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It's 11 PM in Lahore, and the electricity has just gone out again—another scheduled load-shedding session that wasn't quite so scheduled.

A century ago, Belgian artist Marthe Donas carved out a niche for herself at the heart of the diverse and colourful European avant-garde. Today, her pioneering work is being shown in dialogue with work of Alexander Archipenko and other influential modernists.

Over 300 cultural organisations and almost 900 artists and cultural workers from Belgium and The Netherlands have signed a petition calling for a boycott of Israeli cultural organisations in protest against the continuing genocidal violence in Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank.

The art market downturn continued to play out at Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s in Hong Kong this past weekend, with the auctions turnover achieving an eight-year low.

The Nasher Sculpture Center announces Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj as the 2027 Nasher Prize Laureate, becoming the ninth and youngest artist to receive the award.

The Royal Academy today announces plans to expand its Collection Gallery in Burlington Gardens into an ambitious and elegant double-height space. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Republic of Iraq announced today preliminary findings from a collaborative research project into a copper-alloy sculpture from ca. 2500 BCE, Vessel Stand with Ibex.

Historically occupied by residential apartments and later used as a conservation and maintenance workshop, Casa Batlló’s second floor will, for the first time, open to the public as a gallery dedicated to contemporary art.

The Venice Biennale 2026 is planning to set up an alternative 230 sqm pavilion for Israel inside the historic Arsenale.

Güreş, known for her poetic, witty and critical engagement with cultural symbols, gender issues and social inequalities across multiple media, was unanimously selected by the Advisory Board of the Türkiye Pavilion.

The Städel Museum in Germany announced the start of extensive conservation and restoration measures, supplemented by intensive scientific research, on one of the most important works in its collection: The Blinding of Samson (1636) by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn.

Italy’s Carabinieri have seized 21 artworks purportedly by Salvador Dalí on suspicion they were forgeries, after being tipped off by the Surrealist's Fundación Gala – Salvador Dalì in Spain about suspected anomalies in the works.

A museum dedicated to Maqbool Fida Husain, India’s priciest Modernist, will open in Doha, Qatar, next month.

UNESCO on Monday announced the launch of a virtual museum showcasing hundreds of looted artefacts in a bid to draw attention to the trafficking of cultural property.

The National Pavilion UAE announced the appointment of Bana Kattan, Curator and Associate Head of Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, as curator of the UAE’s upcoming participation in the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2026.

One of China’s most important imperial sites reopens following a two-decade conservation in partnership with the Palace Museum and World Monuments Fund. 

On 24 September 2025, the chairperson of the European Capitals of Culture Expert Panel announced that Leuven has been recommended to become the European Capital of Culture 2030 in Belgium.

Riemer den Ouden's work invites us to step away from daily reality and enter a world where light, color and emotion take center stage.

Art Cologne, founded in 1967, will revive an edition on the island of Mallorca from 9 to 12 April 2026. Art Cologne Palma Mallorca returns nearly two decades after a one-off edition in 2007.

Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy calls the brooch, dated to the Early Bronze Age, “one of the most important finds of the past century.”