The Philadelphia Museum of Art's upcoming show had a rocky start - beginning with its curator being told off by his mother.

Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments, which opens on April 25, features work by artists including Keith Haring, Rashid Johnson, Andy Warhol and Carrie Mae Weems in a bid to discover why millions of people from around the world visit the Rocky statue by the museum's steps.

It is a question guest curator Paul M. Farber first examined in a podcast inspired by his mother's reaction to his plans for a college course he was teaching about the city's history at the University of Pennsylvania.

He told the New York Times: "My mother asked, ‘Are you going to talk about the Rocky statue?’ And I scoffed and she called me out,” Farber said. “And she said, ‘I want you to think about the fact that every day of the year, no matter the weather, no matter the time of day, there is a line of people waiting to be with the Rocky statue.’"

The show also marks the 50th anniversary of the film which was largely filmed in the city and starred Sylvester Stallone in the title role of the journeyman boxer given a shot at the big time.

The number of days the European Commission gave the organizers of the Venice Biennale to respond to its formal threat to withdraw $2.35 million in funding over its plan to allow Russia to participate this year.

Thai video artist Chantana Tiprachart has won $15,000 and the "room to breathe" in a grant from the Han Nefkens Foundation.

She was awarded the foundation's Southeast Asian Video Art Production Grant 2026 after the jury praised the "quiet attention" of her filmmaking.

Tiprachart will use the money to make new work which will be shown at locations including Japan's Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, China, and Rotterdam's International Film Festival in the Netherlands.

She said Southeast Asian artists often operated in a climate "stifled by rigid beliefs, prejudice, and limitations on expression", adding: "Finding a community that genuinely understands the artist’s journey is like finding room to breathe. This grant isn't just funding; it is the vital oxygen that proves creative liberty is possible when there is a foundation of true understanding."

Victorian painter Richard Dadd's influence on everyone from Cornelia Parker to the rock band Queen will be examined in a major new show at London's Royal Academy of Arts.

The show, which will feature around 100 of his works, opens on July 25 and is the first major retrospective of the troubled artist in more than half-a-century.

Dadd, who died in 1886, was a former Royal Academy student who spent the last 42 years of his life in hospital after killing his father while under the delusion he was actually the son of an Egyptian God.

He continued to paint while in hospital, including a stay at London's Bethlem Royal Hospital better known as Bedlam, and many of the works on show will come from his time as a patient.

Dadd was renowned for the intricacy of his work which often featured images of fairies and mythical creatures from the work of Shakespeare which was referenced by Freddie Mercury and friends in their song The Fairy-Feller’s Master-Stroke inspired by the singer seeing Dadd's painting of the same name at London's Tate Gallery.

1 - Barcelona's National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) has been given 56 weeks to return a set of murals to the Monastery of Sijena in neighboring Aragon 91 years after they were taken. The murals, removed during the country's civil war after a fire at the monastery in 1936, have been the subject of a legal battle for more than a decade.

2 - The UK show that helped launch the careers of artists including David Hockney, Tacita Dean and Paula Rego is back next month. The New Contemporaries show was founded in 1949 and its 2026 edition opens at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in northeast England on May 8 and runs to August 16.

3 - Collector Catherine Petitgas is launching the first Yucatan biennial in the Mexican city of Merida later this year. The event, organized with artistic director Abraham Cruzvillegas, will run from November 26 to February 28.

4 - The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) is due to open in the city on May 1. It is part of a wider non-profit institution that also offers subsidized housing to artists on the site.

5 - Three men accused of stealing a Romanian gold helmet from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands go on trial today. The helmet and two stolen armbands were recovered earlier this month following a deal with the defendants.