Tone Hansen has been appointed Chief Superintendent and Director of Moderna Museet in Sweden. She will therefore step down as Director of MUNCH and assume her new role on 1 September.
A court in the Netherlands sentenced three men to 3 years and 11 months in prison for their role in the Drents Museum heist.
The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) announced the appointment of internationally acclaimed curator Cecilia Alemani as curator of the 15th Taipei Biennial 2027.
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.
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport has appointed Dawn Airey CBE as Chair of Arts Council England for a term of 4 years starting on 1 August 2026.
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.