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• Finland Pulls Back Venice Biennale Presence Over Return of Russian Pavilion

  Opposition to Russia's return to the Biennale won't go away.

• Catalan Museum Has Yet to Follow Through on Court Order to Return Contested Murals to Aragon Monastery

  The murals were damaged by a fire set in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

• Sotheby’s Returns to Profit as Sales Rise, Though Cash Pressures Persist

  Sales rose nearly 20 percent to $7.1 billion, with revenue from its core auction business climbing 26 percent to about $1 billion. 

• Turkey Notches Another Successful Restitution After Denver Art Museum Returns 1500-Year-Old Marble Head

  Turkey has notched a series of successes in its efforts to recover looted antiquities from collections worldwide in recent years.

• Jennifer Gilbert Consigns Blue-Chip Works to Sotheby’s to Fund Detroit Arts Space

  Proceeds will go toward Lumana, which Gilbert is building in Detroit’s Little Village neighborhood, with an opening planned for 2027.

• Archaeologists Discover 6,000-Year-Old ‘Megastructure’ in Romania

  The finding relates to the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture that thrived around 5,050-2,950 BCE.

• Walker Art Center Severs Ties with Restaurant for Laying Off Workers in Favor of QR Codes

  The museum said the move "does not align with our core values."

• Prominent German Art Foundation Accuses Top Culture Official of ‘Attempted Intimidation’

  Jurors from the Kunstfonds Foundation publicly decried the country’s top cultural policy official after he requested the names of its members.

• Lorna Simpson’s David Adjaye–Designed Brooklyn Home and Studio Remains On the Market—At a Much-Reduced Price

  The price tag has come down by nearly twenty-five percent within the past year.

• Arts Groups Speak Out Against US Trade Representative’s Potential New Tariffs

  The US Trade Representative’s investigation has to do with other countries benefiting from forced labor.