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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.

Rembrandt based the barking dog in The Night Watch on an early 17th-century drawing by Adriaen van de Venne (1590–1662), as revealed by art historical research carried out as part of Operation Night Watch, the largest and most comprehensive study ever undertaken of Rembrandt’s most famous painting. 

Romania has collected EUR 5.7 million in insurance compensation after four cultural treasures, namely the famed Dacian Helmet of Coțofenești and three gold bracelets, were stolen earlier this year from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands, the Romanian Ministry of Culture announced.

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British sculptor Martin Jennings has been appointed to create the sculpture of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for the UK’s national memorial in St James’s Park. 

Kirsty Wain captures the living spirit of the landscape through bold, lyrical forms and a palette that transforms nature into something dreamlike.

New College of Florida plans to honor recently murdered activist Charlie Kirk with a statue on campus, the arts institution announced on social media.