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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.

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. 

The Spanish Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Spain) and the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), an organization affiliated with the International Council of Museums (ICOM), express their deep concern regarding the selection process for the director of the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

​The investigation into the spectacular robbery at the Louvre Museum is taking a new turn as investigators look toward Belgium, Paris Match France and Le Parisien reveal.

In 2022, the board of the House of Orange-Nassau Historic Collections Trust (SHVON) appointed a committee to oversee an independent provenance research into the legality and ethical dimension of the presence of objects of colonial origin belonging to the Royal Collections. 

Following the April 2026 announcement of investments to elevate visitor experience, enhance accessibility, strengthen energy resilience, and support long-term stewardship, Getty has revealed plans to improve the arrival journey to its iconic Getty Center campus. 

The mosaic Rampant Bull in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II will undergo restoration. Due to the constant tumbling of tourists visiting Milan, the pink tiles that make up its testicles are wearing away, forming a small crater.

In a video posted on X Kalshi announced the launch of a prediction market related to art auctions.

Originally part of the decoration for the main altarpiece at Seville's Church of the Hospital of the Venerable Priests, these works were loaned in 1929 for display at the Ibero-American Exposition.

 Tiwani Contemporary, founded fifteen years ago, is closing its doors.

Christie's announces changes to the Board of Christie's International PLC with the appointment of François-Henri Pinault as Chairman and Non-Executive Director and Bryan Lourd as Non-Executive Director.