NewsMuseums & Heritage
High Museum in Atlanta will open for child summer art camps in June
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
FeatureMuseums & Heritage
The show must go on: what American curators are up to in isolation
How have curators been filling their time while their museums remain closed? Creatively, it turns out
NewsAcquisitions
Met adds Clara Peeters still-life to its petit bouquet of works by early women painters
The Flemish painter was at the top of the museum’s wish list and helps fill a large gender gap in the collection
NewsExhibitions
Major Pompeii show in San Francisco delayed as key loans remain in Italy during lockdown
The Legion of Honor, which relies heavily on exhibition revenue, hopes to present the show later this spring
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
MoMA gears up for its next big collection rehang
After grand expansion, New York museum is already planning to swap out more than 700 works next spring
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
Off the wall: MoMA opens spaces for visitors to get up close and personal with Modernism
Museum unveils experimental Studio for live art and invites public participation in the Creativity Lab
NewsMuseums & Heritage
The Hirshhorn acquires a reconfiguration of Yayoi Kusama's first Infinity Mirror Room
The 1965 work, Phalli's Field, was a breakthrough in the artist's career
FeatureVisitor Figures 2018
How global art can provide a kick-start to local economies
Special exhibitions mean big money—not only for the museums that hold them but for local businesses as well
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Met receives donation of ten ‘exceptional’ colonial Latin American works out of the blue
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
NewsMuseums & Heritage
MacKenzie Art Gallery given 1,000 works by contemporary indigenous artists from Canada and the US
Collectors Thomas Druyan and Alice Ladner were drawn by the Saskatchewan museum’s dedication to indigenous and aboriginal art from around the globe
NewsAcquisitions
Why a six-ton scholar’s rock is making its way from China to Texas
A low-key request from the San Antonio Museum of Art director resulted in a big gift from Lake Taihu near Wuxi
NewsConservation & Preservation
Houston museum reattributes painting to Velázquez
After conservation effort, Museum of Fine Arts decides its hunch was correct
PreviewExhibitions
Rembrandt the master printmaker—and shrewd market manipulator
Denver Art Museum's exhibition of the Old Master's prints looks at how he “intentionally made rarities” for his collectors
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Dallas Museum of Art says thank you to a life-long patron
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
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Indigenous art comes first in Art Gallery of Ontario's new Canadian galleries
Museum has made more space for First Nations and Inuit artists and labels are now written in indigenous languages
PreviewExhibitions
How Winslow Homer's long-lost camera changed the way scholars see his paintings
After four years of research into the recently discovered camera, Maine's Bowdoin College Museum of Art reassesses the American artist’s creative practice
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
A new Leonardo? Scholarly show claims to reveal master’s hand
Worcester Art Museum argues for reattribution of altarpiece panels by Verrocchio’s workshop
ArchiveInterviews
The most important collectors you’ve never heard of: The Van Otterloos
Next year their collection of Dutch and Flemish 17th-century paintings goes on display for the first time in Europe and the US. The couple gave us their first ever interview
ArchiveCommissions
Fontainebleau Hotel commissions major artists to become a true 'art hotel'
The Fontainebleau will show works by Turrell, Ai Weiwei and Rauschenberg
ArchiveGagosian Gallery
Will ex-Gagosian staffers poach his artists?
New Chelsea gallery to show Hirst, Salle and Brown
CommentMuseums & Heritage
The cancelling of the Genoese art loan show Superb Baroque is a sad day for the National Gallery in Washington, DC
Can another museum with a commitment to broaden Americans’ exposure to great art, including pre-contemporary works, take up the show?
Judith H. Dobrzynski