Founded in 2007, the BUMfest International Percussion Festival remains the only forum in Slovenia fully dedicated to the art of percussion.

A diplomatic and political dispute has broken out in Slovenia over the return of an altarpiece by Italian Renaissance master Vittore Carpaccio.

In 2025, the border cities of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and Gorizia (Italy), jointly holding the title of European Capital of Culture for the first time, are paying tribute to Zoran Mušič (1909–2005) — a prominent Slovenian painter and printmaker.