The museum and libarary in northern Manhattan has a new director with a packed agenda—and some needed improvements on its horizon

Can another museum with a commitment to broaden Americans’ exposure to great art, including pre-contemporary works, take up the show?

School-ages visitors will have the run of the institution for a month before it opens to members, front-line and healthcare workers, with public reopening set for 18 July

How have curators been filling their time while their museums remain closed? Creatively, it turns out

The Flemish painter was at the top of the museum’s wish list and helps fill a large gender gap in the collection

The Legion of Honor, which relies heavily on exhibition revenue, hopes to present the show later this spring

After grand expansion, New York museum is already planning to swap out more than 700 works next spring

Museum unveils experimental Studio for live art and invites public participation in the Creativity Lab

The 1965 work, Phalli's Field, was a breakthrough in the artist's career

Special exhibitions mean big money—not only for the museums that hold them but for local businesses as well

The São Paulo collector James Kung Wei Li, whose father was a Chinese ambassador in South America, says the donation is his family’s repayment for American educational largesse

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Dalí’s lobster telephone to a bumper gift of indigenous art

Collectors Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner were drawn by the Saskatchewan museum’s dedication to indigenous and aboriginal art from around the globe

A low-key request from the San Antonio Museum of Art director resulted in a big gift from Lake Taihu near Wuxi

After conservation effort, Museum of Fine Arts decides its hunch was correct

Denver Art Museum's exhibition of the Old Master's prints looks at how he intentionally made “rarities” for his collectors

Institution recognises the “transformational” final gift of its late trustee Margaret McDermott with a special exhibition and new wall labels for more than 400 works she helped acquire

Museum has made more space for First Nations and Inuit artists and labels are now written in indigenous languages

After four years of research into the recently discovered camera, Maine's Bowdoin College Museum of Art reassesses the American artist’s creative practice

Worcester Art Museum argues for reattribution of altarpiece panels by Verrocchio’s workshop