On September 20, Christie’s auction house officially opened its new Asia Pacific headquarters in The Henderson, a newly developed office building in Hong Kong’s Central district. This is Christie’s third major auction house to expand its footprint in the city, following Phillips
A large sculpture of Oscar Wilde’s head, set to be unveiled in a public garden in southwest London, has raised eyebrows. The statue, created by the late Scottish artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, has been sharply criticized by Wilde’s grandson, Merlin Holland. The
A previously unknown 12-minute piece of music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been discovered in a library in Germany. Researchers believe the composer wrote the piece—titled ‘Serenade in C’—when he was a young teenager. The composition was hidden among the holdings
The Design Museum in London recently announced an exhibition dedicated to the filmmaker Wes Anderson. This exhibition will be titled ‘Wes Anderson’ and it’ll be the film director’s first official retrospective exhibition. The show will follow his work from Anderson’s first experiments
A statue of a woman from the Early Roman Imperial Period has been discovered during ongoing excavations at the ancient city of Blaundos, located in the Sülümenli village of Ulubey district, in the western province of Uşak. The excavation work, which began
A rare bronze couch dating back to 530 B.C., which had been removed from a grave near the western province of Manisa during illegal excavations and smuggled abroad, has been returned to Türkiye by the J. Paul Getty Museum in the U.S.
A collection of thirty paintings, loaned from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran, has disappeared, sparking outrage and calls for an urgent investigation. According to a report from Artdependence, the artworks were meant to be showcased in an exhibition authorized
A remarkable story has emerged from Cranbrook, England, where an 11-year-old boy unknowingly rescued a rare Renaissance print by the famed German artist Albrecht Dürer from the trash. The boy, now 24, had kept the artwork tucked away for over a decade,
During the opening reception of Ai Weiwei’s highly anticipated exhibition Who Am I? at Palazzo Fava in Bologna, Italy, a porcelain sculpture by the renowned Chinese artist was deliberately destroyed by a visitor. The shattered artwork, Porcelain Cube, was part of a
The 31st edition of the International Aspendos Opera and Ballet Festival has commenced at the historic Aspendos Ancient Theater with a grand opening night featuring Guiseppe Verdi’s renowned opera, Aida. Organized by the Directorate of State Opera and Ballet, the festival attracted
