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A Russian drone and missile strike has damaged parts of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine’s most famous religious complex and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ukraine’s Culture Ministry said.

Legendary art dealer Marian Goodman died on Thursday in a hospital in Los Angeles. She was 97. 

Art is one of the fastest ways to understand a place—because it reveals what people celebrate,
what they remember, and what they refuse to forget. In the Riviera Maya, that story isn’t
confined to museum walls.

January 21, 2026, the State Art Collections Dresden (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden – SKD), Germany, became the target of a deliberate cyberattack.

In his photographic practice, Silvio Zangarini approaches space not as a stable object to be represented, but as a lived, perceptual construction shaped by movement, memory, and attention.

The collection of antique silver has been stolen from the Doesburg Silver Museum in Doesburg, Netherlands.

The Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee has appointed sculptor Karen Newman MRSS to design a new sculpture of the late Monarch in St James Park, London.

When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new evidence from Indonesia dramatically reshapes this picture.

The Southbank Centre announced that Sally Tallant has been appointed Director of the Hayward Gallery and Visual Arts.

£1.5 billion will be invested in cultural organisations over a five-year period – turning the corner on underfunding over the last decade and more.

Autostrada Biennale in Prizren, Kosovo, announced the appointment of Lucia Pietroiusti as the curator of its sixth edition.

Sara Shamma will represent Syria at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (9 May – 22 November 2026). 

This year, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary by presenting an exhibition organized by its founder and chair, Emily Rauh Pulitzer.

Archaeologists have discovered a more than 2,000-year-old public building in Italy that is believed to have been designed by Vitruvius, a Roman architect and engineer considered the father of architecture.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) has announced the appointment of Joe Hill as its new Director and Chief Executive, assuming full responsibility from 14 April.

Marking the 70th anniversary of the Pavilion of Finland, commissioner Frame Contemporary Art Finland will present Aeolian Suite by artist Jenna Sutela at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Serpentine announced that the Mexican architecture studio LANZA atelier, founded by Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, has been selected to design the 2026 Pavilion.

Love notes, gladiator sketches and personal insults have surfaced on a long-studied wall in Pompeii, shedding new light on daily life in the ancient Roman city.

In his sculptural practice, Italian artist Thomas Pucci explores the moment where form is born - where pressure, matter and inner force find their way to the surface.

Germany has returned two small fragments of the Bayeux Tapestry stolen by a German scientist during the Nazi occupation of France in 1941.