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The Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu is the third recipient of the MUNCH Award, awarded by the museum to honour artistic freedom of expression, which is under increasing political and social pressure.

In a letter to President Trump, Kehinde Wiley asked to buy back his painting from the US State Department, after it was removed from the US Embassy in the Dominican Republic in August.

National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens has won the European Museum Academy Art Museum Award 2026, a major European distinction recognising museums that place art in innovative and pioneering contexts to address contemporary societal issues.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and John Cornyn (R-TX), authors of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, filed an amicus brief defending the legislation’s constitutionality in ongoing litigation over the recovery of Nazi-looted art.