Article date: Monday, September 21, 2026
Marina Perez Simão: The Landscape Within the Image

In an age saturated by images, Marina Perez Simão’s paintings return to a slower and more attentive mode of seeing. Working across painting, watercolour, textiles and drawing, she develops a practice rooted in accumulation, intuition and the gradual emergence of images from experience.

Article date: Monday, September 21, 2026
MALBA Buenos Aires Expands Beneath Plaza Perú

Frida Escobedo Studio will lead the museum expansion, which will double its exhibition space; Eduardo Costantini is donating the Daros Latinamerica Collection, comprising 1,232 contemporary works, along with 17 masterpieces of Latin American modern art; and he is establishing the Malba Art Trust with an initial endowment of USD 50 million to secure the institution's continuity.

Article date: Monday, September 21, 2026
Hosts at the Louvre.  Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton

For two years, they inhabited the spaces – both physical and imaginary – of the Louvre. Each had a studio on the premises, where they created, conversed with museum personnel, and engaged with the public.

Article date: Monday, September 21, 2026
What Is a Giclée Print, and Does It Matter?

Walk through any online print shop and the word giclée sits on a listing priced at forty euros and on another priced at four thousand.

Article date: Monday, September 21, 2026
The Met New York Acquires Important Paintings by Chinese Ink Painter Chang Dai-chien

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced an acquisition of 38 paintings by preeminent Chinese ink painter Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian; 1899–1983) from the collection of the artist’s daughter, Sing Sheng Chang. 

Article date: Monday, September 21, 2026
UK Museums Urged to Save Rare Renaissance Masterpiece

Galleries and institutions across the UK have the chance to save Antico’s Seated Nymph for the nation, after the Government temporarily blocked it from leaving the country.

Article date: Monday, September 21, 2026
D.A. Bragg Announces Return of 147 Antiquities to Türkiye, Pakistan and Thailand

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the return of 147 antiquities totaling nearly $2.4 million to the people of Türkiye, Pakistan and Thailand.

Article date: Sunday, September 20, 2026
Why This Photographer Removed His Father From His Family Photos

There is a long history of doctoring photographs, routinely altered for political, ideological and personal reasons. Soviet-era retouching famously erased inconvenient figures from history, while countless family albums quietly omitted estranged relatives through scissors, cropping and careful selection.

Article date: Sunday, September 20, 2026
The Met Unveils Huge Facade Sculptures by Liu Wei

Chinese artist Liu Wei (born 1972, Beijing) has transformed the niches of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s iconic Fifth Avenue facade with a suite of new sculptures that confronts the constant state of shift in society. 

Article date: Sunday, September 20, 2026
Islamic Arts Biennale Announces Curators for 2027

The third edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale will be led by an international curatorial team whose expertise spans Islamic arts, contemporary art, architecture, and transcultural histories.

Article date: Friday, September 18, 2026
Family Sues Auschwitz Museum for Holocaust Watercolors

The daughters of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt have filed a lawsuit in California against the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, seeking the return of seven watercolors that their mother created while imprisoned in the Nazi camp.

Article date: Thursday, September 17, 2026
Norton Museum California Sued over Paintings Looted by Nazis

The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, is facing a lawsuit to recover a pair of Renaissance paintings stolen by the Nazis when the Jewish owners fled the Netherlands in 1940.