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Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture has announced that the Common Ground Festival, produced by Benchmark, will be held from December 24, 2025, to January 6, 2026, at Misk City in Riyadh. The festival forms part of the Saudi-Chinese Cultural Year 2025 and coincides with the celebration of 35 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations. […]
2025 marked a transformative year for Indian art, defined by centenary celebrations of modernist giants, record-shattering auctions totaling over ₹1,000 crore in high-value sales, and global institutional milestones like the M.F. Husain museum opening in Doha. M.F. Husain’s Untitled (Gram Yatra) set auction recordSold for ₹118.62 crore ($13.8 million) at Christie’s New York in March, becoming the
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Nestled in the snowy expanse of Rovaniemi, just above the Arctic Circle, the Santa Claus Village (Joulupukin Pajakylä) is one of Finland’s most enchanting cultural landmarks. Marketed as the official home of Santa Claus, this northern settlement is where folklore becomes a living tradition. Far from being a mere holiday tourist attraction, Santa Claus Village embodies Finland’s unique
The exhibition Ce qui se trame – Histoires tissées entre l’Inde et la France explores four centuries of artistic and commercial exchanges between India and France through textiles. It opened on December 4, 2025, at the Mobilier National’s Galerie des Gobelins in Paris and runs until January 4th, 2026 Co-curated by designer Christian Louboutin, who handles artistic
GALLERYSKE, New Delhi, presents છાયારાષ્ટ્ર · Republic of Shadows, an exhibition by artist, designer, and writer Somnath Bhatt, on view from December 17, 2025, to January 21, 2026. This marks Bhatt’s first solo presentation in India and follows his growing international recognition for a practice that moves fluidly between digital form-making, mythic imagination, and material experimentation. The exhibition
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A new mural by the elusive British street artist Banksy has appeared in Bayswater, west London, marking one of his latest confirmed works. The piece, painted on a wall above a row of garages on Queen’s Mews, depicts two children lying on the ground dressed in wellington boots, coats, and winter bobble hats—one of them
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“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” — Sydney J. Harris I asked ChatGPT to act as an art professor and tell me what kind of art, in its opinion, AI couldn’t make. This is what it said in a
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and a private US collector have agreed to return dozens of antiquities to Turkey, following investigations into their alleged illicit excavation and export. The works, which span multiple ancient Anatolian cultures, were identified by Turkish authorities and US investigators as having
Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer, a central figure of postwar European abstraction best known for his radical “overpaintings,” has died at the age of 96. He passed away on a Thursday in Upper Austria, shortly after his 96th birthday, according to reports from Austria’s APA news agency and statements from his family. Early life and training
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AstaGuru’s “Historic Masterpieces” auction of Modern Indian Art has achieved a white-glove result, recording a 100% sell-through rate with all 87 lots sold. Held online from 14–17 December 2025, the sale realised a total of INR 1,63,65,61,028 (approximately USD 18.49 million). The auction set new world records for several modern Indian artists, including Rabindranath Tagore,
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