The Mexican embassy in Lisbon received three archaeological artifacts from Portuguese authorities, representing different periods and pre-Hispanic cultures and unlawfully taken from Mexico. They will be repatriated in the coming weeks via diplomatic pouch.
Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The team concludes that this type of game was played several centuries earlier than previously assumed.
UNESCO has just launched the latest edition of its flagship report Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity, which analyses a rapidly evolving cultural landscape shaped by digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), shifting global trade dynamics, and mounting threats to artistic freedom.
A Baroque elephant statue in Rome has been vandalised, with its left tusk snapped off, prompting an investigation and condemnation from Italy's culture minister Alessandro Giuli.
Amid the latest US attack on the island, over 100 Cuban artists, intellectuals, dancers, musicians, and writers have called on cultural workers across the world to stand in solidarity with Cuba against the blockade.
The Canary Islands authorities have acquired twelve works of art, including notable pieces by Neapolitan artist Luca Giordano and six paintings attributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo or his workshop.
The Victoria and Albert museum acquired the first ever YouTube video to its collection in a landmark move for the museum.
Celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary this spring, Turner Contemporary announced that David Hockney will realise the next Sunley Window opening on 1 April 2026.
Devyani Saltzman is reported to leave her role as director of arts and participation at London’s Barbican Centre.
For the first time in more than a century, a previously unknown, fully-intact Underground Railroad site has been discovered in Manhattan, at the landmark 1832 Merchant’s House Museum.
Logan Paul’s ‘PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator’, which is widely known as one of the rarest Pokemon cards, was sold for $16.49M at the Goldin Auctions to A.J. Scaramucci on February 16, 2026.
Christie's will present Wassily Kandinsky's large scale canvas Le rond rouge (1939) as the leading highlight of its 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2026.