A baroque landscape painting that went missing during World War II was returned to Germany on Thursday. The FBI handed over the artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer to a German museum representative in a brief ceremony at
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, annually given by the European Union, has been awarded to Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, who died shortly after being arrested by Iranian authorities last year. The prize, named after Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet human rights
Quentin Tarantino visited a military base in Southern Israel to help “boost morale” amid the state’s war with Hamas. The 60-year-old Pulp Fiction director toured military bases and mingled with soldiers, according the international nonprofit Israel education organization Stand With Us. First,
In honour of the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s passing, the exhibition “Picasso. Dessiner à l’infini” (Picasso. Drawing to Infinity), organised by the Centre Pompidou in collaboration with the Musée National Picasso-Paris, will shine a spotlight on the most prolific part of
The second edition of Paris+ par Art Basel hosts 154 leading galleries from 33 countries and territories – including 60 with an exhibition space in France – present works by French and international artists in solo, duo and group shows, from 20th-century masters to
Renowned actors Tilda Swinton, Charles Dance, Steve Coogan, Miriam Margolyes, Peter Mullan, Maxine Peake and Khalid Abdalla are among more than two thousand people from across the arts who have signed a letter saying that: “Our governments are not only tolerating war
The Pergamon Museum and its world-class collection of antiquities will close this month for a top-to-bottom restoration not due to be completed before 2037. The institution houses treasures, including the Great Altar of Pergamon, built in the second century B.C., the 2,600-year-old
Morocco announced it has gotten back three fossil remains of three different species, dated back to 250 million years ago, from the US. Moroccan Culture Minister Mehdi Bensaid said the announcement of the repatriation of the fossil species was during this week’s
A 3,000-year-old necropolis has been unearthed during the excavations carried out in the Cehennem Deresi (Hell Creek), which is located in Batman. Hasankeyf Museum Directorate officials found the necropolis by chance when they visited the area to register some caves with paintings.
A statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, part of his famous Les Bourgeois de Calais group, is currently “unlocated” in Glasgow’s art collections, museum officials have said. The sculpture is worth €3.5m (£3m). The plaster sculpture, bought by Glasgow Museums from
