'A place for us to show our living journey as artists': Gilbert & George opening London art centre
The artists reveal they will soon have a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London at the opening of their permanent exhibition space
Tel Aviv Museum of Art partially closes in support of Israel's 'day of paralysis'
Israel's oldest art museum joins nationwide protests against government's contentious new laws, in what arts philanthropist Batia Ofer describes as a "fight for our democracy"
Acquisitions round up: the Met acquires 16th-century portrait of pope's banker
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London's Royal Academy of Arts offers young visitors half price entry
Museum's new 25 & Under ticketing scheme for temporary exhibitions is being subsidised by the art collectors Batia and Idan Ofer
A museum in a cargo lorry: Tate takes art on the road in Liverpool
The new Art Explora 'Mobile Museum' is on a ten-week tour in the north of England to make art more accessible
British Museum's chairman suggests 'hybrid' deal with Greece over Parthenon Marbles
"I think there is a way forward where the sculptures could be seen both in London and in Athens, and that will be a win-win for Greece and for us,” George Osborne says
Museum community must agree on binding protocols to counter 'increasing political interference' across Europe, leading directors say
A slew of cases of museum directors forced from their positions is a "spectacular moment of crisis,” the Museum Watch Committee chair said at annual museums conference
UK culture ministry shake up: Lucy Frazer named secretary for 'refocussed' department
Prime minister Rishi Sunak has overhauled the country's Department for Culture, Media and Sport Digital, dropping "digital" from its mandate
Acquisitions round up: Art Institute of Chicago acquires Magdalena Abakanowicz's horsehair wall hangings
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‘Extreme right’ attacks contributed to resignation of Madrid’s Reina Sofia museum director, open letter says
The museum community has leapt to the defence of the former leader of Spain's national museum of 20th-century art after a series of prominent articles accused him of internal rule-breaking and "political propaganda"
Derelict ice factory in the desert transformed into UAE's newest contemporary art venue
Opening in time for the Sharjah Biennial, the Kalba Ice Factory building boasts 20,000 sq. m exhibition space
'Like being on display in a zoo': judges rule in favour of luxury flat owners living next to Tate Modern in battle over privacy
Landmark Supreme Court ruling finds Tate Modern's viewing platform as private nuisance to luxury flat owners it overlooks
World's only Vagina Museum closes its doors in East London and seeks new home
It is the second time in a year that the space, dedicated to the female reproductive system, has had to move
British Museum staff to strike as cultural workers across UK take industrial action—including during school holiday
Workers at the Wallace Collection, Historic England, National Museums Scotland and the National Museum of Liverpool will also be striking over pay and labour conditions
‘Picasso is relevant to any creative person working today’: British designer Paul Smith to provide art direction for exhibition on the Spanish artist
The show at the Musée National Picasso in Paris will include a jazz soundtrack, Modern masterpieces hung on colourfully designed walls, and Picasso’s Vogue magazine drawings
More than 500 museums launch art project to confront mass biodiversity loss across UK
"The Wild Escape" responds to new research from London's Natural History Museum, which finds the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world
UK's oldest toy museum announces closure, sending thousands of antique toys into storage
Pollock's Toy Museum, a historic fixture of London's Fitzrovia district, will remain closed unless "major capital funding" is found
British Museum's hopes of a 'loan arrangement' for the return of the Parthenon Marbles imperilled ahead of Greek elections
The Greek prime minister has pledged to repatriate the 2,500-year-old sculptures if re-elected
Acquisitions round-up: two London museums jointly purchase a masterpiece of the Aesthetic movement
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The big museum openings to look out for in 2023
From the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery in London to the major expansion of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in the US, here is our pick of new museum projects in the coming year
Museums and heritage in 2022: industrial unrest, climate protests and damage to historic artefacts in Ukraine
New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany
The story of Maryan, the Polish Holocaust survivor who expressed his trauma through his art, is told in new show
Survey at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is one of the first outside the US to examine the artist’s life and work
Secret talks between British Museum and Greece to return Parthenon Marbles in 'advanced stages'
If a deal is finalised, the contested sculptures are expected to be returned to Greece in early 2023, and will be displayed at the Acropolis Museum in Athens
Controversial remodel of National Gallery London's Sainsbury Wing gets green light from city council
Plans to make the Grade I-listed museum wing more accessible and sustainable, described by some leading architects as "ill-judged" and "insensitive", approved by Westminster planning committee
London's Wellcome Collection accused of cultural vandalism after closing 'racist, sexist and ableist' display of artefacts
The institution asks “What’s a museum for?” as it shuts display devoted to objects amassed by its founder
London's National Portrait Gallery receives £10m donation from Leonard Blavatnik
First floor of London museum to be renamed the "Blavatnik Wing" and will display 100 years of portraiture across nine galleries
'Systematically underpaid': arts courses across UK grind to a halt amid nation's biggest university strike in history
Lecturers across the country are protesting university workers’ pay, pensions and working conditions
Former Nottingham Castle chief executive calls for independent investigation as UK heritage site closes to public
Nottinghamshire site central to the Robin Hood legend received £33m in public funding less than a year ago, but is now facing liquidation after being rocked by a series of internal misconduct allegations
London gallery turns Premier League football match into an art installation
Mark Titchner's work was displayed at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium and broadcast to millions of fans
'Don't expect us to be passive' in the face of restitution: British Museum chair defies return of looted artefacts
In speech at the annual trustees dinner George Osborne said that "dismantling" the collection "must not become the careless act of a single generation”