Joel Shapiro passed away in Manhattan on June 14, 2025 at age 83.

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

Lesia Vasylchenko is the main prize winner of the 8th edition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize for Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger.

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

Members of the Dutch ultra‑conservative Catholic foundation Civitas Christiana demonstrated at the Rijksmuseum against the purchase of an ancient condom.

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.

"In view of the ongoing regional developments, it was decided to postpone the official inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which was scheduled for July 3," the tourism and antiquities ministry ...

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 ...

Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization completed moving prominent museum artifacts to secure storage on Saturday as military strikes between Iran and Israel intensified.

The Baloise Art Prize, a $36,800 award given out to two artists participating in the Statements sector of Art Basel annually, has this year gone to Rhea Dillon and Joyce Joumaa.

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 ...