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On July 25, 2026, the Uffizi Galleries announced the opening of three new rooms on the second floor dedicated to Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolomeo, and their circle of painters active in Florence in the first two decades of the 16th century.
The National Gallery of Art announced the appointment of C. D. Dickerson III as dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
On July 1, 2026, the National Gallery, London, announced a major touring exhibition, 'Mary Magdalene: Woman and Myth', which will open at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool from February 6 to May 23, 2027, before traveling to the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield (June 17–September 12, 2027) and A.
Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul opened 'By Sooyoung Choi Studies', a solo exhibition of Alex Katz featuring small-scale studies painted from the 1990s to the present, running until August 1.
The Uffizi Galleries has completed a new permanent installation of Sandro Botticelli’s Venus and Primavera, now displayed facing each other in airtight cases within entirely redesigned rooms.
Thaddaeus Ropac is presenting a double-gallery exhibition conceived in two parts that explores the origins of Tarot in Renaissance Italy and its relevance as inspiration for artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Uffizi Galleries has returned Raphael's Madonna del Baldacchino to the Saturn Room of the Palatine Gallery at Pitti Palace in Florence, where the work has hung since the gallery opened to the public in 1828.
Artcurial will auction the third and final part of the Bourdel collection on April 14, 2026, in collaboration with experts Emmanuel Lhermitte and Philippine de Sailly.
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