2025, the year of the return of the greats in literature and thefts and records in art

2025 marked the return of two of the big bestselling names: Ken Follett and Dan Brownand in the art world it was the year of Louvre robberythe auction documents and finally the opening of the Great Egyptian Museum.

This year, literature was littered with names such as Ken Follett and Dan Brown, the great Canadian author Margaret Atwood and the late Frederick Forsyth, as well as Woody Allen with his first foray into the world of the novel.

After several years since his last novel, Follett returned in September 2025 with The circle of daysan epic novel set 4,500 years ago centered around the enigmatic Stonehenge, exploring the lives behind the construction of the iconic Neolithic monument in the south of England.

A few days later, Dan Brown also returned to the bookstores The final secreta new part of his most famous sagastarring Robert Langdon, who places the symbology expert in a plot full of mysteries and twists in the city of Prague.

This year the Canadian Margaret Atwood, author of the super hit The Handmaid’s Tale and other works that have shaped contemporary narrative, he published his memoirs, Book of my lifea comprehensive and insightful chronicle of his life which was released in November 2025. Atwood attributes her nomadic childhood in the forests of northern Quebec to her career as one of the world’s most influential writers, as well as her relationship with the late writer Graeme Gibson.

British author and spy novelist Frederick Forsyth died on June 9, leaving behind unpublished stories Odessa’s revengethe continuation of his success The Odessa Filesthat reached bookstores posthumously on November 18th in its English version, while in Spain and Latin America we will have to wait until January 22 to enjoy this novel in which the author returns to the spirit of Nazism.

Shortly before his 90th birthday, Woody Allen released in September his first novel, What about tree?after a long career focused primarily on cinema, autobiography and short stories.

The story follows Asher Baum, a neurotic middle-aged Jewish writer whose literary career and personal life are in crisis: his third marriage is on the rocks, he is receiving lukewarm reviews, his renowned publisher has sidelined him, and he is also dealing with the overly close relationship between his wife and his successful son. All the ingredients of the Allen universe on 192 pages.

The art world has seen record auctions, retrospective exhibitions and changes of direction at major museums, but the Louvre heist will undoubtedly go down as one of the industry’s historic moments.

October 19th will go down in history as one of the darkest for the Louvre Museum suffered one of the largest robberies in its history and his safety has since been called into question. While, The loot still doesn’t appear.

Four people were arrested for entering through the facade Get eight priceless pieces in just 8 minutes which belonged to the French Crown and is estimated to be worth 88 million euros (approximately $103 million).

After twenty years of work and countless delays, The Egyptian Museum opened its doors in 2025. The place is a huge complex of 500,000 seats shows more than 100,000 pieces from 7,000 years of historyfrom predynastic Egypt to the Greco-Roman period. You can see everything from an imposing, multi-ton figure of Ramses II to the colossal burial ships of Cheops and a golden burial mask of Tutankhamun.

Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” is being auctioned in New York for $236 million, making it the most expensive work of modern art in history. A piece confiscated by the Nazis before being recovered by the protagonist’s family, who were clients of the painter, and finally acquired by the son of businesswoman Estée Lauder in the 1980s.

The surreal self-portrait “The Dream (The Bed)” by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, In November, it became the most expensive work by a woman when it sold at Sotheby’s for $54.7 million. from New York. Kahlo surpassed the American Georgia O’Keeffe, whose work “Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1” sold for $44.4 million in 2014.

Caravaggio, the chiaroscuro revolutionary, found his artistic fame in Rome, but also his personal misfortune. More than four centuries later, the Eternal City gathered a great exhibition with paintings from half the world, from Madrid to the USAto immerse yourself in his life and style. The Barberini Palace brought together 24 paintings by the Baroque master, some of which were recently discovered, such as the “Ecce Homo” from Madrid, and which hung for the first time in an international exhibition of its kind.