Sotheby’s will stage a landmark exhibition and sale of masterpieces from the renowned Lewis Collection in London.

The Van Gogh Museum and The Mesdag Collection present the largest European retrospective of work by James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) in thirty years – and the first ever to be held in the Netherlands. 

The Mauritshuis does not have to return 25 artworks claimed by the heirs of art historian and former museum director Abraham Bredius.

The Italian Ministry of Culture has made a costly appraisal blunder. A Madonna and Child painting by an anonymous master from the Emilia-Romagna region was originally dated more recent than it actually is.

The authorities in Sevastopol claim that a museum dedicated to the Crimean War caught fire in the attack. 

The Phillips Collection announced a $15 million gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation—the largest in the museum’s history.

Artists have united in response to the potential presence of immigration agents at the World Cup 2026 soccer tournament.

René Magritte’s The Castle of the Pyrenees (1959) has been accidentally damaged by a young museum visitor. 

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.