Articles

Over the past two years, the Institute for Art and Law (IAL) has been working closely with the Oxford Uehiro Institute on a tool to help museums with moral decision making on questions of restitution. 

One of the most important sculpture acquisitions in the history of the Städel Museum, Gothic Madonna returns to the Altenberg Altar in the Städel.

Residents of Vlkolínec, a village in Slovakia, have called for its Unesco World Heritage status to be revoked after an overwhelming influx of tourists.

Tate announced that Tarek Atoui will create the next annual Hyundai Commission. 

The Courtauld today announced a new gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation — bringing the Foundation’s total support for the institution to £20 million — supporting the creation of two new galleries dedicated to contemporary art. The galleries are expected to open in 2029 as part of the development of the Courtauld’s new world-class campus at Somerset House.

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land announce the imminent commencement of restoration works in the Grotto of the Nativity, the hallowed site revered across Christendom as the place of the Incarnation.

In 2025, 1.95 million people visited the site of the Auschwitz Memorial, which represents a 7% increase compared to the previous year.

The Louvre Museum in Paris has closed its doors for the third time in January due to ongoing strikes by staff demanding increased hiring, higher wages, and improved working conditions.

A Russian drone and missile strike has damaged parts of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine’s most famous religious complex and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ukraine’s Culture Ministry said.

Legendary art dealer Marian Goodman died on Thursday in a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 97. 

Art is one of the fastest ways to understand a place—because it reveals what people celebrate,
what they remember, and what they refuse to forget. In the Riviera Maya, that story isn’t
confined to museum walls.

January 21, 2026, the State Art Collections Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – SKD), Germany, became the target of a deliberate cyberattack.

In his photographic practice, Silvio Zangarini approaches space not as a stable object to be represented, but as a lived, perceptual construction shaped by movement, memory, and attention.

The collection of antique silver has been stolen from the Doesburg Silver Museum in Doesburg, Netherlands.

The Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee has appointed sculptor Karen Newman MRSS to design a new sculpture of the late Monarch in St James Park, London.

When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new evidence from Indonesia dramatically reshapes this picture.

The Southbank Centre announced that Sally Tallant has been appointed Director of the Hayward Gallery and Visual Arts.

£1.5 billion will be invested in cultural organisations over a five-year period – turning the corner on underfunding over the last decade and more.

Autostrada Biennale in Prizren, Kosovo, announced the appointment of Lucia Pietroiusti as the curator of its sixth edition.

Sara Shamma will represent Syria at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (9 May – 22 November 2026).