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Mauritshuis Wins Legal Battle Over Five Rembrandts In Its Collection
The District Court of The Hague ruled on Wednesday that the Mauritshuis does not have to return 25 artworks, including five by Rembrandt, to...
Jesús Rafael Soto: Serpentine Galleries Launch Free Display
Just on display, a large walk-in yellow sculpture in Kensington Gardens, titled Pénétrable BBL Jaune, made by the Venezuelan kinetic artist Jesús...
Petr Pavlensky: France Moves to Revoke Asylum Status of Russian Artist
Petr Pavlensky learned on 8 June 2026 that France intends to strip him of his international protection status. The Office for the Protection...
René Magritte Castle of the Pyrenees Damaged By A Child in Jerusalem
The Castle of the Pyrenees is one of Magritte's best-known and most-reproduced images. It signifies the artist's typically disturbing...
Ugo Rondinone: MORE LIGHT Royal Academy Of Arts London
There's a rainbow in the courtyard of the Royal Academy, and it is part of something bigger. You are directed to walk under it. Suspended...
Sagrada Família: Gaudi Landmark Reaches Heaven With Pope’s Blessing
It takes a few seconds to register before you enter Gaudí's architectural icon, because even from the outside, the effect is striking,...
Yinka Shonibare Encounters Thomas Gainsborough At London’s National Gallery
It has taken nearly thirty years. But this October, for the first time since Yinka Shonibare launched his illustrious career, Mr and...
Lubaina Himid: Cork Street 2026 Banner Commission Conveys Language Of Dress
Lubaina Himid has taken over Cork Street. The banners have turned the street's famous stretch of galleries and tailoring establishments into...
Guy Wildenstein Faces New Lawsuit From Monet Family In Rouen
A French judge has ruled that a lawsuit brought by descendants of Claude Monet against Wildenstein & Co. can proceed in Rouen. The case...
Why Lucian Freud Retracted The Attribution Of This Early Portrait
The story of Man in a Black Scarf, a portrait of sufficient quality that Christie's attributed it to Lucian Freud in 1985, only to retract...
Arts Council England Replaces Let’s Create Why Rules Became The Problem
Arts Council England has done what it promised. Let's Create, the ten-year strategy introduced in 2020 and subsequently criticised in an...
Julio Le Parc Pioneering Kinetic Artist Dies Aged 97
Julio Le Parc, the Argentine-born artist whose restless imagination transformed the experience of looking into something physical,...
