Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, created between 1914 and 1916, has sold for $236.4 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York following twenty minutes of bidding.
The Illa Carlemany cinema in Andorra la Vella has hosted the premiere of NIX: Somos gente de nieve, a documentary produced by Grandvalira Resorts in collaboration with the Andorran studio Citric.
One of the largest operations in recent years targeting the illegal trade in cultural heritage has unfolded in Bulgaria — the country where police first uncovered artefacts that became the key to a Europe-wide and Balkan-wide investigation.
American actor Tom Cruise received an Honorary Oscar at the 2025 Governors Awards in Los Angeles.
Two Ukrainian books have been included in the shortlist of the 2025 Witold Pilecki International Book Award, one of Europe’s leading prizes recognising works on totalitarianism, political violence and human rights violations in Central and Eastern Europe.
Paul McCartney has released his first new recording in five years — an almost completely silent track created as a gesture of protest against the use of artists’ work by artificial intelligence without their permission.
At the closing of the 26th One World film festival in Bratislava, organizers screened what they described as one of the strongest documentaries of the program, My Dear Theo by Ukrainian director Alisa Kovalenko.
The Lviv choir “Homin” has announced that it will not participate in the concert program “Yedynyi Kvartal,” scheduled for December 6–7 in Kyiv.