A number of artefacts from India dating back to the British colonial era are among more than 600 “high value” objects stolen in a burglary at a Bristol museum storage facility, Avon and Somerset Police said on Thursday. The items were taken from a building housing the Bristol Museum’s British Empire and Commonwealth collection in

Chanel has inaugurated Espace Gabrielle Chanel, a new library dedicated to contemporary art, at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, marking the first public library of its kind in mainland China. The space is presented as a tribute to China’s vibrant contemporary art culture and as a long‑term investment in cultural infrastructure and research.​

Two armed thieves carried out a daytime robbery at São Paulo’s Mário de Andrade Library on Sunday, stealing 13 works of art, including eight works on paper by French modernist Henri Matisse and five pieces by Brazilian painter Candido Portinari. The stolen artworks were on display in a temporary exhibition when the assailants entered the

More than 500 Serbian artists, curators, and cultural workers have signed a petition objecting to the selection of artist Predrag Đaković as Serbia’s representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The decision, announced by the Ministry of Culture earlier this month, has sparked widespread criticism within the country’s art community. Curator Lav Mrenović, one of the