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Greece and Bulgaria have reached a historic agreement for the reciprocal transfer of cultural and religious treasures, paving the way for the return of 48 ecclesiastical artifacts removed from Greek monasteries during World War I in exchange for the remains of Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria.

Freeman's reset the world auction record for Gertrude Abercrombie, as her work Alderman Merriam's Shells sold for $1,352,600 in New York. 

In his Silent Night exhibition at David Zwirner, Scott Kahn turns the familiar landscape into
a site of perceptual dislocation, where memory, estrangement, and belonging converge.

This late Baroque marble maquette depicting Pope Clement XII Corsini enthroned, circa 1736, displays all the hallmarks of its creator, Pietro Bracci (Rome 1700-1773), who is best known for carving the colossal central figure of Oceanus at Rome's Trevi Fountain. 

Requests for recommendations may now be submitted to the Swiss Commission for Historically Problematic Cultural Heritage (CPCH). 

The Supervisory Board of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has announced that Stephanie Rosenthal will be appointed Artistic Director as of spring 2027. 

The Museo Nacional del Prado and the Rijksmuseum announce an in-depth research partnership focusing on women in art and history.

The first artworks have arrived at Kanal Centre Pompidou. The opening of Brussels’ new museum is set for 28 November.

Have you ever taken a photo that looked great in person but somehow did not capture the same feeling when you looked at it later?

At Bortolami, New York, Christine Safa’s Noces (9 September–24 October 2026) examines how experience inhabits the inner world. Sensations, memories and intimacies converge in paintings where perception acquires the fluidity of recollection. Safa approaches painting as an act of attention, translating the encountered world into images shaped by inward experience.

'Everyone will continue to enjoy universal free admission to our world class national museums in England', the UK Government has confirmed.

Sotheby’s is to auction the collection of Argentine collectors Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier and Carlos Pedro Blaquier, who died in 2020 and 2023.

Ed Ruscha has created a poster for “Digger,” a new film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Tom Cruise.

The Leiden Collection announced a major milestone in its mission to preserve and disseminate Rembrandt’s legacy, adding an eighteenth painting by the iconic Old Master to its holdings: Saint John on Patmos depicting the artist’s son, Titus, as the exiled evangelist.

At Tate Modern, Frida: The Making of an Icon (25 June 2026–3 January 2027) explores a
defining contradiction of contemporary visual culture: how an artist who challenged
conventions of identity, gender and representation became one of the world’s most
commercially reproduced figures.

National Gallery Singapore (NGS) and Singapore Art Museum (SAM) today announced a leadership transition.

The Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu is the third recipient of the MUNCH Award, awarded by the museum to honour artistic freedom of expression, which is under increasing political and social pressure.

In a letter to President Trump, Kehinde Wiley asked to buy back his painting from the US State Department, after it was removed from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic in August.

The Art Institute of Chicago is returning Jean Metzinger’s Woman with a Fan to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein (1870–1930).

Nathanaëlle Herbelin’s paintings begin with the intimacy of everyday life: domestic interiors, bodies, relationships and moments that might otherwise remain unnoticed.