Design envisages over 70,000 sq. ft of space for classrooms, collection study areas and the fledgling museum, as well as underground library storage

Chronicling the work of female photographers from the 1920s to the 1950s, a show organised with the National Gallery of Art breaks significant ground

President and chief executive has led the institution for a decade, bolstering its reputation

Min Jung Kim, who now leads the New Britain Museum of American Art, will succeed 22-year veteran Brent Benjamin

Stephen G. Stein’s donation includes notable examples of images by Gustave Le Gray, William Eggleston, Brassaï, Robert Frank, Sally Mann and others

Museum invites three artists to serve as co-authors of collection displays and enlists 10 local experts to help generate inclusive stories

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Charges are pending against two New York-based antiquities dealers linked to the objects

The tile, whose imagery has been associated with white supremacy, was created in a workshop sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Art

Arlington House, where wealthy white privilege contrasts with bondage and suffering, has undergone a $12.3m rehabilitation and reinterpretation

Critics says that the subject matter is out of touch with racial justice issues, and artist now regrets creating it

The crafts chain, which bought them for its Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, says the seller lied about the biblical objects’ provenance

Institution says the work is being lent by the foundation that swooped in to rescue it when it was deaccessioned by the Newark Museum of Art

The venue, the French institution’s first in North America, will exhibit borrowed works and serve as an “art laboratory”

From Louise Bourgeois at The Jewish Museum to Sam Durant’s High Line Plinth commission

Places range from Alabama farms where civil rights marchers once camped to a Utah site where Chinese railroad labourers stayed

Museum, under pressure to embrace equity while facing revenue losses, says the money will shore up its endowment and operating budget

From curators to porters, more than 180 workers are involved in the effort as labour campaigns multiply among US art institutions

Poll conducted in April yields optimism that financial fallout from the pandemic will be less severe than feared

Dating from the ninth and tenth centuries, the objects are thought to have been looted from sacred sites in the late 1960s

Venues in Washington, DC and New York will require masks and many will have reduced hours

Former 1921 dime store, which peacefully desegregated its lunch counter in 1960, will house an Alamo museum

The labour chapter would represent 130 curators, conservators, front-desk staff and others

We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences

Auction at Sotheby’s yields promising yet mixed results for museum’s drive to fund collections care

The $66m project includes expanding galleries, creating research and education spaces and restoring its landmark 1908 building

As the museum commits itself to diversity, E. Carmen Ramos, a curator of Latino art, will be “the principal architect of the visitor experience”

Museum says the move is intended to promote “truthful narratives” and promote social change

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In an open letter, they denounce the deaccessioning move as a “senseless monetisation” of art from the permanent collection