The world's first museum dedicated to forbidden artworks closes its doors on Friday just a year and half after it opened in Barcelona.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to announce that the Bayeux Tapestry will come to the UK in 2026, opening access and providing education opportunities ...

For this investigation, EenVandaag spoke with buyers, sellers, and experts. They also analyzed around 20,000 listed objects on the site, which were assessed by 170 experts. The research revealed ...

Italy lowers VAT on Art to 5 PercentItaly is preparing to cut the VAT rate on art sales from 22% to 5%, responding to mounting pressure from the national art market and increased competition from ...

Carrie Yamaoka awarded 2025 Maria Lassnig PrizeThe Maria Lassnig Foundation has awarded their 2025 Prize to Carrie Yamaoka. She will receive €50,000 and an exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, this ...

The construction of a new work by Hew Locke in Ostend, Belgium, has been halted. The work was commissioned by the city of Ostend in 2023 to recontextualise an equestrian statue of former Belgian king ...

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) today announced the acquisition of Jeff Koons’s Split-Rocker (2000), a monumental sculpture adorned with living plants and flowers.

A tourist caused damage to a historic painting at the Uffizi Galleries on Friday morning while attempting to take a selfie.

The legal successors of Richard Semmel (1875-1950) – the granddaughters of Grete Gross, an acquaintance of the Semmel couple – and the Bührle Foundation as the current owner of the painting ‘La route ...

Ahead of a major exhibition in 2026, the National Portrait Gallery acquired 12 new works from the estate of Lucian Freud, one of Britain’s greatest portrait artists.

Held from June 19 to 22, 2025, Art Basel’s 55th edition delivered a dynamic and successful week in Basel.

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