various Flemish, federal, and even Dutch organizations joined the network.

Following His Majesty The King’s Accession, Royal Collection Trust today announces that The Queen’s Galleries at Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Holyroodhouse will become The King’s Galleries.

United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero and FBI Philadelphia Special Agent in Charge Wayne A. Jacobs announced today that the Rosenbach Museum & Library (“the Rosenbach”) voluntarily transferred to the custody of the FBI a sixteenth-century manuscript for return to the Archivo General de la Nación del Perú, the Peruvian national archives.

More than 1,300 artists, including Academy Award winning Olivia Colman, Olivier Award winners Harriet Walter and Juliet Stevenson, BAFTA winners Aimee Lou Wood and Siobhán McSweeney, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Susanne Wokoma (Enola Holmes), Youseff Kerkour (Napoleon), Nicola Coughlan (Derry Girls, Bridgerton), Amir El-Masry (The Crown) and Lolly Adefope (Ghosts), have launched an open letter accusing art institutions of censorship on Palestine.

Following an open call by Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council Ireland, Eimear Walshe has been selected to represent Ireland at Biennale Arte 2024 with Sara Greavu and Project Arts Centre as the curator.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art reopened to the public on Thursday, November 30, 2023, free of charge.

Zabludowicz Collection today announces the plans to expand its international reach, and the closure of the London project space.

Elliot Erwitt, the American photographer whose career spanned more than 70 extraordinarily years of 20th-century history, has died.

For the first time, UNESCO has brought together experts specializing in both tangible and living heritage at an international conference co-organized with Italy. The conference culminated in the adoption of the Naples Appeal, which urges UNESCO Member States to work closely with local and indigenous populations in the development of heritage site management policies.

The Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota has created the original artwork Universe of Mouton for the label of Château Mouton Rothschild 2021.

The J. Paul Getty Trust announced it has named Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford as the recipient of its annual Getty Prize, the institution’s highest honor.

In another example of the multilateral collaboration between Mexico and Germany, 75 archaeological pieces, mostly Huasteca, were delivered to the Mexican embassy in Germany on November 23.

The Royal Academy of Arts London announced that from Saturday 17 February 2024 until Sunday 12 January 2025, Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA’s iconic painting, Flaming June, c.1895, will be on free display in the RA’s Collection Gallery.

Member States of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) today elected Saudi Arabia as host country of World Expo 2030 during the 173rd General Assembly of the Organisation.

Italy had lost track of a Botticelli painting valued at €100 million.

The so-called “Karlsruhe Sketchbook” by the German artist Caspar David Friedrich, one of the most important artists of the Romantic period, is to be auctioned on November 30th at the Griesebach auction house in Berlin.

Exhibition features over 100 major artworks by important Black American, African, and African diasporic artists including Gordon Parks, Kehinde Wiley, Hassan Hajjaj, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, and Amy Sherald.

From the entrance area to the restaurant and shop: the museum’s entire plinth is poised for a dramatic transformation.

Artists and cultural voices from across the world are uniting to call for climate negotiators at COP UN Climate Conference to put cultural heritage, arts and creative industries at the heart of climate action.

All three prints of Van Gogh’s lithograph Old Man Drinking Coffee have been reunited for the first time since 1882. The location of one of the three was long unknown, but the print was recently rediscovered and subsequently sold at auction. The new owner is now offering the lithograph to the Van Gogh Museum on long-term loan, and will ultimately gift the work to the museum. The presentation is now on display at the Van Gogh Museum.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled his meeting with visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek leader announced on Monday, with the BBC saying the abrupt cancellation was over the countries’ Elgin Marbles dispute.

Israeli archaeologists have found evidence of large-scale war weapon production in the region dating back to 7,200 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said in a statement on Wednesday.

Signing supports RCU’s development of landmark contemporary art museum in AlUla while activating new phase of training, knowledge sharing, and mentoring between France and AlUla in northwest Arabia.

A new decorated stela has been found in context, in the 3000-year-old funerary complex of Las Capellanías, in Cañaveral de León (Huelva, south-west of Spain). It is thought that late prehistoric stelae in Iberia were created to commemorate important personages.

The British Museum has decided to loan the Meidias Hydria, an ancient Greek vase dating back to 420 BC, to the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece. This move marks the first time in 250 years that the vase, a masterpiece by the Meidias artist, has left the confines of the British Museum.

»Safety Curtain« is an exhibition series conceived by museum in progress in cooperation with the Vienna State Opera, which transforms the safety curtain into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art since 1998.

