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In a sale that marks a landmark moment for Indian archival preservation, a collection of 688 handwritten, autographed reflections by Mahatma Gandhi fetched a record-breaking $1.7 million at a recent online auction hosted by Mumbai-based auction house Saffronart. 

Ana Mendieta is usually introduced through a chain of familiar terms: exile, body, landscape, ritual, belonging.

On 3 October 2026, Design Museum Gent, Belgium, reopens after a four-year transformation, marking a new chapter as Belgium’s largest design museum and a platform where design meets societal change.

The Ulaanbaatar Biennale in Mongolia announced the appointment of Mariam Elnozahy as  chief curator of its second edition.

At least 3 people suffered injuries Tuesday morning after the historical city Granada was rocked by a second earthquake in three days. 

The Van Eeghen family has donated an extremely rare early 17th-century drawing book to the Rijksmuseum. It had been in the family’s possession for more than three centuries, carefully kept and passed down from generation to generation.

Europe’s tallest statue of the Virgin Mary was unveiled on Saturday in Konotopie, Poland.

In an overnight raid, art thieves infiltrated the Museo Regionale Interdisciplinare di Messina (MuMe), stealing four Renaissance paintings attributed to the 15th-century master Antonello da Messina.

​If you have tried to secure tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum, you have likely met the "Sold Out" banner.

Frieze Seoul will move to Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), which will become the fair's new location for 2027. Frieze Seoul 2026, its fifth edition, takes place at COEX in Gangnam from 2–5 September, ahead of the planned redevelopment of the COEX site. 

The exhibition “This Likeness Everlasting,” focusing on the history of photography and its developments, will run for a month at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

The exhibition gives visitors access to ancient.Syrian artefacts brought back afters years abroad.

The Van Gogh Museum recently conducted the first extensive study of Vincent van Gogh’s signatures.

Italian Carabinieri recovered three paintings by French artists Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Henri Matisse that were stolen in March from a private museum belonging to the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma.

Museums exist because every generation inherits an unfinished story.

This fall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will unveil a new suite of sculptures by Liu Wei in the niches of its Fifth Avenue facade, marking the artist’s first major project in the United States and The Met’s first presentation of a commissioned work by an artist from China since 2006. 

Originally created for the Israel Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Ruth Patir’s multi-channel video work brings together ancient archaeology and contemporary digital technology to examine the intersection of gender, motherhood, and the fraught politics of fertility and reproductive rights.

The Catholic Universities Art Triennial is an international initiative promoted by the  Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, bringing together Catholic universities, artists, curators and cultural institutions from around the world.

The Cape Town museum has appointed internationally respected curator and museum leader Elvira Dyangani Ose as its new artistic director, with her tenure beginning on 1 October 2026.

Berlin's Altes Museum, housing the antiquities collection in the centre of the city, is in need for a major renovation.