Museums

Director outlines vision for new Palestinian Museum

Jack Persekian, the director of the new Palestinian Museum scheduled to open in Birzeit late next year, strikes a note of caution when discussing the political significance of the planned... MORE

Published online: 14 May 2013

 
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Celebrity friends help museum fundraise in style

Published online: 11 May 2013

The present and future of the Jewish Museum

The deputy director, Jens Hoffmann, on Jack Goldstein and beyond

Published online: 11 May 2013

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Published online: 09 May 2013

Chris Burden survey for New Museum

October show will include four new works including a sculpture of a 1974 Porsche transfixed by a 365lb meteorite

Published online: 09 May 2013

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Museum of Fine Arts reinstalls an 18th-century English drawing room

Published online: 08 May 2013

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Gallery:  While in New York

From the Civil War to Piero della Francesca: a selection of museum shows open during Frieze week. Photos by Casey Fatchett.

Gallery:  World's top exhibitions in 2012

We've ranked the top ten shows around the world in 2012 according to category (Impressionist and Modern art, photography, contemporary art, antiquities, etc). Here, you'll find the top shows for each genre. To see the full rankings and an analysis of the results, subscribers can log in to our digital edition, or new readers can subscribe now for immediate access.

A truth too far for the Met

The Metropolitan may be hosting a major show on punk, but the museum appears to have little time for the woman who helped to dress the...

Out of the ashes

After the disastrous fire at the Cuming Museum, in south London, in March, there had to be a hurried change to the programme. “Baptized by...

Brooklyn Museum gives guests dinner and a show

The Brooklyn Museum held it’s Artists Ball last night and a slew of New York’s artistic elite came out to party. The annual event, which...

Rijksmuseum celebrates reopening with flashmob

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum reopens at long last after a ten-year renovation. To celebrate, the museum staged a flashmob in a local shopping mall, dramatically recreating one of the museum's most famous paintings, Rembrandt's The Night Watch.