All of the remaining artefacts from the exhibition Crimea – Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea have been transferred by the Allard Pierson to Ukraine and taken to the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in Kiev.

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If you're an art student, you understand how dynamic art education is! Art is a learning that comes in various forms. For a long time, there has been a great value in art education in enhancing analytical skills.

A 17th-century portrait of English aristocrat Diana Cecil apparently received a modern-day photoshopping, with portions of Cecil’s face being painted over to make for a lower hairline, among other edited features—the so-called “Kylie Jenner treatment,” as described by The Guardian.

In 2022, the Central Office for Combating Trafficking in Cultural Property (OCBC) launched a preliminary investigation into the seizure of a large, draped and fragmentary marble torso in France.

The artwork 'Benjamin' by Belgian artist Maen Florin has been vandalised with graffiti using the word 'Gaza'.

The North Hertfordshire Museum in the UK has announced that it will be adopting new pronouns to reflect the transgender identity of the ancient Roman emperor Elagabalus. The decision to refer to the ruler as “she” is based on classical texts where Elagabalus explicitly requested to be called “lady.”

The planned fourth Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie in Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, which was due to open in March 2024, has been cancelled.

The government in Bern, Switzerland, has decided to establish a commission for looted art.

The story of the remarkable discovery of a group of Egyptian objects uncovered at Melville House in Fife between 1952 and 1984 is being told in full for the first time in an article published in the upcoming Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Art Basel today announced the list of 242 leading international galleries selected for its 2024 Hong Kong show. This represents a return to pre-pandemic numbers, with an additional 65 exhibitors joining the fair compared to 2023.

With the exhibition Art in the third reich – Seduction and distraction Museum Arnhem draws attention to the art from the period of the 'third reich', 1933-1945. What does it look like? Why was there, during a Nazi regime characterized by political violence, war and the Holocaust, so much focus on contemporary art? Did the artists support the regime, did the regime support the artists, or both?

Archaeologists working at the Maya archaeological site of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico dicovered the sculpted face of a warrior emerged among the ruins of Structure 3C11 in the area known as Temple 6 of Maudslay.

On 6th June 2023, the destruction of the Kakhovka dam caused significant direct damages in four oblasts of Ukraine and had caused dire losses in the south of the country. In the framework of its mandate, UNESCO assessed the impact on culture, education and environment, with more than US$ 485 million needed for the recovery of these sectors over the next decade.

The Board of Trustees announces Dr. Mariët Westermann has been appointed as Director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation.

Perhaps few know that the section of the Vatican Walls facing Piazza del Risorgimento includes the Porta di Santa Rosa gateway, and that from that monumental entrance to the Vatican State (created by the sculptor Gino Giannetti and inaugurated in 2006), from next 17 November, it will be possible to directly access the famous archaeological area of the Necropolis along the Via Triumphalis to discover the fascinating “Life and Death in the Rome of the Caesars”.

The Rijksmuseum at Schiphol has opened the doors to its new exhibition 'Aan tafel!' (which is what the Dutch say when dinner is served). The museum at the airport offers travellers the opportunity to admire historical Dutch works of art before the start of their journey.

The remaining four members of Documenta’s Finding Committee have all resigned as of yesterday evening, November 16, per a statement from the exhibition’s administration.

The Van Gogh Museum has wanted to add a painting by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) to its collection for many years. The acquisition of Peasant Spreading Manure enables the museum to show how important Millet was to Van Gogh and many other 19th-century artists. The new acquisition is now on display alongside a number of paintings and drawings by Van Gogh, which clearly show Millet’s influence.

In a letter published on the museums' website, San Fransico Museum of Modern Art director Chris Bedford explained the restructuring.

The British Museum is delighted to announce that Tracey Emin is to join the Board of Trustees. Emin will be the first female Royal Academician appointed to the role in the Museum’s history.

The Board of Kunsthalle Bern announces the appointment of iLiana Fokianaki as its new Director. Fokianaki brings a wide range of experience as a curator, writer, theorist, and founding director of State of Concept, an independent art institution in Athens, Greece. She will begin her tenure in spring 2024 following the directorship of Kabelo Malatsie which concludes in February 2024.

Arts and Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay has placed an export bar on William Hogarth’s satirical painting ‘Taste in High Life’. The work, valued at £2,468,000 (plus VAT of £93,600 which can be reclaimed by an eligible institution), is at risk of leaving the UK unless a domestic buyer can be found to acquire the work for the nation.

