09 December 2025 Nnena Kalu’s award represented a watershed moment for the international art world, the chair of the judges said. Photograph: Courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace In one of the most talked-about moments of the 2025 art season, Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has been awarded the prestigious Turner Prize, becoming the first person with a learning disability to receive the honour since the prize’s inception in 1984. The announcement came on December 9 in Bradford,

02 December 2025 The Winter egg was commissioned in 1913 by Nicholas II. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Zuma Press/Shutterstock In a dazzling display of artistry, history and sheer monetary heft, a jewel-studded masterpiece commissioned more than a century ago for the mother of Russia’s last tsar sold at auction in London for a record-breaking £22.9 million, reaffirming its place as one of the most coveted objects from a vanished imperial world. This exquisite object, known a

26 November 2025 Poor decapitated piglet … Scarecrow III, 2006, which has its origins in a McDonagh story. Photograph: © Estate of Paula Rego. Courtesy Ostrich Arts Ltd and Cristea Roberts Gallery Between 2005 and 2007, Paula Rego entered what many consider the most powerful and unsettling phase of her career, a period when her work fused deeply personal history with stark, brutal storytelling. The trigger was a dark play she saw in 2003, a story that would radically reshape

22 November 2025 Hollywood legend Barbra Streisand is publicly expressing regret over a decision she made nearly three decades ago selling a painting by the Austrian master Gustav Klimt just days after another of his works sold for a staggering $236 million at auction. Streisand posted on Instagram that she bought Miss Ria Munk on her Deathbed in 1969 for $17,000, which she then sold in 1998 after shifting her interest to architecture and the Arts & Crafts movement. The timin

14 November 2025 CCTV of Larry Fraser breaking in to the Grove gallery in Fitzrovia, central London.Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA In a dramatic twist that blends street-art iconography with criminal desperation, 49-year-old Larry Fraser has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after the theft of a limited-edition print by the elusive graffiti artist Banksy from London’s Grove Gallery in September 2024. According to court records, Fraser carried out the smash-and-grab bu

07 November 2025 Pierre Moscovici discusses the heist. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters In a stark report published by France’s national audit office, the Louvre Museum’s recent robbery of crown jewels estimated at €88 million was described as “a deafening wake-up call” highlighting the grave deficiencies in the institution’s security and maintenance systems. The audit covered the museum’s operations from 2018 to 2024 and revealed that despite sufficient funding, the Lou

1 November2025 Joseph Langelinck in full flow. Photograph: Judith Jockel/The Guardian At the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf a new kind of museum tour is turning heads not for quiet contemplation but for loud provocation. Dubbed the “Grumpy Guide” experience, performance-artist Carl Brandi, who takes on the persona of the curmudgeonly art historian “Joseph Langelinck,” leads visitors through the galleries with derision, sarcasm and confrontational remarks aimed at both the exhibits