Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Saturday. The tombs were found in the 1990s by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp, though she had only reached the entrance gate “but never entered”, the ministry said. It said that both tombs, which were given numbers by Kampp, were likely to date back to dynasties of the New Kingdom, which lasted several centuries until about 3,000 years ago. Since Kampp’s discovery, “both tombs were left untouched” an Egyptian archaeological mission started work. Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany was in Luxor

Forum Auctions is taking 40 works by British street artist Banksy to New York. New Yorkers have a particularly strong affinity with the artist following his 31 day “Better out than in” residency in the Big Apple during 2010. The works on offer provide a solid cross section of his commercially produced prints from the earliest Rude Copper (2002) to his most recent open edition Box Set, available for purchase only from the ‘gift shop’ of his Walled Off Hotel project in Jerusalem (opened 2017). Forum Auctions has become a leading auction house for Banksy editions having sold over 100 examples over the past 12 months for a total of US$ 2,000,000. All works in the sale are offered with certificates from the artist’s authenticating body, Pest Control Office.

A painting of Donald Trump dressed as Wonder Woman and defeating “Rocket Man” — North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un — is a star attraction at international art festival Art Basel, which opens Thursday in Miami Beach. Also on display at the fair — which has become the Americas’ main art dealing hub since its first event in 2002 — are various works by Roy Lichtenstein and a painting by Willem de Kooning valued at $35 million. The painting featuring the US president, entitled “President Trump Becomes a Wonder Woman, Unifies the Country and Fights Rocket Man,” was one of the top works at a private viewing on Wednesday. The parody piece by Peter Saul shows Trump in the iconic garb of the female superhero, punching caricatures of Kim Jong-Un. A 1979 painting by the Netherlands’ de Kooning is likely the show’s most expensive, valued at $35 million, according to Paul Gray of the Richard Grey Gallery, where it is being shown.

“Salvator Mundi,” a painting of Christ by Leonardo Da Vinci recently sold for a record $450 million, is heading to the Louvre Abu Dhabi in a coup for the bold new museum, it announced Wednesday. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the first museum to bear the Louvre name outside France, has been billed as “the first universal museum in the Arab world” in a sign of the oil-rich emirate’s global ambitions. “Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi is coming to #LouvreAbuDhabi,” the museum said on Twitter in Arabic, English and French, displaying an image of the 500-year-old work. The announcement only partially resolves the mystery over the painting’s sale last month in New York for $450.3 million, with auction house Christie’s steadfastly declining to identify the buyer. “Congratulations,” Christie’s said in a tweeted reply to the Louvre Abu Dhabi.