The decision to study abroad is akin to taking a leap into a vast sea of cultural experiences, academic enrichment, and personal growth. Every year, thousands of students pack their bags and embark on this transformative journey, seeking knowledge and experiences that extend far beyond the confines of their home universities.

The exhibition Picasso 1906. The Turning Point looks to survey, from a contemporary aesthetic awareness, the artist’s first contribution to the definition of “modern art”.

The coins were tied together in bundles with straw rope passed through a hole in the middle. The haul was unearthed in the Sojamachi district here at a site where a company plans to construct a factory.

The Swiss curator Mohamed Almusibli, has been selected to succeed Elena Filipovic as Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle Basel.

The Theodor Fontane Archive at the University of Potsdam has announced the acquisition of a gouache by the German artist Adolph von Menzel. The gouache, "Reading Lady," is dedicated to Emilie Fontane, the wife of Theodor Fontane, on the reverse side.

The writer, cultural theorist, art critic, and curator Ranjit Hoskoté resigned from the original six-member committee entrusted with selecting the Artistic Direction of the 16th edition of documenta (2027).

Hampi Art Labs is an arts centre located near the UNESCO World Heritage Site Hampi in the South of India, opening in February 2024. Set across 18-acres of landscape, the centre offers artists unique production facilities, an environment to creatively retreat in and galleries for world-class display. The site comprises exhibition spaces, studios and apartments for residencies, gardens, and a café.

The Miller ICA will become ICA Pittsburgh when it moves to its new, expanded home in 2027.

Artists and Allies of Hebron is one of 30 institutions that will present exhibitions alongside the International Exhibition and the national pavilions.

Researchers turn to erosion in exploring the role natural elements had in building an architectural wonder.

The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to hunt their game.

Jerwood Foundation, which has been supporting the arts since 1977 has completed the formalities of merging Jerwood Charity into the Foundation, now sets out funding plans.

British artist, Joe Tilson, a member of the British Pop Art movement, has died aged 95, his family announced.

The German Center for Cultural Property Losses handed over a crucifix to the lawyer representing the heirs of the German-Jewish entrepreneur Ottmar Strauss (1878-1941).

As an exhibition organizer, cofounder of Skulptur Projekte Münster, curator of the major exhibitions Westkunst and von hier aus as well as Manifesta in St. Petersburg, Kasper König played an incomparable role in shaping art discourse over the past five decades. He was director of the Museum Ludwig for twelve years (2000–12). In his view, a museum is a public place: “It belongs to everyone and no one.”

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum have jointly purchased the tour de force “Lessons of the Hour” (2019) by artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien.

The first permanent display at the British Museum of Peruvian and Andean culture has opened in the Wellcome Trust Gallery at an event attended by Peru’s Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism.

The committee tasked with selecting the artistic director for Documenta 16, one of the world’s premier art festivals scheduled for 2027, faced a setback as Israeli artist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger resigned last week. The six-person committee had been navigating controversy, including accusations of anti-Semitism and the challenging geopolitical situation in the Middle East.

Wessex archaeologists, working in the basement below the 18th-century Bath Assembly Rooms, have revealed the remains of a rare Cold Bath.

U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a subpoena to Hunter Biden’s gallerist, George Bergès, and art patron, Elizabeth Naftali, to appear for depositions.

A framed colour version of this image of an elderly man carrying a large bundle of sticks on his back will be recognised worldwide. It is the centrepiece of the iconic front cover of Led Zeppelin IV which famously features no words.

Three Cézanne pictures from the inventory of the Langmatt Museum in Baden were auctioned in New York on Friday night for a total of $44.8 million.

U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a subpoena to Hunter Biden’s gallerist, George Bergès, and art patron, Elizabeth Naftali, to appear for depositions.

London Police charged 44 Just Stop Oil activists after officers made more than 100 arrests on Monday, 6 November.

A new project by Art Fund shows the impact of art on human brainwaves and visualises the results in real-time and in 3D for the public, for the first time.

Thanks to generous support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, Imperial War Museums will open new art, film and photography galleries at IWM London on 10 November 2023, the eve of Armistice Day.

A week ago the reconstruction of the face of Juanita was presented at the Museo Santuarios Andinos in Arequipa, Peru.

Named a “must-see” exhibition by Vogue and a “sure-to-be-historic show” by The New York Times.

