3+ hour, 48+ min ago  (313+ words) Hundreds of artists, gallery owners, and collectors staged sit-ins last week in museums across Spain to draw attention to the country's high cultural VAT. The sit-in was part of ongoing efforts by the visual arts community to push the government…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (437+ words) The Museo Reina Sof'a in Madrid, one of Spain's top art museums, said on Monday that it was seeking an investigation into a widely publicized incident involving visitors who came to the museum with Stars of David and Israeli flags....

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (286+ words) Executive Editor, ARTnews & Art in America A French court ordered the high-profile Galerie Kraemer'in Paris to return "2.8 million (around $3.25 million) to collector Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani over questions about a Chinese vase. The decision follows eight years of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (252+ words) Longstanding questions about an episode surrounding a Robert Motherwell painting in Spain have finally been answered: the Franco regime really did try to censor the Abstract Expressionist's work, proposing an altered title for one work with a name that explicitly…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (182+ words) By Leigh Anne Miller In May 2025, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Mexico City. It was Macron's first official visit to Mexico, and was an important step in Mexico's recent attempts to bolster trade relations…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (172+ words) Cecilia Gim'nez Zueco, the amateur Spanish painter who butchered an attempt to restore a small-town fresco and became a global phenomenon because of it, has died at 94. While initially derided as a fiasco, the episode drew unprecedented attention to Borja....

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (813+ words) The case escalated over the weekend when a retired museum employee accused the museum's former director of orchestrating a large-scale theft and smuggling operation. Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (259+ words) The Guggenheim Bilbao has abandoned its long-planned expansion into the Urdaibai biosphere reserve after years of legal battles, and strong local opposition. Plans to build a "100 million satellite of the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain's protected Urdaibai biosphere reserve have been…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (141+ words) A closer look at the top archaeological finds of 2025 that are likely to have an impact on our understanding of human history for years to come. This year had no shortage of archaeological discoveries, and ARTnews reported on the most…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (276+ words) On Friday, Spanish foreign minister Jos" Manuel Albares inaugurated a sprawling exhibition titled "Half the World: Women in Indigenous Mexico," with more than 400 works on loan from the Mexican government. At a press conference at the Cervantes Institute in Madrid,…...