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50 stories across Old Masters, Paris, Modern, and Contemporary. Latest: Getty and Partners Assess 15th-Century Memling Altarpiece for Conservation.
On June 24, 2026, the Getty Conservation Institute announced findings from its ongoing collaboration with the National Museum in Gdańsk to assess and conserve Hans Memling's altarpiece "The Last Judgement" (1467–1473).
The Kunsthaus Zürich has recovered two small-format Old Master paintings missing since early 2023.
On June 22, 2026, Christie's announced that approximately sixty lots from the Graziella Patiño de Ortiz Linares Collection will be offered at auction in Paris on 23 September.
Getty Publications has issued two new volumes, Michaelina Wautier by Katlijne Van der Stighelen and Anne Vallayer-Coster by Kelsey Brosnan.
The Getty Museum has published an article examining the use of white across art history, from Paleolithic cave drawings made with calcite and chalk to lead white pigment in European painting and modern photographic prints.
The Getty Museum highlights the history of the color green through works in its collection, including Landscape with a Thunderstorm by Emilie Mediz-Pelikan from 1896 and A Draped Figure Holding a Book from around 1380.
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Artcurial's November 25, 2025 auction, conducted under Matthieu Fournier in collaboration with Millon, totaled €21,251,779 including fees, three times the overall estimate. Guido Reni's rediscovered 17th-century painting sold for €12,386,600, setting a world record for the artist at auction.
Artcurial held its final auction of the season on December 16 and 17, 2025, dedicated to decorative arts from the 17th to the 19th century. The two sessions offered over 400 lots from several European private collections and achieved €2.9 million with more than 80 percent of lots sold.
Bonhams concluded The Classics series in London with six live sales that generated a combined £5,534,325. The auctions spanned Fine Clocks, European Ceramics, Old Master Paintings, Fine Decorative Arts and Antiquities, following an earlier edition in Paris.
On May 28, 2026, Lempertz reported results from its Old Masters auction held in Cologne on May 21.
On June 8, 2026, TEFAF announced the appointment of Maarten ten Holder as Managing Director, effective immediately.
On June 1, 2026, the National Gallery announced that Yinka Shonibare’s 'Mr. and Mrs. Andrews without their Heads' (1998) will go on display with Thomas Gainsborough’s Mr and Mrs Andrews (about 1750) from 15 October 2026 to 7 February 2027 in the H J Hyams Room.
TEFAF has released contact details for global press inquiries.
The Getty Museum presents Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing, an exhibition of 16th- to 19th-century European drawings that use biblical, classical, mythological, and everyday subjects to convey moral instruction.
Artcurial achieved the highest auction results of 2025 for Mohamed Melehi, Hassan El Glaoui, Jacques Majorelle, Alexandre Roubtzoff, José Cruz Herrera, Chaïbia, Aboudia, Otto Pilny, Céline Lepage and Pascale Marthine Tayou.
Getty drawings curator Stephanie Schrader examines Jacques de Gheyn II's Allegory of Avarice, about 1609, in the third season of the museum's Close Looking video series. The pen and brown ink drawing uses a frog as an allegory of avarice.
The Louvre will open the Spotlight exhibition Affinities on June 24, 2026, running through December 31, 2026.
The Musée du Louvre received a donation of one hundred precious metalwork pieces from Michel Lacoste in November 2025. The works date from the 16th to 18th centuries, with one from the 20th century, and demonstrate French techniques in precious metalwork.
On May 25, 2026, TEFAF published a Deloitte Luxembourg report on the economic impact of its Maastricht edition, which contributed 86.4 million euros to the Netherlands in 2025, including 37.9 million euros for the Maastricht region.
May 27, 2026 TEFAF took place at the Park Avenue Armory in New York with participating galleries showing works by Mickalene Thomas, Seydou Keïta and Kehinde Wiley that address glamour, female beauty, emancipation and representation.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has added multiple works to its collection. Several pieces are on loan from the City of Amsterdam. Additional acquisitions were purchased with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the M.B.T. de Groot Family/Rijksmuseum Fonds.
On May 25, 2026, the Uffizi Galleries opened three new rooms on the second floor at the end of the Third Corridor.
On May 28, 2026, Lisson Gallery announced that Shirazeh Houshiary will be in conversation with Sir Gabriele Finaldi on June 19, 2026, at The National Gallery in London.
Artcurial, in partnership with Lempertz, will present the African and Oceanic art collection assembled by Belgian collector Jean-Jacques Rotthier from the 1970s in Paris on 8 September during Parcours des Mondes.