Nationalmuseum has acquired a painting dated 1822 by Polish-German artist Johann Theodor Goldstein. The imaginary scene depicts a towering cathedral in the early dusk. With its wonderfully visionary qualities, the painting is a novel addition to Nationalmuseum’s German art collection. It will go on show for the first time in autumn 2024 as part of the exhibition entitled The Romantic Eye.

Art Fund is celebrating 120 years of funding art and championing museums and galleries across the UK.

The Ancient City Belkis/Zeugma is located on the banks of the Euphrates River, built on a land of approximately 20 thousand acres. It has maintained its importance in every period of history because it is in the shallowest passable part of the Euphrates and is a very strategic region in terms of military and trade.

Representatives of UK museums, sector bodies and funders took part in the first UK Museum COP at Tate Modern on 31st October 2023 organised by the NMDC. The event secured consensus from museum leaders on collective action to decarbonise the sector and mitigate the impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises.

Until 3 March 2024 the Museo Nacional del Prado and Fundación AXA are undertaking a journey that moves beyond the surface of artistic masterpieces to allow for the contemplation of a fascinating reality: the hidden side of the work of art, its reverse.

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The Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds will operate under a new name starting from Tuesday: the Cultuurfonds. The decision comes in the wake of the news that Prince Bernhard was a member of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler's Nazi party.

Tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins have been found off the coast of the Italian island of Sardinia.

The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong has launched a unique, interactive performance art experience, which fuses AI technology with the ancient art of Chinese ink-brush painting to celebrate the iconic hotel’s 60th anniversary.

As part of the Whitney’s reimagined food and beverage program—which aims to create welcoming, approachable spaces for people to gather, connect, and recharge—Frenchette Bakery, which opened in TriBeCa in 2020, will open a new flagship location, with its first-ever cafe in the Museum’s redesigned ground-floor restaurant space in November 2023.

Christie’s is selling the very fine pearl collier by Fürst, worn by Audrey Hepburn in the final scene of "Roman Holiday". The lot will be offered in the upcoming Jewels Online: The Geneva Edit sale taking place from 3 to 16 November (estimate CHF18,000-26,000). The Fürst family is originally Austro-Hungarian. In the 1850s, Moric Fürst moved to Turin to establish his business as a Jeweller and became a leading supplier for the Savoyard court.

Two young Just Stop Oil supporters have smashed the glass cover of a painting once famously slashed by a suffragette. They are demanding the government immediately halt all new oil and gas projects in the UK.

Two young Just Stop Oil supporters have smashed the glass cover of a painting once famously slashed by a suffragette. They are demanding the government immediately halt all new oil and gas projects in the UK.

The Odessa National Art Museum was damaged as a result of a night attack on Odessa with the use of missiles and drones. The museum just celebrated it's 124-th birthday.

The City of Philadelphia and the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE) today announced that Alvin Pettit is the winning artist to create Philadelphia’s permanent Harriet Tubman statue. The statue will become the first statue of a Black female historical figure in the City’s public art collection and will be located on the northeast apron of City Hall.

The golden toilet was installed in Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, as part of Italian concept artist Maurizio Cattelan's first solo exhibition in 20 years.

The couple from Eure-et-Loire took legal action to cancel the sale to a second-hand dealer in 2021 of the carved wooden mask that belonged to an ancestor, a former colonial governor in Africa, the value of which they were unaware of at the time, according to their lawyer.

Researchers from Dartmouth and the University of Cambridge identify the oldest artistic representation of a handaxe used by human ancestors.

The report revealed strong High Net Worth (HNW) collector spending in the first half of the year, with a notable increase from Mainland China post-lockdown, as in-person buying also continued its resurgence.

After nearly 50 years since its discovery (in 1975), on November 15, 2023, Michelangelo's secret room beneath the Medici Chapels will be open to the public.

Glicéria Tupinambá will represent Brazil at the 2024 Venice Biennale, making her the first Indigenous artist ever to do the country’s pavilion solo.

Visual artist Jonas Staal was presented the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2023 by Gunay Uslu, State Secretary for Culture and Media. Queen Máxima was in attendance at the awards ceremony.

Members of the Easter Ross Area Committee agreed to move forward towards a public consultation on the potential sale of the historic Bouchardon Bust.

L'Atelier 11, painted in 1916 by Chaïm Soutine, has not undergone significant renovations since its construction in the late 19th century. The facades and the interior are in a worrying state, requiring substantial restoration and a major overhaul of the structure across its three levels. Many original elements, such as the typical workshop windows, need restoration, which comes at a significant cost.

