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In an Instagram post on Thursday Banksy unveiled his latest piece: a lighthouse with the words ‘I want to be what you saw in me’ written over it.

Fukutake Foundation has announced the opening date for Naoshima New Museum of Art. Designed by Tadao Ando and with Miki Akiko as director, the latest addition to the nexus of museums on the island o f Seto Inland Sea in Japan will open on Saturday, May 31, 2025.

On Saturday 31 May 2025, the V&A’s new working store and visitor attraction, V&A East Storehouse, opens its doors to the public for the first time following 10 years of planning and extensive audience consultation, with input from V&A East’s Youth Collective. Designed by world-renowned architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, it opens as part of East Bank, the new cultural quarter in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park supported by the Mayor of London.

On May 27, 2025, the long-time President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, was bid farewell in a ceremony at the Neues Museum in Berlin. At the same time, Marion Ackermann was officially installed as his successor.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the significant discovery on Monday, describing it as a "major scientific and archaeological achievement."

Brussels’ vibrant contemporary art scene comes together again this September for the first full edition of RendezVous – Brussels Art Week.

Boy Playing the Violin and Girl Singing were bought at Sotheby’s with the help of the Rembrandt Association, the Mondrian Fund, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science’s National Acquisition Fund, the VriendenLoterij lottery and Haarlem municipal council.

In the Sala delle Colonne at Ca’ Giustinian, the headquarters of La Biennale in San Marco, the presentation was held of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh – which will run from Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 (preview 7, 8, 9 May) at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in various locations around Venice.

In light of national and international developments in provenance research, the intense public debate surrounding the presentation of the long-term loan at the Kunsthaus Zürich, and the independent review of the Bührle Foundation’s provenance research by Prof. Raphael Gross, the relationship between the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft and the Foundation E. G. Bührle Collection (hereinafter: Bührle Foundation) required reassessment and a new framework.

Henrike Naumann and Sung Tieu have been announced as the artists for the German Pavilion at the 61st Venice Art Biennale, for which ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen serves as commissioner.

A sword commissioned personally by Napoleon Bonaparte sold Thursday evening in Paris for nearly EUR 4.7 million, approaching the world record for Napoleonic artifacts sold at auction, the Hôtel Drouot auction house announced Friday.

This June 25 in Paris, Sotheby’s will offer one of the most comprehensive Napoleonic private collections ever to come to market – some hundred standout items from the storied trove of leading collector and authority in the field Pierre-Jean Chalençon.

Tate unveiled first-stage designs for the new Clore Garden at Tate Britain by landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith Studio and architects Feilden Fowles. The designs have been developed and discussed at a series of public consultation events held at Tate Britain.

In an era where technology, science, and genetic manipulation are evolving at lightning speed, artist Sofie Muller poses a confronting question: how far are we willing — and allowed — to go in our pursuit of the perfect child? Her powerful installation ‘The Clean Room’ is a poetic yet unsettling work of art that makes this ethical dilemma tangible for its audience.

Nine North American Holocaust museums issued the following statement in response to the fatal shooting of two Israeli Embassy Aides at the Capital Jewish Museum yesterday.

Sebastião was much more than one of the greatest photographers of our time. Alongside his life partner, Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, he sowed hope where there was devastation and brought to life the belief that environmental restoration is also a profound act of love for humanity. His lens revealed the world and its contradictions; his life, the power of transformative action.

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

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

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

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