Multidisciplinary artist Christine Sun Kim, assemblage artist Rodney McMillian, and painter Vincent Valdez have been named 2026 MacArthur Fellows.

Kehinde Wiley has written has written to President Trump asking to buy back a painting that the administration removed from a U.S embassy.

Frieze has revealed the program for the first edition of Frieze Abu Dhabi, scheduled for 19 to 22 November this year.

The organizers of Art Basel Miami Beach have announced that the 2026 iteration will include 272 exhibitors from over forty countries and territories

The Sámi artist network Dáiddadállu has been announced as the recipient of this year’s Munch Award celebrating artistic freedom

JMW Turner’s Rome, from Mount Aventine, 1835, will be auctioned at Sotheby’s Old Master Evening Sale in London on December 9

Pace Gallery is seeking a tenant with which to share its New York City headquarters, located at 540 West Twenty-Fifth Street in Chelsea.

Unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York say they will strike on October 5 if they do not receive a fair contract offer.

The appointment follows the previous leadership of Eugene Tan.

Ann Temkin, whose tenure as chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art proved transformative, is stepping down.

The buyer of a formerly misattributed Rembrandt that fetched $9 million at Sotheby’s last year is Thomas Kaplan, owner of the Leiden Collection.

For the fourth year running, Swiss MCH Group, the parent company of the Art Basel fair, recorded an increase in profit in the first half of 2026.

The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced Eva Respini and Sirish Rao as its co-CEOs.

Brooklyn art publication Hyperallergic, which has long touted free access as a crucial aspect of its mission, will paywall some articles.

The Milwaukee Art Museum on September 9 transferred two stoneware vessels made by enslaved potter David Drake to his relatives.

An installation by Polish artist Alicja Kwade occupying a space outside Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong was found to damaged on September 20

Tulsa, Oklahoma's Gilcrease Museum is scheduled to reopen in March 2027 in a new, purpose-built home, following a multiyear closure.

Imelda Cajipe Endaya has been named to the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Visual Arts, the first woman to receive the honor.

The Thai Ministry of Culture has named Thai collective jiradej-pornpilai meemalai: BAAN NOORG artistic director of the Fifth Thailand Biennale.

A chalk drawing spotted in a private Italian collection has since been attributed to the French proto-modernist Edouard Manet.

A former senior employee at the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia is said to have stolen $8 million from the institution over six years.

The Manhattan District Attorney announced 36 trafficked or looted antiquities including mosaics and statuettes would be returned to Syria

The Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) announced the recipients of its 2026 Arts Fund, which distributes $500,000 to arts and cultural organizations

The protests were against a proposed 30% cut to the cultural budget in 2027 and a suspension of national arts awards.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, has named Jonathan Abbott as its new director and CEO.

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has purchased a newly discovered painting by Diego Velázquez, the first work by the artist to enter its collection.

The magazine's new office, bookstore, and gallery space were designed by architect Levenbetts in the historic Evelyn Building on 78th and Columbus

Blue-chip auction house Christie’s on September 23 revealed the launch of a new division focused on sales of pop culture memorabilia.

The Joan Mitchell Foundation has published a new report detailing challenges and inequities in legacy planning for modern and contemporary artists.

The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, has revealed a trio of buildings designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, who designed the new LACMA.

To the upset of many, a controversial 9/11 research organization rented El Museo del Barrio for a conference

Steven Shearer, known for his portraits blending youth subculture and art-historical references, has won the 2026 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts.

Two German artists were arrested on September 19 after mounting two paintings to a wall of the Louvre near Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) announced that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo will lead the project to expand the museum.

Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota and Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, have been appointed to France's Ordre d’Arts et Lettres.

Jeffreen M.H. Ash will depart from her role as executive director of the Chicago cultural nonprofit Threewalls on September 30.

The Art Institute of Chicago has returned a Jean Metzinger painting to the family of Jewish art collector Emanuel Lewenstein

The UK Government has banned the export of Antico's Seated Nymph statue, hoping to give British museums time to raise funds and purchase the work

Mérida, home to a vibrant contemporary art scene, will host the first Bienale de Yucatán.

Photographer Tyler Mitchell has been named the winner of the 2026 Don Tyson Prize by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.

Yves Goldstein will leave Brussels’s new Kanal-Centre Pompidou two days after its opening on November 28

Maria Arusoo has been announced as the director of the Tallinn Art Hall, one of Estonia’s oldest and best-known contemporary art institutions.

A cloudburst swept through Florence on September 17, dropping nearly two inches of rain in an hour and sending rain cascading into the Uffizi.

Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza is donating 180 contemporary artworks from her collection to be on display in Madrid. Another 180 will be on loan.

The Moderna Museet in Stockholm has named closely watched French curator Cédric Fauq as its new curator of contemporary international art.

Two new lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Jewish heirs, seek the return of artwork taken by the Nazis during World War II

whose trippy Day-Glo paintings came to symbolize the Flower Power era of the 1960s, died on September 18 in New York at the age of eighty-eight.

Pace Prints today announced that it has purchased publisher Brand X Editions, becoming one of the largest printmakers in the United States.

The institution, led by Sara Raza opened on September 6.

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation has named the curators who will lead the third edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, slated to open on November 1, 2027