More than 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Biennale Foundation for ignoring their demands that the foundation withdraw their names from consideration for the “Visitors’ Lion” awards over the inclusion of national pavilions by Israel and Russia.

Pace Gallery is making one of the sharpest contractions in its 66-year history. The New York-based gallery is cutting about 50 artists and estates from a roster of more than 130 names, while also laying off roughly 50 of its 250 employees, according to the New York Times.

Bukhara Biennial announces the appointment of Kulapat Yantrasast as Artistic Director of its 2027 edition, set to take place September 3–November 21, 2027 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) penned a letter to U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urging the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to propagate rulemaking requiring antiquities dealers to comply with anti-money-laundering laws.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today the recent return of 20 cultural objects, collectively valued at more than $100,000 to the people of Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and New Zealand. The Office returned the objects to each country in six separate repatriation ceremonies this month. 

The printed canvas cave by JR installed on Paris's oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, has been damaged by bad weather.

The exhibition by Lisa Yuskavage at David Zwirner unfolds within a stabilized field of painterly recognition. New collages, chromatic systems, and recursive studio compositions mark a practice that has shifted from aesthetic instability toward institutional consolidation. The work now operates at the center of a system that once derived its force from friction.

On Friday 29 May 2026, NRC published an article suggesting that Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is unwilling to cooperate with provenance research into the Koenigs collection. 

The Spanish Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Spain) and the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), an organization affiliated with the International Council of Museums (ICOM), express their deep concern regarding the selection process for the director of the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

​The investigation into the spectacular robbery at the Louvre Museum is taking a new turn as investigators look toward Belgium, Paris Match France and Le Parisien reveal.

"He could be kind, be horrible, be generous, be mean, be funny, be grumpy, be childish, be old. But mainly he just loved to work. He really was a fascinating man. He enjoyed thinking he could manipulate me, but I could see through him and just laughed at his shenanigans".