20 highlights to watch out for in 2026, EXCEPT just 6 of them are original stories and the rest are part of existing franchises, remakes or sequels. What is happening to cinema?

The Natural History Museum is opening two galleries that have been closed for decades

A lovely heartwarming story for Christmas. Happy holidays everyone! 🎁🥂🎄https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o

For today’s @artukdotorg.bsky.social #onlineartexchange as the theme is Christmas, here’s Botticelli’s gorgeous ‘Mystic Nativity’ from the National Gallery

Hundreds of items taken in high-value museum raid www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Incredibly sad to hear that legendary architect Frank Gehry dies aged 96 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Great to see a female artist being so celebrated! Oh, wait... 🫤

Non-E.U. visitors must pay $37 to go to the Louve starting in January 2026, as the museum raises funds for major infrastructure and security updates. Crikey! 💰https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-ticket-price-hike-2721236

This week the #OnlineArtExchnage celebrates #MuseumShopSunday this weekend 🛍️ The @demorganfoundation.bsky.social has a lovely range of prints, tiles and coasters. You can also see more work by William and Evelyn De Morgan when you next visit Cannon Hall Museum #art #ceramic #tiles

Another Jonathan Jones masterpiece (I've actually never seen a ★★★★★ / ★☆☆☆☆ review before), where Sarah Lucas is "precise, witty and intelligent" and Maggi Hambling's work is a "slapdash mess". See what the fuss is about at Sadie Coles HQ. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Lovely Monet and Moomins at Ferens Art Gallery! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Woo hoo! Loved seeing this the last time we went to Oxford 💛

Gorgeous 'Golden age' London Underground posters go on show at London Transport Museum www.bbc.com/news/article...

A museum the size of 70 football pitches?! Count me in! 🏛️ www.bbc.com/news/article...

How Louvre gang carried out France's most shocking theft

Bearing in mind the Portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from the National Gallery way back in 1961 by putting a ladder up against a window, it's BAFFLING that nobody saw this van was *not exactly* legit

Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is ghosts! 👻 One of my favourites is Hokusai's The Mansion of the Plates from his One Hundred Ghost Tales series. The ghost is returning to haunt her murderer. This version is from the Art Institute of Chicago: www.artic.edu/artworks/474...

Smithsonian museums in Washington and New York close as US government shutdown drags on... The 21 museums, 14 research and education complexes, and one zoo overseen by the Smithsonian closed on Sunday, and until when, who knows?

8 Paintings that Vincent van Gogh copied: The Post-Impressionist master often painted reproductions of fellow artists' works in his characteristic style.

The National Gallery of Art closes indefinitely amid the U.S. government shutdown. The museum welcomed 3.8 million visitors in 2023, some 18 percent more than in 2022, when it was the most-visited museum in America.

British Museum’s ‘pink ball’ criticised by climate campaign group

How Museums Are Future-Proofing Their Finances Museums face shrinking funds and shifting values—can they reinvent support for the future?

Tate Britain plans to build new Mediterranean and East Asian-inspired green spaces and a "garden classroom" for children.

Shrinking audiences, a cash crisis and rivals on the rise: what’s gone wrong at Tate? The museum group is struggling with its identity – while the National Gallery is not only thriving but expanding into modern art

National Gallery gets £375m donations for new wing

I'm not quite sure how The British Museum is going to stop people forming queues, but fair play to them!

Ahead of the Bayeux Tapestry going on display at the British Museum next year, a modern inspiration by David Hockney will open at the Serpentine Gallery. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fre...

Bold moves by the @vangoghmuseum.bsky.social calling out the Dutch government for lack of funding potentially forcing a future closure of the museum

Very sad news from the Whitney Museum in NYC

Town's hosting of Turner Prize 2026 a 'major coup' for Middlesbrough

Controversy continues over Israeli embassy event at British Museum - how can museums be non-political when they have to follow government policy?

Sound advice from Welsh artist Gwen John (1876 –1939): "Rules to Keep the World away: Do not listen to people (more than is necessary); Do not look at people (ditto); Have as little intercourse with people as possible; When you come into contact with people, talk as little a possible."

“With this restoration, we rewrite a part of the history of art,” - Two figures in the Hall of Constantine in the Vatican Museums were actually painted by Raphael in major art historical discovery 🖌️

‘28 Years Later’ features Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the North’ alongside flesh-eating zombies, where its oxidized surface comes to take on a post-apocalyptic feel as it appears in an overgrown field, having been abandoned amid failed attempts to curtail the virus that has run rampant.

Massive congratulations to the legends at @beamishmuseum.bsky.social, winners of Art Fund’s #MuseumOfTheYear award! A moment for the outfits 💯

In her depictions of the human form, Jenny Saville pushes paint to its limits, says Sarah Howgate of the National Portrait Gallery in London

It's the Feast of San Giovanni today in Florence, and the British Institute is fundraising for the restoration of its gorgeous library where I've spent many happy hours. I've donated, please give if you can 🙏

A 17th-century painting at the Uffizi has been damaged after a visitor stumbled into it while posing for a photo... just days after a crystal-covered chair inspired by Van Gogh was seriously damaged when a tourist accidentally sat on it posing for a photo. Stop the selfies and look at the art!

The statement said “Today, I am not attacking art, nor am I destroying it. I am protecting it. Art, at its core, is depictions of life. It is by the living, for the living. There is no art on a dead planet,” You threw paint on a Picasso, that is attacking art pure and simple.

If only I had $12 million! I love this painting.

On Father’s Day, us art historians should remember the painter, architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574). artuk.org/discover/sto...

I LOVE it when museums fight back 💪 www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Lovely news for Tate Liverpool! www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/dcms-aw...

One of JMW Turner’s earliest paintings rediscovered after 150 years! Depiction of a stormy Bristol landscape to be sold after artist’s signature was found when it was cleaned www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Banksy posts image of new lighthouse artwork believed to be in Marseille www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Exhibitions at the Tate Modern and Estorick Collection prove London is booming with quiet art www.ft.com/content/dba7...

Very sad news for the art world - Salgado had an amazing exhibition at the Natural History Museum a few years ago and the images were astonishing www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Tate Britain to replace front lawns with sculpture-filled wildlife garden - planted spaces and fully accessible pathways will be complemented with sculptures by British artists from Tate’s collection integrated throughout the landscape. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tat...

Michelangelo Turns 550—And Is Still Stealing the Spotlight news.artnet.com/art-world/mi...