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The Sagrada Família completed the Tower of Jesus Christ, the basilica's central tower, on Friday, reaching its maximum height of 172.5 metres, 144 years after Antoni Gaudí laid the first stone.

The Mexican embassy in Lisbon received three archaeological artifacts from Portuguese authorities, representing different periods and pre-Hispanic cultures and unlawfully taken from Mexico. They will be repatriated in the coming weeks via diplomatic pouch.

Researchers have used AI to reconstruct the rules of a board game carved into a stone found in the Dutch city of Heerlen. The team concludes that this type of game was played several centuries earlier than previously assumed.

UNESCO has just launched the latest edition of its flagship report Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity, which analyses a rapidly evolving cultural landscape shaped by digital transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), shifting global trade dynamics, and mounting threats to artistic freedom.

A Baroque elephant statue in Rome has been vandalised, with its left tusk snapped off, prompting an investigation and condemnation from Italy's culture minister Alessandro Giuli.

Amid the latest US attack on the island, over 100 Cuban artists, intellectuals, dancers, musicians, and writers have called on cultural workers across the world to stand in solidarity with Cuba against the blockade.

The Canary Islands authorities have acquired twelve works of art, including notable pieces by Neapolitan artist Luca Giordano and six paintings attributed to Bartolomé Esteban Murillo or his workshop.

The Victoria and Albert museum acquired the first ever YouTube video to its collection in a landmark move for the museum.

Celebrating the gallery’s 15th anniversary this spring, Turner Contemporary announced that David Hockney will realise the next Sunley Window opening on 1 April 2026.

Devyani Saltzman is reported to leave her role as director of arts and participation at London’s Barbican Centre.

For the first time in more than a century, a previously unknown, fully-intact Underground Railroad site has been discovered in Manhattan, at the landmark 1832 Merchant’s House Museum.

Logan Paul’s ‘PSA 10 Pikachu Illustrator’, which is widely known as one of the rarest Pokemon cards, was sold for $16.49M at the Goldin Auctions to A.J. Scaramucci on February 16, 2026.

Christie's will present Wassily Kandinsky's large scale canvas Le rond rouge (1939) as the leading highlight of its 20^th/21^st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March 2026.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport UK and the Saudi Ministry of Culture have jointly announced the year 2029 as the official UK-Saudi Year of Culture following the official visit of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Henrike Naumann, born in Zwickau (East Germany) in 1984, belonged to a generation of German artists who developed a unique artistic voice amid the tensions between political reality, local roots, cultural independence and international aspirations.

Italy’s public broadcaster RAI is facing political scrutiny after an altered version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man appeared in the opening sequence of its coverage of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.

Passion and desire, lust and jealousy, cunning and deceit — few classical texts have stirred the imagination of artists as deeply as Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 

A group involved in a large-scale ticket fraud at the Louvre Museum in Paris has been apprehended.

Between June 13 and October 3, 2027, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany, will once again transform the urban landscape, inviting visitors to rediscover the city through the lens of public art.

The Denon Wing of the Louvre has suffered damage due to a water leak, a union representative reports.