It was a turning point in the history of art: Renaissance painting. What had begun in Italy developed into something completely new in Northern Europe in the works of the painters Hans Holbein the Elder (ca. 1464–1524) and Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531), pioneers of this singular art.

The De Pont museum in Tilburg has acquired a significant work by the Dutch painter René Daniëls. The painting, "Lentebloesem" from 1987, was in a private collection in Switzerland for a long time and is now on display for the public at De Pont.

The Whitney Museum of American Art has completed a full renovation of iconic artist Roy Lichtenstein’s former home and studio at 741/745 Washington Street in Greenwich Village.

The Rubens Castle in Zemst, Belgium, will become a vibrant place dedicated to Rubens, with a brasserie, guest accommodation, and space for conferences. This was announced by Flemish Minister of Tourism Zuhal Demir, CEO of Tourism Flanders Peter De Wilde, and Mayor of Zemst Veerle Geerinckx.

In the digital age, the power of voice has been magnified more than ever before. For college students, this means an unprecedented opportunity to champion causes and bring about change using platforms at their fingertips.

OMA’s David Gianotten showcased the competition winning design to transform Museo Egizio, the world’s oldest museum for Ancient Egyptian culture. Museo Egizio President Evelina Christillin and Director Christian Greco also presented the museum’s vision as it approaches its bicentenary in 2024.

From an early age, we often hear that art profoundly shapes personal growth. Various research results have identified a few areas where this influence has been observed.

From 8 November 2023, Tate Britain will present a restaging of a major feminist artwork which has not been seen for almost 50 years: Bobby Baker's radical sculptural installation An Edible Family in a Mobile Home. The installation accompanies Tate Britain’s autumn exhibition exploring art and activism in the 1970s and 80s, Women in Revolt!, which opens on the same day.

Artforum fired its editor after he published a letter from artists calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

The Kunsthaus Zürich advisory board for the upcoming Bührle exhibition, an assembly of art scholars and historians, has resigned. The departure, confirmed by the museum, follows a disagreement over the exhibition’s portrayal of former art owners who fell victim to the Nazi regime.

Climate activists today scaled the Louvre Museum Pyramid in Paris and threw orange paint on it to demand a nationwide plan for the thermal insulation of buildings from the French government.

Moesgaard Museum’s new special exhibition about ancient Egypt lifts the lid on a sensational new international discovery. Scientists have, for the very first time, managed to recreate the scent of a 3500-year-old embalming oil. The fragrance originates from the mummification of a high-ranking Egyptian woman who was the wet nurse of Pharaoh Amenhotep II when he was a baby.

Barring any last-minute twists and turns, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco will be the new president of Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia. The Sicilian journalist was nominated today by Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano.

A monumental figure in the California Light and Space movement, Irwin made innovations across painting, sculpture, and installation-based work over the course of nearly seven decades, expanding the contours of the canon and continually pushing the limits of what art can be.

More than 2,700 years ago, Assyrian king Sargon II ordered the construction of his own city in what is now Iraq. Known as Dur Sharrukin, or modern day Khorsabad, the sprawling capital city was meticulously planned and fortified with outer walls broken up with seven gates, according to Britannica. Some of the gates were adorned with massive winged statues.

At the Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA) in Munch, Damien Hirst is showing a retrospective of his work from 40 years.

Together and apart, The Beatles have always had a talent for the unexpected. And now, 2023 brings one of the most anticipated releases of their long and endlessly eventful history.

In an open letter a group of Israeli museum directors have called on the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to condemn the October 7 Hamas attack.

Recent severe weather conditions have exposed the Museum of Making to substantial flood damage. Whilst the building was designed to withstand an element of flooding, including movable displays on the ground floor and the installation of electrics above the ground, and staff had worked tirelessly to move as much as possible off the ground floor, water levels were higher than predicted and the damage is significant. As a result, the interruption to the museum’s day-to-day activity is expected to be substantial.

AstaGuru is set to unveil a treasure trove of rare and previously unseen artworks in its upcoming 'Iconic Masters' Auction. This finally curated collection of 190 lots is a veritable journey through significant decades of Modern Indian Art and feature works by revered names who shaped the nation's artistic narrative.

