
Getty Villa Set to Reopen After Palisades Fire Closure
LOS ANGELES – The Getty Villa Museum will welcome visitors again on June 27, marking its return after a months-long closure caused by the devastating Palisades Fire…
19 May 2025
LOS ANGELES – The Getty Villa Museum will welcome visitors again on June 27, marking its return after a months-long closure caused by the devastating Palisades Fire…
19 May 2025
Frederick Doe, a middleman implicated in the audacious theft of a £4.75 million solid gold toilet from Winston Churchill’s birthplace, has walked free from court…
19 May 2025
It languished in obscurity for decades—a stained, neglected parchment dismissed as a mere copy. But now, a manuscript tucked away in Harvard Law School…
18 May 2025
In a landmark result for Christie’s, the South African artist Marlene Dumas has claimed the auction record for a living female artist. Her 1997 painting, Miss January…
15 May 2025
Patrick Spencer, the Conservative MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, has been charged with two counts of sexual assault involving two women…
14 May 2025
A rare early Botticelli painting of the Virgin Mary, valued at £10.2 million, has been temporarily barred from export by the UK government, offering a last chance…
13 May 2025
On the second anniversary of their Coronation, King Charles III and Queen Camilla returned to the National Gallery to mark the completion of a two-year
7 May 2025
The late Jacob Rothschild 4th Baron(1936–2024), a towering figure in British cultural philanthropy, continues to shape the nation’s artistic heritage…
7 May 2025
Going to the Mill—a rare early canvas by L.S. Lowry—surfaced from near-century-long obscurity and has realised £805,200 (with fees) in Lyon & Turnbull’s Modern Made sale….
3 May 2025
The National Gallery has secured a breathtaking yet enigmatic early 16th-century Northern Renaissance altarpiece, unseen by the public since 1960….
1 May 2025
Art Fund has revealed the five exceptional museums in contention for Museum of the Year 2025, the world’s most significant museum prize…
29 April 2025
A young visitor has caused damage to Mark Rothko’s Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, a painting valued at up to €50 million (approximately £42.5 million), at Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen….
29 April 2025
A New York judge has ruled that the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) must surrender a disputed Egon Schiele drawing, looted by the Nazis from Austrian-Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum….
26 April 2025
Camden Arts Projects, a bold new not-for-profit space championing contemporary art and film, opens its doors on 9 May with a major exhibition by Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed…
25 April 2025
The four artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025 were announced this morning at Tate Britain on the 250th anniversary of Turner’s birth.
23 April 2025
Researchers in the United States have ventured beyond the bounds of human perception, claiming to unlock a colour no eye has ever seen—until now….
22 April 2025
St John on Bethnal Green is a Grade 1 listed building of international significance that has been at the centre of the vibrant parish…
22 April 2025
From June 12 to June 16, 2025, Tate Modern will host a powerful and poignant exhibition: the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. This vast textile…
22 April 2025
The death of artist Sarah Cunningham, whose work was championed by London’s Lisson Gallery, has been ruled accidental by a coroner….
11 April 2025
Following a contentious restoration, the BBC has reinstalled Eric Gill’s Prospero and Ariel sculpture outside its London headquarters…
10 April 2025
Billionaire collector and conservationist Thomas Kaplan has announced plans to sell Young Lion Resting, a rare Rembrandt drawing, to support wildlife conservation initiatives….
10 April 2025
David Hockney, Britain’s most celebrated living painter, is at the centre of a censorship row after Paris Metro authorities pulled a promotional poster for his upcoming retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton…
3 April 2025
Tate Modern has unveiled a spectacular new addition to its collection with the arrival of Iva (1973), a towering six-metre triptych by Abstract Expressionist pioneer Joan Mitchell…
3 April 2025
Personality, passion, and imagination are essential for any artist or teacher. Sam Ainsley and David Harding have it in spades….
1 April 2025
Tate has welcomed the recommendations of the UK government’s Spoliation Advisory Panel to return Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy by Henry Gibbs to the heirs of Jewish Belgian art collector
1 April 2025
In what could be the art find of the year, Pennsylvania antique dealer Heidi Markow reportedly purchased an uncatalogued drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir….
27 March 2025
Beneath the soil of a North Yorkshire field, archaeologists have uncovered a treasure trove that’s shaking up how we perceive Iron Age Britain….
25 March 2025
LONDON — For the second year running, the British Museum has topped the list of the United Kingdom’s most-visited attractions, drawing 6.5 million people through its doors in 2024…
24 March 2025
In the early hours of 14 September 2019, a brazen heist at Blenheim Palace saw thieves make off with a solid 24k gold toilet worth £4.8 million…
19 March 2025
A man has pleaded not guilty to damaging a stone sculpture outside the BBC headquarters in London, which cost over £150,000 to repair….
18 March 2025
New York, NY – The Frick Collection, housed in one of New York City’s last great Gilded Age homes, offers intimate encounters with one of the world’s foremost collections of fine and decorative arts….
17 March 2025
In 2024, over four million people experienced the National Gallery in person, a 15% increase from 2023. 4,713,519 visits were recorded for the Gallery
17 March 2025