A 19th-century painting confiscated by the Nazis will be returned to the original Jewish owner’s descendants by the Fitzwilliam Museum. According to a government panel’s findings, the oil landscape, crafted by French realist Gustave Courbet, was taken from Robert Bing in occupied…
Two sales featuring works from the late Gerald Fineberg’s collection are set for May in New York Art from the collection of the late Boston art collector Gerald Fineberg is anticipated to generate over $270 million at a two-part auction at Christie’s…
Canadian police have apprehended eight individuals and seized over 1,000 artworks concerning an extensive art forgery operation involving pieces by Ojibwe artist Norval Morrisseau. The Ontario Provincial Police declared this the most significant art fraud case in the history of the world.…
On Tuesday, art Basel Hong Kong, a premier contemporary art fair in Asia, expressed optimism about the region’s art market prospects. With China and Hong Kong lifting all COVID-related lockdown measures, the event anticipates a resurgence in interest. The annual fair, which…
Confetti and fireworks collected during an 1897 street protest in Cambridge against women’s rights to receive university degrees are set to be digitized for public access. The protest was led by male students who opposed gender equality in education. These artifacts have…
An upcoming exhibition at the University of Cambridge library, “Rising Tide,” celebrates women’s long fight for equal access to higher education. Shockingly, women weren’t allowed to graduate from Cambridge on similar terms until 1948, a time still within living memory. The exhibition…
Margaret Seaman, a 93-year-old knitting enthusiast, has revealed her latest and, she claims, final woollen creation at a craft exhibition: an 8ft (2.4m) x 5ft (1.5m) knitted representation of Buckingham Palace. The Caister-on-Sea resident and great-great-grandmother believes this masterpiece will be a…
A watercolour painting of a Welsh castle by one of the UK’s most celebrated artists is anticipated to fetch up to £50,000 at auction. Created in 1794 by JMW Turner at 19, the painting features Chepstow Castle perched above the River Wye.…
Cambridge city center is hosting an exhibition of artwork addressing the issue of violence against women, created by BA (Hons) Illustration students from Anglia Ruskin University. The pieces were commissioned with the Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s KNOW Violence Against Women project. The exhibition focuses…
A collection of significant historical paintings has been discovered in storage at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, verified by an art historian as original and important works. The five casta paintings, dating back to the early 1700s, have been authenticated by art…