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) expresses its deep concern about the current violence affecting Israeli and Palestinian civilians and deplores the significant humanitarian consequences that the conflict has had over the past weeks. ICOM extends its sincerest condolences to those who have lost family, friends, and community due to the violence.

ill Medvedow will step down from her position in December 2024. Over her 25-year tenure as Ellen Matilda Poss Director, Medvedow has led the transformation of the ICA from a small, non-collecting kunsthalle to a major contemporary art museum, a national leader in teen arts education, and a pioneering advocate for the role of art in civic life.

An intact Roman sarcophagus was discovered in an ancient necropolis in northeastern France. The sarcophagus has been dated to the second century A.D., when the nearby city of Reims was known as Durocortorum.

An open letter demanding an immediate ceasefire circulated online last week, receiving signatures from more than 2,000 visual artists, writers, and actors worldwide. On Saturday, a response from the Israeli art community to that open letter began circulating on Instagram.

The court has sentenced the Polish-Canadian suspect in the projection of an antisemitic text on the Anne Frank House on February 6th to two months of unconditional imprisonment with deduction for time already served.

Co-hosted by the City of Gaziantep, Horasis will hold the 2023 Horasis Global Meeting in Gaziantep, Türkiye over 22-23 October. The theme of the Horasis Global Meeting is to consider how to have a positive impact on Innovation, Sustainability and Reconstruction.

Marcy Carsey, Chair of the UCLA Hammer Museum’s Board of Directors, announced that Director Ann Philbin will retire from the museum on November 1, 2024, after 25 years of leadership that made the Hammer into a landmark institution in Los Angeles and a leading museum of contemporary art for the nation and the world.

Renowned actors Tilda Swinton, Charles Dance, Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake and Khalid Abdalla are among more than two thousand people from across the arts who have signed a letter saying that: “Our governments are not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them.”

The Fondation Louis Vuitton presents the first retrospective in France dedicated to Mark Rothko (1903-1970) since the exhibition held at the musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1999. The retrospective brings together some 115 works from the largest international institutional and private collections, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the artist’s family, and the Tate in London

Sen. Chris Coons, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Thom Tillis today announced the NO FAKES Act, a proposed bill creating new and urgently needed protections for voice and likeness in the age of generative artificial intelligence.

Yuri Albert and Vadim Zakharov received the Kaiserring 2023 award from the city of Goslar, one of the most prestigious awards for contemporary art. They are the 48th recipients of this esteemed award.

Studio DRIFT, known for their mesmerizing drone performance Franchise Freedom, will be showcasing their renowned artwork in New York City’s Central Park later this month.

The British Museum has today set out plans to increase access to the collection, and ensure everything is documented and available online. It is estimated that the project will take 5 years, and means that for the first time the entire collection will be accessible to anyone who wants to explore it.

Auguste Rodin's 'The Burghers of Calais' was owned by the city's museums ever since it was displayed at the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1901. After a Freedom of Information request, it has come to light that the sculpture - also titled 'Le Bourgeois de Calais' - was among a total of 1,750 items missing or stolen that were owned by Glasgow Life - the company running Glasgow's museums and art galleries.

Six stolen paintings from the former town hall of Medemblik, Netherlands, have been recovered. The six artworks are currently in the possession of art detective Arthur Brand and will return to the municipality of Medemblik in the near future.

Leonardo da Vinci is renowned to this day for innovations in fields across the arts and sciences. Now, new analyses published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society show that his taste for experimentation extended even to the base layers underneath his paintings. Surprisingly, samples from both the “Mona Lisa” and the “Last Supper” suggest that he experimented with lead(II) oxide, causing a rare compound called plumbonacrite to form below his artworks.

Each year, the prizewinner will be rewarded $75,000 and receive the opportunity to present a public program at Dia. The first recipient of the award will be announced in spring 2024.

The Jury for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023 convened on Monday, the 16th of October 2023, to choose the laureate of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023 from among the four artists nominated for this edition: Bertille Bak, Bouchra Khalili, Tarik Kiswanson et Massinissa Selmani.

Renowned Korean artist Park Seo-bo, a prominent figure in the development of the dansaekhwa movement, passed away at the age of 92 on Saturday. Earlier this year, Park revealed he had been diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer and chose not to undergo treatment to continue his artistry.

Live Science reports that a new examination of the Parthenon Sculptures housed in the British Museum using luminescence imaging has revealed traces of ancient paint.

After almost 80 years, three works lost during the war are returning to the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, a Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden museum. On 23 October 2023, Willem Jan Hoogsteder, an art dealer from the Netherlands, will hand over the “Campagna Landscape” by Jan Baptist Weenix, which had been missing since the end of World War II, to the museum network in a formal ceremony.