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Over 1,500 Italian arts workers have signed an open letter urging their government to condemn the Gaza assault and recognise the state of Palestine.
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Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio’s new UK Government Art Collection commission explores diplomacy through whale song in a series of screen prints for embassies.
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Record-breaking sales in Delhi and London capped a banner year for South Asian Modern art, bolstered by India’s new tax cuts for art transactions.
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A new Rijksmuseum book lifts the curtain on how the record-breaking 2023 Vermeer exhibition came together—revealing behind-the-scenes drama and fresh research.
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The V&A is expanding its Gilbert Galleries from four to seven rooms, with new displays examining Nazi and Soviet looting alongside decorative art masterpieces.
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Washington’s Bellevue Arts Museum has sold its Steven Holl–designed building to KidsQuest Children’s Museum after years of financial struggles.
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Christie’s Hong Kong autumn sale dropped 46% from last year, but still achieved a record for Picasso in Asia with ‘Buste de Femme’ selling for $25.4m.
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New York City has added five institutions to its prestigious Cultural Institutions Group, granting long-term funding to organisations across all five boroughs.
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The world’s oldest art gallery, Colnaghi, is opening an outpost in Riyadh—its first in the Middle East and the first Old Master dealership to enter the Saudi market.
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Almine Rech has closed its Mayfair gallery and placed its UK business into liquidation—a “technical step”, the gallery says, to restructure a lease no longer aligned with its plans.
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NEW EPISODE | The Week in Art Podcast: Who made ancient Egyptian art? Plus, Michaelina Wautier, Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Bed’
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Michael Landy has unveiled a decade-in-the-making memorial in London to humanitarian aid workers, featuring 15 life-sized figures inscribed with their stories.
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Italy’s art police have seized 21 suspected Salvador Dalí forgeries from a major exhibition in Parma, with organisers potentially facing criminal charges.
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Tate Modern’s survey of Emily Kam Kngwarray reveals how her meteoric rise exposed the fraught market dynamics surrounding Aboriginal art in Australia.
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Gaudí’s Casa Batlló in Barcelona will open a contemporary art gallery in January 2026, giving visitors access to the second floor for the first time.
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A new museum in Mexico City dedicated to Frida Kahlo’s youth and family life has opened in the Kahlo family’s historic home near Casa Azul.
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A cache of possibly medieval artefacts found in a Canadian thrift store will form the basis of a new archaeology course and exhibition at Simon Fraser University.
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The UK government has announced a new Town of Culture competition to celebrate the “creativity, history and identity” of Britain’s towns.
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Federally funded museums in Washington, DC—including the Smithsonian—face closure next week if the US government shutdown continues.
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Palestinian artist Ahmed Muhanna is touring Europe with an exhibition of paintings made on humanitarian aid boxes, sharing “a piece of Gaza with the world”.
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The Onera Foundation has opened a new space in Connecticut with a show inspired by Eero Saarinen’s US Embassy in Oslo, expanding its mission to preserve historic American architecture.
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Art Basel has hired Christie’s Carly Murphy as its new global head of collector and institutional relations, strengthening ties with top collectors and museums.
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A new museum devoted to Indian Modernist M.F. Husain will open in Doha this November, showcasing his paintings, films, tapestries and more.
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A new survey warns political interference is eroding the independence of European museums, with many adopting “strategic silence” to safeguard funding.
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Germany’s Ludwigsburg Palace is restoring King Friedrich I’s extraordinary tent-like drapery bedchamber, due to reopen in 2026.
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A new novel by Laurent Binet reimagines Renaissance Florence as a gripping art historical murder mystery, with Pontormo, Vasari and Michelangelo at its centre.
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Sara Raza, author of Punk Orientalism, has been appointed artistic director and chief curator of Uzbekistan’s Centre for Contemporary Art in Tashkent.
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Musée Jacquemart-André presents Paris’s first Georges de La Tour show in decades, spotlighting the once-forgotten 17th-century painter.
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The Brooklyn Museum has opened its first gallery dedicated to video art with Christian Marclay’s cinematic collage Doors (2022).
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A new biography casts Vanessa Bell as the Bloomsbury Group’s leading light and a key figure in shaping 20th-century visual culture.
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