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The Mexican government has published a statement calling on Sotheby’s in New York to withdraw two pre-Columbian artefacts from its…

Arts workers affiliated with Umoja Art Gallery, based in Kampala, Uganda, were denied Swiss entry visas the week before the…

There is a new development in the saga of the Nazi-looted Amedeo Modigliani painting Seated Man With a Cane (1918).…

Art Basel, the world’s largest art fair, opened its 2026 edition in Basel, Switzerland, with a busy VIP preview day…

The Memphis Art Museum will begin its next chapter, in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed mass timber building on the…

A group of 19 attorneys general have moved to halt construction of President Donald Trump’s triumphal arch, arguing that a…

The Swiss lawyer and collector Gitti Hug is based in nearby Zurich and is the president of the friends of…

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In May, an AI-powered robot named Gabi became the first ordained Buddhist monk in South Korea. Footage showed the 1.4m-tall…

Russian artist Robert ⁠Kuzovkov, known as Seymon Skrepetsky, was gunned down Monday in Biała Podlaska, in eastern Poland. Two Belarusian…