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The Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi will stage a month-long, free, non-selling exhibition at Christie’s London headquarters in St James’s titled “The Meeting Ground: Scenes from the...
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The Manhattan District Attorney’s office under Alvin Bragg announced that it returned 657 looted antiquities valued at nearly $14 million to India at a ceremony at India’s consulate in New York City....
London’s Wellcome Collection announced plans to transfer 2,000 Jain manuscripts to the Jain community, with the materials moving to the University of Birmingham’s Dharmanath Network in Jain Studies...
On April 28, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the repatriation of 657 trafficked antiquities to India, valued at nearly $14 million, following investigations by the D.A.’s...
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Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karolina Bankowska of Lawrence, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on April 28 in federal court in Brooklyn to a five-year scheme that sold more than 200 counterfeit artworks...
Erwin Bankowski and his daughter Karoline Bankowska of New Jersey pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn on April 28 to wire fraud conspiracy and misrepresenting Native American-produced goods...
Artnet News reported on April 27, 2026, that Art Basel has introduced a “Basel Exclusive” initiative to curb PDF pre-fair sales by encouraging galleries to hold back works from previews and...
ARTnews reports that “Said in Stone,” at the Peabody Essex Museum, is the first comprehensive retrospective devoted to late 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis, a Black and Indigenous artist. The...
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is using its forthcoming David Geffen Galleries to advance a curatorial strategy championed by CEO and director Michael Govan that breaks down traditional...
Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation, which manages the modern and Arab art collection assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum, scheduled to open in January...
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After two years of conservation, the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut, has put a 37-foot-long early 19th-century Indian work known as the “Lucknow scroll” on public view for the...
Artnet News reports that Aicon Art in New York has mounted “Courtly Visions: Indian Miniature Painting,” the gallery’s first exhibition devoted entirely to Indian miniature painting, featuring works...
Raja Ravi Varma’s Yashoda and Krishna (ca. 1890s) sold for $17.9 million at Saffronart in Delhi on April 1, setting a new auction record for an Indian artist. The sale surpassed the previous...
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Raja Ravi Varma’s oil painting “Yashoda and Krishna” (1890s) set a new auction record for a South Asian painting when it hammered at $15 million ($17.9 million with fees, or 1,672 million Indian...
ARTnews profiles Native American artist Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) in connection with his site-specific installation “Red Metal Dust” at the Barnes Foundation in...
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Artist Shahzia Sikander’s new hand-drawn animated film, 3 to 12 Nautical Miles, is being screened on the digital façade of Hong Kong’s M+ museum through 21 June. The work uses the historical shift in...
Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool since 2018, has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and will begin in June, overseeing exhibitions, the collection, and...
ARTnews reported that a 350-year-old Vrindavani Vastra tapestry will return to India on loan from the British Museum. The textile, associated with Vrindavan and devotional narratives, is being lent...
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The British Museum and the government of Assam agreed to a six-month loan of the 17th-century Vrindavani Vastra, a nine-metre-long tapestry depicting scenes from the life of Krishna, to begin in...
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On 23 February 2026, The New York Historical (NYH) in Manhattan announced it has acquired a gift of 150 works of contemporary Native art from Agnes Hsu-Tang, chair of the museum’s board of trustees,...
An Artnet News roundup reports that a major new contemporary art center is being planned in Manila, alongside updates from across Asia’s art scene. The article also surveys recent art fairs in Qatar,...
The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
On 10 February 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, announced it will deaccession and return three bronze Hindu sculptures to India after a provenance review...
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On 2 February 2026, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi appointed Manuel Rabaté as its first chief executive and director, marking his move from the Louvre Abu Dhabi, where he has been...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has returned three sculptures to India after determining they were looted. The repatriation is part of ongoing efforts by museums to address gaps in...