Exemplifying the rare and magnificent lots offered in The Exceptional Sale on 1 July at Christie’s, a Union Jack Flown by HMS Spartiate at The Battle of Trafalgar will be a leading highlight during ...

A rare condom dating from 1830 will go on display at the Rijksmuseum on 3 June 2025. This almost 200-year-old contraceptive – probably made from a sheep’s appendix – features an erotic etching ...

The sting, organized by the police’s Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Antiquities, took place at a residence in Elliniko, where undercover officers posed as buyers. The suspects ...

Joel Shapiro, Post-Minimalist Sculptor, dies at 83 . One of America’s most renowned artists and a major figure in the history of sculpture in the 20th century, Shapiro—who also worked across drawing ...

Previously held in a private collection, this self-portrait has now been saved for the nation thanks to a £1.6 million grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund, major support from Art Fund and ...

Exploring thousands of years of art history, Frieze Masters spans illuminated manuscripts to significant works from the 20th century. With a particular emphasis on galleries based or operating in Asia ...

The Mozambican authorities are demanding the restitution of at least 800 artefacts looted during colonialism. This is part of a continental movement demanding the restitution of African material and ...

The grant will support the four-year project, Afterlives: Engaging Objects of Religious Origin in Museum Collections, a collaboration between the Smart Museum of Art and the Divinity School’s Martin ...

It has been a nearly forgotten, 40-year circuitous path for two brazenly stolen paintings to find their way back to gallery walls at Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico. Victor Higgins’ Aspens ...

One of Lebanon’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Nabil Nahas is known for his visionary practice that bridges abstraction and figuration through meditative compositions rooted in geometry, ...

The entrance fee to the Louvre will rise from 22 to 30 euros for non-EU visitors. It is one of the first French cultural institutions to apply the so-called “differential tariff,” a measure set to be ...

Among his most emblematic and intellectually ambitious works is the Rhinocrétaire—a monumental bronze rhinoceros that opens to reveal a fully functional writing desk. At once fantastical and ...