Poland’s government has started making plans to get its most precious artworks out of the country in the event of a Russian invasion.

The remarkable admission was made by Polish culture minister Hanna Wróblewska who told the Financial Times foreign governments had been approached about "potentially hosting" paintings, sculptures and other treasures from more than 160 institutions.

The plan is being organized by a special department, run by an ex-military intelligence officer, and its work is informed by how Poland helped Ukraine get its cultural treasures to safety after the Russian invasion.

It comes as Poland continues efforts to recover work stolen by both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with thousands of artifacts still missing.

The auction value of work by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama sold across 826 lots between 2018 and May 2025 making her the top female artist by value according to Sotheby's Insight Report.

You wait ages for a major London gallery's fashionable fundraiser and two come along in the same week.

For many years the Serpentine Summer Party was the UK's top invite for the fashionably art-adjacent crowd and Tuesday night's event, hosted by Cate Blanchett and attended by the likes of former New York Mayor and gallery chairman Mike Bloomberg, was a suitably starry affair.

But last night it was the turn of Tate which raised over $1.37 million with a gala celebrating 25 years of Tate Modern attended by the great and the good from Bridget Riley and Steve McQueen to Cornelia Parker and Sarah Sze.

It also marked the launch of an endowment fund to secure Tate’s long-term future, with $58.9 million already raised with an aim to get to $205.5 million by 2030, and a shift from the organization that has accepted the days of lavish public funding are over.

In 2023, Tate ran a budget deficit of $12 million and the following year it had to dip into its reserves again.

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has been accused of "sacrilege" for buying and exhibiting a 200-year-old decorated condom.

The antique contraceptive, believed to be made from a sheep’s appendix, is thought to be a souvenir from a brothel and features an erotic etching of a nun and three clergymen.

An online petition calling on museum boss Taco Dibbits to remove it has been set up by a traditionalist catholic student group who said it was an "insult to God, the Catholic Church and the entire Dutch nation".

A spokesman for the museum told HENI News the condom was being shown in the "context" of a small presentation "about sexuality and prostitution in the 19th century" and would stay on show as planned until the end of November.

1 - Billionaire Howard Buffett has teamed up with Ukrainian Railways to create a rolling art gallery traveling the tracks of the country. The three carriages carry an exhibition by Howard, the son of investor Warren Buffett, of photographs taken after the Russian invasion.

2 - Jeffrey Gibson is the latest artist chosen to create a series of sculptures for the facade of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The artist, of native American Choctaw and Cherokee descent, will unveil his work in the building's niches on September 12.

3 - Rumours have reached HENI News of a new US exhibition dedicated to Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi. There has been no unofficial announcement but an auctioneer at Sotheby's in London this week revealed one of his works, which subsequently sold for $3.7 million, was promised to a show being co-organized by New York's Frick Collection and the Art Institute of Chicago.

1 - Yoko Ono and Nancy Spero are among artists whose work is going on show in a group exhibition, Summer Reads, at Galerie Lelong on New York's West 26th Street from tonight. The show, which runs to August 1, opens tonight with a public performance by Singapore-born, New York-based artist John Clang.

2 - Abstract artist Zhou Li has her first exhibition in South Korea opening tonight at the Seoul outpost of White Cube. She combines her background from a family of traditional Chinese artists with the influence of her time studying western art during almost 10 years in France.

3 - Italian painter Francesco Clemente has his third solo show with London's Lévy Gorvy Dayan opening tonight at its Dover Street space. The eight works fuse self-portraiture with imagery typically found in traditional Tibetan Buddhist representations of the bardo - a transitional state between death and rebirth.