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Phillips, the global auction house, today announced results for its spring 2026 season, reporting total auction sales of $507 million — a 60% increase on spring 2025 — with a global sell-through rate of 90% by lot.

Paintings by Rubens, Caravaggio and Zoffany are among 120 masterpieces from the Royal Collection going on display for visitors to Buckingham Palace from Thursday, 9 July, as part of a major re-display in one of the Palace’s most important reception rooms.

More than 30 new artworks from one of the world’s foremost collections of American art arrive on Samsung Art TVs, spotlighting notable artists Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Agnes Pelton, Joseph Stella, and Wayne Thiebaud.

The British Museum has announced the 2026 British Museum Ball. Taking place on Saturday 17 October 2026 it will once again be the defining highlight of London's cultural and social calendar this autumn.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Professor Mladen Popović of the University of Groningen a €2.5 million Advanced Grant for a five-year international research project that will investigate one of the most fundamental questions in Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship: where were the scrolls produced and copied, and what can their origins reveal about centers of learning, scribal culture, and the transmission of knowledge in ancient Judea?

Monday's fire at Brussels’ Kanal museum has delayed the opening of the new building for the architecture centre’s collections and archives. However, the rest of the museum is still due to open on 28 November.

For more than five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper has been something people travel to see. Now, more than 113,000 people around the world are helping to rebuild it.

A temporary export bar has been placed on two prehistoric handaxes representing some of the oldest human settlements in Britain.

Thieves stole jewelry from the Lalique glass museum in Alsace, France, early Sunday morning, worth several million euros.

Juan Andrés Hurtado Baeza (JAHB) is a technologist, researcher, and generative artist. His determination to understand the algorithm of beauty led him to found REIVGEN, a pioneering art studio where users can shape unique physical sculptures by exploring their aesthetic intuition with a single button.

A fire has broken out at the Kanal-Centre Pompidou museum in Brussels. The fire department is on the scene and has already managed to extinguish most of the fire. According to the fire department, no one was present in the building at the time of the fire.

For 16 years, Angela Merkel shaped the landscape of German and global politics as Federal Chancellor. Now, five years after leaving office, her official portrait has been revealed to the public.

KPN is to become the new Founder of the Rijksmuseum, the museum's leading corporate partner.

The British Museum had its “single biggest day of ticket sales” for an exhibition in its history, bringing in more than £2.5 million from those keen to see the Bayeux Tapestry.

The Yayoi Kusama exhibition is completely sold out until the beginning of August. To accommodate the high demand, the museum now plans to offer extended services, including round-the-clock opening hours.

Realising a Combined Total of £50.7 million/ $66.9 million/ €58.8 million Led by Lawrence's Record-Breaking Portrait of The 1st Duke of Wellington and an Important Egyptian Limestone Pair Statue.

In 1977, in the small village of Lucim in north-central Poland, a group of artists began an
experiment that today deserves to be read not as a regional curiosity, but as one of the most original European examples of socially engaged, site-specific and community-
based art.

The couple arrested by the NYPD for climbing the Empire State Building in Manhattan has been identified as Angela Nikolau and Ivan Kuznetsov, who starred in the Netflix documentary "Skywalkers: A Love Story" in 2024 about their rooftop climbs.

Following a landmark €13 million transformation, Tallinn Art Hall (Tallinna Kunstihoone) will reopen to the public on 13 November 2026, unveiling a radically renewed institution that combines one of Estonia's most important cultural landmarks with a future-facing vision for contemporary art.

Birgit Donker, the former director of the Fotomuseum Rotterdam, was wrongfully dismissed. The court ruled that allegations of social insecurity and a culture of fear were unproven. Consequently, the Fotomuseum must pay Donker €400,000, equivalent to two years' salary.