Museums & Heritage
Art Gallery of Ontario closes as more than 400 workers go on strike
The strike comes after a breakdown in negotiations between the workers’ union and museum administrators, and as the institution pursues a C$100m expansion
Leading Ukrainian art academy devastated by Russian air strike
The Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design reportedly sustained serious damage from falling fragments of a missile
New York museum's former chief financial officer claims in lawsuit she was fired for raising concerns about director’s expenses
Denise Lewis claims she was fired “without cause or warning” after she complained about the Museum of Arts and Design's director's alleged use of the institution’s funds for personal expenses during a vacation in Mexico
New Hong Kong: how the city aims to stay a global art hub
The SAR is riding out economic and political challenges with more buyers, bigger galleries and serious art
‘We remember who we are through culture’
M+ Museum Director Suhanya Raffel on Hong Kong’s first international cultural summit and why it matters
Hong Kong arts hub West Kowloon Cultural District opens summit with raft of global agreements
Digital challenges and the social and economic changes sparked by cultural transformation are among issues aired
Protestors at London Science Museum rally against ‘greenwashing’ new sponsor
The museum has received backlash for its decision to allow Adani Green Energy to sponsor a new gallery focused on climate change
‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt
A two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts
Jewish history museum in Philadelphia would become part of Smithsonian under proposed legislation
A new bill could create a commission to assess the feasibility of adding the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History to the Smithsonian family
Archaeologists in Brazil find petroglyphs alongside dinosaur tracks
No, this does not mean dinosaurs and humans lived there at the same time
New Wedgwood book traces author's intimate discovery of 18th-century Britain
The “experimental biography” offers fresh perspectives on the celebrated potter
The 2024 Whitney Biennial in five key themes
The Whitney Museum’s flagship contemporary art showcase turns on questions of identity, authenticity and mutability, which play out across more than a handful of interrelated topics
Warhol Museum director Patrick Moore stepping down
The president and chief executive of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, which operates the Warhol Museum, insists that the move is not a result of recent controversies
Denver Art Museum to return 11 artefacts connected to smuggler Douglas Latchford
The repatriations to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia come as the museum continues to distance itself from Latchford and his late collaborator Emma C. Bunker
Trio of disputed Rubens paintings must stay in the UK, parliamentary panel rules
Heirs of the German banker Franz Koenigs claim the works housed at the Courtauld Gallery should be restituted
Lost building discovered in Sicily’s ancient Valley of the Temples
Archaeologists working at a Unesco World Heritage site in Agrigento have revealed the remains of a previously unknown building
Developer’s $325m gift will help create new museum in Seattle
Richard Hedreen is donating a collection valued at $300m and $25m cash to create an art museum at Seattle University
Redevelopment of Modernist complex on Toronto waterfront alarms residents and preservationists
The provincial government passed legislation to push through a controversial, publicly funded development of Ontario Place
How the US’s Black cemeteries are being made visible once more
A cemetery hidden under a Florida air base is the latest African American burial site rediscovered following decades of erasure
How ancient cave art is rewriting Puerto Rican history
Recent study shows that humans inhabited and made art in the archipelago thousands of years earlier than previously thought
How much should museums pay artists for events such as the Whitney Biennial?
Compensating participants for group exhibitions is an important but taboo subject, as is the fee amount institutions provide
Philadelphia Museum of Art workers stage protest during all-staff meeting
Administrators and unionised workers at the institution remain at an impasse over the issue of longevity pay
Bellevue Arts Museum nears its emergency fundraising goal—but the fight is not over
The museum has already raised more than $200,000 (with the help of a generous reader of 'The Art Newspaper'), and its director is looking to local tech companies as future partners
Two climate activists charged for pouring red powder on National Archives display of the US Constitution
The Valentine’s Day protest was carried out by members of the environmental group Declare Emergency
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s recently closed downtown location to become Navy Seal Museum
The handover of the historical building, with an interior designed by Robert Irwin, marks the end of MCASD’s presence in downtown San Diego
16 new archaeological sites identified in Brazil’s Tocantins state
Newly discovered rock art, including human and animal footprints, is thought to have been created 2,000 years ago
Denver Art Museum workers vote to form a union, a first for an art museum in Colorado
Two thirds of eligible workers voted in favour of forming a union, animated by issues including adequate staffing, career advancement and wages
More works pulled from Barbican show over Gaza 'censorship' row
Artists Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit will remove their work from major textile survey, after two collectors withdraw their loans over centre's decision to not host talk on Palestine and the Holocaust
Antoine Predock, architect of distinctive museums in the US and Canada, has died, aged 87
His Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Tang Teaching Museum and Tacoma Art Museum were typical of an approach that melded modernism and post-modernism into a characteristically unpredictable aesthetic