The number of stolen antiquities the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office repatriated recently to three countries including 16 seized from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Italy received the vast bulk of them - 31 - including an ancient marble head depicting Alexander the Great as a sun god, with two Visigoth pendants going to Spain and a manuscript to Hungary.

The winner of Australia's most prestigious Indigenous art prize has triumphed with a piece paying tribute to her tribal ancestors and one ancestor in particular - her father.

Gaypalani Wanambi picked up the $65,000 Telstra Art Award at the 2025 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards at Darwin’s Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory on Friday.

Her work, Burwu Blossom, is made from salvaged street signs painted with aerosol cans to tell the story of the ancestral founder of the Marrakulu Country.

She told Melbourne's Broadsheet magazine she knew the work had the approval of her late father, fellow artist Wukun Wanambi, saying: "I showed those designs to [my father], this is when he told me, ‘Great! You will take this design now as your own, and you will paint this when I am no more.'"

Could Peter Doig be the man who brings James Brown to London's Serpentine South Gallery?

The painter's newly announced exhibition, House of Music, will see his work accompanied by music he has chosen played through vintage speakers to create a multi-sensory show.

Doig has never been shy of talking about his love of music - the catalog for his 1988 show, Blizzard Seventy-seven, at London's Whitechapel Gallery included an appendix detailing his eclectic music collection from the aforementioned Godfather of Soul to Prince, Patti Smith and country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons.

The Serpentine show, which runs from October 10 to February 8, will include portraits of musicians and of people dancing and listening to music.

Doig said he had "tried over the years to make paintings that are imagistic and atmospheric in the way music can be".

Thieves have taken an upside-down statue of a controversial Swiss philanthropist from the central square of the city of Neuchatel.

The monument by Mathias Pfund showed banker David de Pury - who made some of his fortune from slavery - upside down with his head stuck in the plinth. It was erected three years ago and stood next to a larger 1855 statue of the banker.

It follows several buildings and other monuments in the city being defaced by graffiti. A city spokeswoman said the theft was "all the more regrettable" as the stolen monument was "the result of a reappraisal of our city's colonial past and a process of social cohesion and reconciliation".

Keith Haring's 18-foot-long mural at New York's Carmine Street swimming pool will be preserved as part of a $164 million restoration project in the city's West Village.

Mayor Eric Adams said the mural, which dates from 1987, would stay in place despite the scheme including the building of a new outdoor pool.

The mural was restored by the Keith Haring foundation 10 years after it was first unveiled and the city said it would "continue to partner" with the foundation "to preserve this beloved artwork as part of the site’s reimagining".

1 - Tributes have been paid to Italian gallery owner Luisa Laureati who has died aged 86. She founded the Galleria dell'Oca in Rome in 1965 and worked with artists including Mario Schifano and Franco Angeli.

2 - Japanese digital art collective teamLab is opening a permanent museum in Kyoto on October 7. The building, which at more than 10,000 square meters will be its biggest site in Japan, will include a floating sculpture currently on show in its exhibitions in Abu Dhabi and Miami.

3 - A court has ruled the Polish government's decision to fire the veteran director of Warsaw's Polish History Museum was unlawful. The then culture minister Hanna Wroblewska said Robert Kostro's sacking last year was down to financial mismanagement but she was accused by his supporters of political interference.