Articles

Iranian Photographer Hannah Darabi wins Prix Elysée 2025
Article date: Friday, June 20, 2025

Iranian Photographer Hannah Darabi wins Prix Elysée 2025

Photo Elysée announced that Iranian photographer Hannah Darabi has won the Prix Elysée 2025. Her project Why Don't You Dance? was chosen by an international jury amongst eight nominated propositions.


Canadian Climate Vandalist arrested for throwing Paint on Picasso Painting in Montreal
Article date: Friday, June 20, 2025

Canadian Climate Vandalist arrested for throwing Paint on Picasso Painting in Montreal

A climate vandalist has been arrested after pink paint was thrown at a glass-covered Pablo Picasso painting at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)Thursday morning.


Dutch Investigation reveals Growing Problems at Online Auction Platform Catawiki
Article date: Thursday, June 19, 2025

Dutch Investigation reveals Growing Problems at Online Auction Platform Catawiki

Catawiki has become a major source of frustration for collectors. Deceptive practices and counterfeit items have driven them away. And their stories aren’t isolated incidents, according to extensive research by Dutch Television Program EenVandaag. Dozens of buyers, sellers, and former employees unanimously state that the quality of the platform is deteriorating.

Grand Palais Paris reopens After Transformative Renovation by Chatillon Architectes
Article date: Thursday, June 19, 2025

Grand Palais Paris reopens After Transformative Renovation by Chatillon Architectes

Paris-based practice Chatillon Architectes has completed a sweeping transformation of the Le Grand Palais, marking the most comprehensive renovation of the Parisian landmark in its 120-year history.

 


Lesia Vasylchenko wins Main Award of the Ukrainian PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025
Article date: Thursday, June 19, 2025

Lesia Vasylchenko wins Main Award of the Ukrainian PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025

Lesia Vasylchenko is the main prize winner of the 8th edition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize for Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger.


€12,2M recorded for the Sales of African and Oceanic Arts in Paris
Article date: Thursday, June 19, 2025

€12,2M recorded for the Sales of African and Oceanic Arts in Paris

The sales of the Hilde & Dieter Scharf Collection and Pacific Art together achieved a total of €12,199,880 across 56 lots sold. 


Interview with Gernot Wieland: Confronting the Frailties of Recollection
Article date: Thursday, June 19, 2025

Interview with Gernot Wieland: Confronting the Frailties of Recollection

Gernot Wieland is an Austrian artist based in Berlin whose films, drawings, lecture-
performances and installations comment on human notions of belonging within inherited
social, political and psychological processes.


Carrie Yamaoka awarded 2025 Maria Lassnig Prize
Article date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Carrie Yamaoka awarded 2025 Maria Lassnig Prize

The Maria Lassnig Foundation has awarded their 2025 Prize to Carrie Yamaoka. She will receive €50,000 and an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, this year’s partner institution, in 2026.


Researchers bring You Face to Face With a 10,500-Year-Old Woman
Article date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Researchers bring You Face to Face With a 10,500-Year-Old Woman

Ghent University researchers have reconstructed the face and life of a prehistoric Belgian woman who lived in the Meuse Valley around 10,500 years ago. 


Rhea Dillon, Joyce Joumaa win Art Basel’s Baloise Art Prize
Article date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Rhea Dillon, Joyce Joumaa win Art Basel’s Baloise Art Prize

The Baloise Art Prize, a $36,800 award given out to two artists participating in the Statements sector of Art Basel annually, has this year gone to Rhea Dillon and Joyce Joumaa.


Protest at the Rijksmuseum over acquisition of Condom
Article date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Protest at the Rijksmuseum over acquisition of Condom

Members of the Dutch ultra‑conservative Catholic foundation Civitas Christiana demonstrated at the Rijksmuseum against the purchase of an ancient condom.


Successful First Six Months for Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture 2025
Article date: Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Successful First Six Months for Chemnitz as European Capital of Culture 2025

After half a year as European Capital of Culture, the City of Chemnitz, the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH and its many partners are extremely positive.


UK places Export Bar on £8 million Rubens Painting
Article date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

UK places Export Bar on £8 million Rubens Painting

A temporary export bar has been placed on an oil sketch, titled ​​Cimon Falling in love with Efigenia, by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens.


The Frick unites Vermeer's Love Letters
Article date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Frick unites Vermeer's Love Letters

In the first show to be held in The Frick Collection’s new Ronald S. Lauder Exhibition Galleries, three works by Johannes Vermeer will be presented from June 18 through August 31, 2025.


Independent’s Art Fair in New York to relocate for 2026 Edit
Article date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Independent’s Art Fair in New York to relocate for 2026 Edit

Independent will take place next year May 14-17, 2026 at a new home at Pier 36, a 70,000-square-foot, light-filled venue located adjacent to the Lower East Side gallery community and contemporary art institutions.


Cosmetics Industry Icon and Arts Patron Leonard A. Lauder dies at 92
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Cosmetics Industry Icon and Arts Patron Leonard A. Lauder dies at 92

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE: EL) announces that Chairman Emeritus Leonard A. Lauder passed away on June 14, at the age of 92, surrounded by family. 


Grant funds Smart Museum-Divinity School Partnership to research Religious Objects
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Grant funds Smart Museum-Divinity School Partnership to research Religious Objects

The University of Chicago has received a $2.45 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.


Belgian Conceptual Artist Guillaume Bijl dies at 79
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Belgian Conceptual Artist Guillaume Bijl dies at 79

Guillaume Bijl (1946 - 2025. Antwerp, Belgium) is a self-taught artist. He attended a theatre course and worked successively as a stage builder and painter. From the second half of the seventies he abandoned painting and started making tragi-comedic installations, sculptures and compositions inspired by the banality of our consumption-driven society.
 

Egypt Again delays Opening of Grand Egyptian Museum, citing Regional Tensions
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Egypt Again delays Opening of Grand Egyptian Museum, citing Regional Tensions

"In view of the ongoing regional developments, it was decided to postpone the official inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which was scheduled for July 3," the tourism and antiquities ministry said in a statement.


Iran moves Museum Artifacts to Secure Storage as strikes Intensify
Article date: Monday, June 16, 2025

Iran moves Museum Artifacts to Secure Storage as strikes Intensify

Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization completed moving prominent museum artifacts to secure storage on Saturday as military strikes between Iran and Israel intensified.