The National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam, the setting for the National Remembrance Day on May 4, has been defaced with red paint.

Anish Kapoor urged for the exclusion of the United States from the Venice Biennale due to what he described as the nation's hateful politics and military aggression. 

The Pergamon Museum, located on Berlin’s Museum Island – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – will reopen its doors to the public on 4 June 2027. 

With regard to the National Participations in the 61st International Art Exhibition, In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, it has been announced that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not participate.

The National Gallery of Art has received a transformational gift of $116 million from the Mitchell P. Rales Family Foundation to endow Across the Nation, the museum’s nationwide loan partnership program launched in 2025. 

After 30 years of developing Manifesta, the European Nomadic Biennial, into one of the most influential experimental cultural platforms in Europe, Founding Director Hedwig Fijen will step down on the 5th of October 2026.

This summer’s retrospective exhibition of the sculptor Carel Visser in the Rijksmuseum Gardens features 13 monumental works. 

Italy's Ministry of Culture is investigating the Biennale due to Russia's admission to the 2026 exhibition. The EU is threatening to cancel two million euros in funding for the event.

A large sculpture in London of street artist Banksy appeared overnight at Waterloo Place in central London.

German artist Georg Baselitz, a painter, sculptor, and printmaker, who was known for his methods of painting subjects upside down, has died at age 88

The entire jury of the ‌Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition has resigned, organisers say, a week after the panel announced it would not hand out awards ‌to artists from Russia or Israel.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., today announced the return of 657 antiquities collectively valued at nearly $14 million to the people of India.