Rylan Clark, Alison Balsom and Jamie Lloyd sat for episode five of Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year. Here are the heat winners, the remaining sitters and the new judging panel.

Lost for decades in a Michigan mall basement, a 1970 Harry Bertoia sculpture was restored and bought by General Motors for a reported $1 million. Now its restoration is under question.

A French court has ordered a 1902 Pissarro view of Dieppe returned to the heirs of Jewish banker Salomon Flavian and declared its 2024 Sotheby’s sale void.

A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Daniel Sikkema to life in prison for paying a hitman to kill his estranged husband, the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, in Rio de Janeiro.

A federal judge paused construction of the arch at Memorial Circle an hour after the National Capital Planning Commission approved it. Here is what the design includes.

A proclamation under the Antiquities Act puts the Oval Office, Outer Oval Office and Cabinet Room under Interior Department management, but still allows redecorating.

Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips hold their marquee evening sales from November 16 to 18. These are the lots expected to fetch the most.

Brady Lum, the High Museum of Art’s former chief operating officer, was sentenced to a year in federal prison for embezzling more than $600,000 from the Atlanta museum.

A van Gogh painted weeks before the artist’s death, unseen in public for decades, is expected to fetch around $180 million at Sotheby’s New York on November 18.

The Met has announced the 2027 Met Gala theme after its John Galliano exhibition was cancelled. The gala takes place on May 3, 2027.

The Tokyo art collective’s 110,000-square-foot museum will anchor the OCVIBE district in Anaheim and is scheduled to open in 2030.

A court in Aix-en-Provence has opened an investigation after Picasso’s heirs alleged that unauthorised silver and gold pieces made from his designs were sold for millions.