Plus: two archaeologists arrested in Iraq | American Institute of Architects condemns Trump's triumphal arch | Whitney staff to strike | chief paintings and sculpture curator Ann Temkin steps down at MoMA and other museum appointments
Plus: staff at the V&A go on strike; and the Mauritshuis, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Bavarian State Paintings Collection return Nazi-looted art
Plus: Trump renews threat to demolish Kennedy Center | United States returns 58 cultural objects to China | Russia’s most important icon reportedly damaged
Plus: two paintings by Renoir stolen from the Renoir Museum in Nice | anti-migrant protestors force a museum in Poole to close | Hungary scraps plans for its new national gallery
Plus: China boycotts Gwangju Biennale | Science Museums drops BP sponsorship | Egyptian queen’s necklace stolen from Vienna’s MAK
Plus: Burnham softens stance on Parthenon Marbles | Trump administration threatens to demolish Kennedy Center | and more
Plus: Mary Heilmann (1940–2026); Alison Jacques gallery sued for breach of contract
Plus: Italian police have recovered three stolen artworks by Cézanne, Renoir and Matisse; and the San Diego Museum of Art has laid off 11 members of staff
Plus: Russian strke hits 18th-century Ukrainian church | Smithsonian faces 11 per cent funding cut | Australian Museum returns human remains to Rapa Nui, and more
Plus: the Trump administration wants signs warning of inaccuracies to be placed outside the Smithsonian’s American history museum; V&A staff vote to strike; and Betye Saar (1926–2026)
Morgan, the current director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York, will begin her new role in January 2027
Plus: the British Council is closing offices in nine countries; and the shortlist for the 2026 Stirling Prize has been announced
Plus: the Manhattan DA’s office has returned 59 antiquities to Italy, Iraq and Indonesia; and thieves have stolen €4m-worth of jewellery from the Lalique Museum in northeastern France
Plus: the Manhattan DA’s office seizes more antiquities from the Met; and the president of MUCEM in Marseille has been suspended after being accused of harassment
Plus: the Netherlands and Germany agree to return 2,000 artefacts to Ghana, and Misan Harriman resigns as chair of the Southbank Centre
Plus: the National Audit Office has warned that further delays to renovating the Houses of Parliament could make the building ‘uninhabitable’
Plus: International bodies condemn Israeli airstrikes on Tyre | three men sentenced for stealing Romanian gold from Dutch museum | heist at Turin auction house | Moderna Museet has new director
Plus: Dawn Airey to succeed Nicholas Serota as Arts Council England chair | artists threaten Venice Biennale with action over inclusion in visitor awards | ‘Persepolis’ author Marjane Satrapi dies at 56 | MOMA appoints photography head | Miami’s Bass Museum appoints new director
Plus: Arts Council England publishes its new strategic framework, and the husband of slain gallerist Brent Sikkema has been convicted of murder-for-hire
Plus: plans for President Trump’s triumphal arch have been approved; Lord Sainsbury has donated £91.2m to the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich; and the founding director of EMST in Athens has died
Plus: French parliament slams state of museum security | Nazi-looted painting found in home of Dutch SS commander’s family | Wellcome Collection hands over Jain manuscripts to UK Jain community | Valie Export (1940–2026) | Bruno Bischofberger (1940–2026)
Plus: Kader Attia to curate Kochi-Muziris Biennial | Building of US border wall damages archaeological site | United States returns 650 looted artefacts to India | Collector Doris Fisher dies at 94 | winners of Max Mara and Archibald Prizes announced
Plus: the Venice Biennale jury resigns en masse; and Janne Sirén is stepping down as the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum
The Danish gem expert alerted the British Museum to thefts from its collection and played a role in recovering scores of items. He was Apollo’s Personality of the Year in 2024
