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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.”

From 26-27 September, Christie's presented the 20th/21st Century Autumn Auctions in Hong Kong which totalled US$105,529,147, and were the highest value auctions in the Asia market this season.

Marina Abramović will make history in 2026 as the first living woman artist to be honored with a major exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice.

The Dutch government has decided to return the Dubois Collection to Indonesia. This decision was made by the Minister of Education, Culture, and Science, Gouke Moes, based on the recommendation of the independent Colonial Collections Committee. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, which currently manages the collection, will cooperate in the restitution.

The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) released a report revealing that there are major gaps in the provision of publicly accessible provenance research on potentially looted objects that were in Europe during the Holocaust and are currently held by U.S. museums. 

A groundbreaking new study suggests that Homo sapiens could have begun to emerge over one million years ago - pushing back our species’ origins by some 400,000 years compared with genetic estimates. 

Christie's offers three important works by Lucian Freud coming from the same private collection - Self-portrait Fragment, Woman with a Tulip, and Sleeping Head – to be offered in its 20^th/21^st Century: London Evening Sale on 15 October 2025.

The painting belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Old National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums) and had previously been considered a war loss.

Tom Colaux, a Belgian artist at the intersection of painting, photography, and audiovisual creation founded the agency CLXpictures and, for over ten years, Colaux has been developing a raw, instinctive, and visceral artistic language.