The Uffizi Galleries will open all spaces of the complex during ordinary hours on June 1, 2025, including the Uffizi Gallery, Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Gardens. On June 2, 2025, only the Uffizi Gallery will operate during ordinary hours, with the Vasari Corridor closed to visitors.
The Louvre presented multiple exhibitions with dates including The Making of the Farnese Gallery from 5 November 2025 to 2 February 2026, Near Eastern Antiquities in Dialogue from 29 February 2024 to 14 December 2025, and The Adolphe Thiers Collection from 14 May to 25 August 2025.
The Uffizi Galleries announced the death of Detlef Heikamp, a scholar of Mannerist sculpture and Medicean collecting. Heikamp, who collected works himself, donated many pieces from his own holdings to the museum.
Artcurial will hold an antiquities auction on May 12, 2026, presenting the second part of the Christian Levett collection of ancient arms and armor from the former Mougins Museum of Classical Art.
The Louvre Museum is running a series of workshops from 19 November 2025 to 31 August 2026. The programming is listed under the museum's news and events section with two results focused on workshops. Sessions are available for discovery throughout the full period.
The Musée du Louvre presents exhibitions for visitors to discover. The museum offers official guided tours to explore its collections.
The episode of Becoming Artsy shows host Jessie visiting the Getty Museum’s Drawings Room to examine two bird watercolors by artist Sarah Stone. She next meets ornithologist Allison Shultz at the Natural History Museum, where a collection of taxidermied tanager birds is displayed.
The Uffizi Galleries has reopened the Royal Apartments at Palazzo Pitti following a five-year closure and nine months of restoration.
The Uffizi Galleries has placed the Adam and Eve panels by Lucas Cranach the Elder at the center of its new Flemish Masters rooms on the second floor. The German painter created more than 50 versions of the subject with his collaborators.
The Uffizi Galleries has restored the Niobe Hall on the second floor with 90 energy-efficient lamps of high color rendering.
Uffizi Galleries has returned Raphael's Madonna del Baldacchino to the Saturn Room of the Palatine Gallery at Pitti Palace in Florence, where the work has hung since the gallery opened to the public in 1828.
The Uffizi Galleries has reinstalled fifty ancient Greco-Roman busts in the Ponte Vecchio section of the Vasari Corridor. The portraits depict figures including Cicero, emperors Augustus and Antoninus Pius, and empresses Faustina and Sabina.
The Uffizi Galleries has reopened the Stanzino delle Matematiche after restoration of its floor, walls and bronzes in the niches, along with installation of a new lighting system.
Sotheby's maintains a dedicated Restitution Department founded in 1997 to identify works of art that may have been displaced between 1933 and 1945. The department collaborates with specialists to research and review the provenance of any work offered for sale.
On October 28, 2025, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art acquired six works for its permanent collection during the 39th Collectors Committee fundraiser, including pieces by Max Beckmann, Manuel de Arellano, Chiura Obata, Miné Okubo, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tokio Ueyama and Virginia Vezzi, as well as a group of 101 Indone.
Artcurial will offer a preparatory drawing by Antoine-Jean Gros of General Bonaparte capturing the Bridge of Arcole on November 15, 1796, in its Old Master & 19th Century Drawings auction.
Tate and the National Portrait Gallery have jointly acquired William Dobson’s Self-Portrait c.1635-40, one of the earliest known works by the artist widely considered Britain’s first great painter.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer held its annual auction in Basel featuring Swiss Art, International Art before 1900 and Important Watches. The three sales reached CHF 4.9M (€5.4M). A new world record was set when the Patek Philippe “Beyer. No. 17” Ref. 3940 sold for CHF 762,150 (€843,113).
Artcurial will auction the third and final part of the Bourdel collection on April 14, 2026, in collaboration with experts Emmanuel Lhermitte and Philippine de Sailly.
Artcurial achieved total sales of €208.5 million in 2025, including €15.2 million from Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, marking a 12% increase from 2024.
Bonhams will present The Cannon Collection in two parts this April. Part I, a live auction, takes place at Bonhams New Bond Street on April 15, 2026, with Part II offered online from April 6 to 16, 2026.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will hold its Old Master Paintings sale in Paris on 21 April 2026.
Bonhams March Asia Week New York at its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street concluded with a total of US$12.5 million across six live sales.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will hold its Classics auction in Paris on 22 April featuring an exceptional collection of early Meissen porcelain assembled in East Asia including pieces from the personal collection of Augustus the Strong Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
Bonhams held its Fine Jewellery London auction on March 25, 2026. The 273-lot sale was 87% sold by lot and 98% by value. The top lot, a Cartier diamond 'C de Cartier' necklace, achieved £40,960 against a pre-sale estimate of £18,000-25,000.
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