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187 Artists, curators, and art workers participating in the 61 Biennale have signed an open letter demanding that Israel be excluded from the event, saying that the Biennale’s “complicity with the attempted destruction of Palestinian life must end.”

On Monday 2 March, the Golestan Palace in Tehran, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was reportedly damaged by debris and the shock wave following an airstrike to the Arag Square, located in the buffer zone of the site in the Iranian capital.

The Venice Biennale said in a statement on Tuesday that it has not breached any of the sanctions imposed on Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine after its controversial decision to allow Russia to have a pavilion at this year's exhibition.

The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) announced that three-time Academy Award–winning actor Meryl Streep has made a significant seven-figure gift to advance the future of women’s history.

Rong Museum, a flower-like structure within the M80 Campus in Shenzhen’s Houhai district, will open in 2027.

The New Museum, Manhattan’s only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, announced that its 60,000 sq ft building expansion designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Executive Architect Cooper Robertson will open to the public on March 21, 2026.

Commissioned by The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) and conducted by Deloitte as part of an independent research program, the annual TEFAF Economic Impact Report evaluates the fair’s contributions both to Maastricht and to the Netherlands.

Recent revelations concerning a former parish priest of Fully have brought to light the possible misappropriation of all or part of the 28 works by Charles Frédéric Brun. 

The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts Board of Trustees voted unanimously to temporarily close the Center for a comprehensive revitalization project.

The legislation aims to assist in recovering art looted by the Nazis and to support Holocaust survivors in reclaiming their heritage.

The real identity of street artist Banksy, whose works have sold for millions of dollars, has finally been revealed, press agency Reuters says.

Iran plans to turn the girls' school that was bombed on the first day of the war into a museum commemorating the victims who died in the bombing.

The global art market returned to growth in 2025, with sales increasing by 4% year-on-year in value to an estimated $59.6 billion.

Russian authorities announced criminal charges against Netherlands, Ukraine and the Allard Pierson Museum over the return of Crimean gold artifacts to Ukraine.

Women played a vital role in the artistic life of the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750. Yet classical art history has largely ignored their key status within the creative economy

The European Commission has warned it could suspend EU grant funding for the Venice Biennale if Russia is allowed to reopen its pavilion at this year's exhibition.

The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) sponsors and directly funds 15 museums and galleries in England. Between 2019 and 2024, the museums and galleries included seven of the top 10 most visited free visitor attractions in England.

An illegally excavated marble bust is to be repatriated to Italy, years after it was unwittingly sold to the University of Wellington, New Zealand, from the black market in antiquities.

The deed of purchase for Caravaggio’s Portrait of Monsignor Maffeo Barberini was signed today at the Ministry of Culture in the presence of the Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli, the Director General of Museums Massimo Osanna, the Director of the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in Rome Thomas Clement Salomon, and the notary Luca Amato.

David Blandy (1976, Lives & works in Brighton) is an artist examining global structures of control and networks of resistance, in areas that range from ecology, history and science to arenas of play.