The exhibition's curator, Stefanie Hessler, picks out some of this year's highlights

Tens of thousands of people joined marches for LGBTQ+ rights in the capitals of Greece, Romania and Bulgaria at the weekend – but right-wing traditionalists also held counter-rallies in Bucharest and Sofia.

Supporters of late President Josip Broz Tito marked May 25, the date that was celebrated as his official birthday and as Youth Day in socialist Yugoslavia, by making the trip to his mausoleum in Belgrade.

Turkish riot police entered the headquarters of the main opposition CHP in Ankara on Sunday, to enforce a controversial court ruling that removed party leader Ozgur Ozel and reinstated former chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

Playing tour guide over the weekend to various buildings renovated using billions in taxpayer money, Magyar said his government will keep the building previously used as the Prime Minister’s Office open to the public.

Gary Carrion-Murayari, the New Museum’s senior curator, first joined the institution in 2010. Since then, he has curated exhibitions dedicated to artists such as Phyllida Barlow, Haroon Mirza and Faith Ringgold. Later this year, he will present the most comprehensive survey to date of Arthur Jafa’s works. Carrion-Murayari previously worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he…

It is not only many of the fairgoers at Frieze New York who are fresh off the plane from the Venice Biennale. Quite a few of the works on the stands at the Shed are by artists who have just made a splash in Koyo Kouoh’s central exhibition 'In Minor Keys', at national pavilions or in collateral shows in Venice

The siege of Sarajevo, and artists’ role in it, lives on through Milomir Kovacevic's photographs. To coincide with a new exhibition of his pictures, Bosnian writer Semezdin Mehmedinovic sets the scene.

Photographer Petrut Calinescu went on a journey to explore how contemporary Romanians interpret the mythology to the ancient Dacian people - from re-enactment events to tourist attractions and right-wing ‘sovereigntist’ movements.

Joy across Bosnia and Turkey, as men’s teams win play-offs to qualify for the 2026 World Cup – and heartache in Kosovo, as narrow defeat dashes country’s hopes.

The fair’s Echoes section is dedicated to art created in the last five years

People gathered in the town of Kocani for an overnight vigil, marking one year since the nightclub inferno that claimed 63 mostly young lives.

President urges Romanians to remember ‘courage of those who turned suffering into dignity’ under Communist rule.

Protesters have gathered in cities all over the country to remember the 57 victims of the Tempi train crash in 2023.

Artists and dealers have really gone out on a limb this year—or several. Seemingly every other stand holds out a hand or sticks out a foot, and visitors appear to be getting a kick out of it.

Supporters of Ukraine gathered to show solidarity in Belgrade, Athens, Skopje and other cities in the Balkans as the fourth anniversary of Russia’s all-out military assault on its neighbour was marked.