American Museums
Museum championing ‘art of the people’ reopens in San Diego after $55m renovation
The Mingei International Museum, which has been closed for three years, holds a vast collection of folk art and design
San Diego will get an Institute of Contemporary Art in September
An exhibition devoted to the Mexican conceptual artist Gabriel Rico will inaugurate the institute
Oregon museum receives $6m grant to display its vast but largely unseen art collection
The High Desert Museum, which has previously had an emphasis on natural history, holds important works by artists like Rick Bartow and Edward Curtis
With unemployment at an historic high, America's art workers band together
Labour organising is building across the culture sphere. Could an industry-wide arts union be next?
Shaker artefacts will get a new home in upstate New York
The $15m building project, led by Selldorf Architects, envisions a museum drawing 30,000 visitors a year
Staff cuts: are museums protecting their workers?
Plus, curator Emily Butler on Rhea Storr's video art. Produced in association with Christie's
Reform or reset? How cultural institutions are facing a reckoning over racism
US and UK museums have been accused of tokenism, hypocrisy and fake solidarity for rushing to declare support for Black Lives Matter. Where do they go from here?
America's virtual museums take on new significance as Covid-19 lockdown deepens
Art Institute of Chicago and Smithsonian are among institutions that have embraced technology, and more are set to ramp up their efforts
The Leslie-Lohman Museum announces its first director of curatorial programmes
Stamatina Gregory will take the new position as the LGBTQ art museum undergoes a series of changes
Interview | Lonnie Bunch on founding the Smithsonian's African American history museum and drawing inspiration from Lincoln
As his new book is released, the new secretary of the Smithsonian Institution talks of extending its reach beyond Washington
Dissecting a gallery in a remade MoMA
Among the most striking examples of the museum's more global and inclusive approach is a gallery with the theme War Within, War Without
MoMA special: our verdict on the museum opening of the year
We speak to two of the museum's curators leading the expansion and our New York team sit down to discuss the highs and lows of the new space. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Peabody Essex Museum's $125m expansion includes new displays shaped by its neuroscience research
Institution in Salem, Massachusetts, opens new wing to display maritime and Asian art collection
Middle East think-tank opens art gallery in Washington, DC
New space for Modern and contemporary art from the Arab world will put on five exhibitions a year
Oakland’s ‘museum of the people’ launches $85m capital campaign
Renovation aims to reflect the demographic diversity of the birthplace of the Black Panthers
New York leans to the left under mayor’s plans for art
De Blasio focuses on diversity, social value and access for all
All of Warhol’s films and videos to be digitised
The project will make hundreds of the artists films more accessible
Warhol museum expansion gains Lower East Side traction
The institution has formed a partnership with Delancey Street Associates
Married gay couples to get art tax breaks
Museums could benefit, as well as sponsors
Fight for Detroit’s art begins
Director of art museum in bankrupt city steels himself for long battle as price tags are put on greatest works
Comment: The immorality of using Detroit’s art to bail out bankrupt city
Even if it proves legal to sell paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, there is a moral case to consider
Possible US sanctions on Iran could create back door for commandeering of museum antiquities as damages
Persepolis tablets on loan to Chicago's Oriental Institute since the 1930s compromised in lawsuit brought by victims of Jerusalem suicide bombing
An analysis of the mission statements of leading US art museums exposes collective search for purpose
The words chosen by directors reflect a desire to quash ambiguity and carve out their space in the contemporary art landscape
US museums receive surfeit of patronage for Islamic art collections
But Arab donors are in scarce supply, while Turks, Iranians and others spend freely
Artists boycott Rose Art Museum shows
Ex-director says Brandeis University “doesn’t understand” outrage over plan to sell-off $350m collection
Eli Broad addresses the American Association of Museums: “Get art out of the basement"
The collector lectures museum professionals at their annual conference in Los Angeles
Representation and diversity: America is changing, but are its art museums?
Most major institutions are still run by white people, are supported by them, and tailor their exhibitions to suit them
Whitney’s billionaire chairman of trustees steps down
Leonard Lauder’s decision to leave the institution coincides with launch of $680m fundraising campaign
Comment: The problem with privately-funded museums
There is a danger that the conservatism of the museum sector will be challenged by a new generation of board members who feel that “rules are for other people”
Restitution pledge by US museums remains unfulfilled six years on
Results of survey lay bare how the US fell short
As US museums face mounting legal issues, an annual conference explores what to do with whistleblowers and dodgy donors
Recent corporate scandals have raised concerns that American charities should be examining their ethics policies
Louvre director defends partnership with High Museum of Atlanta
A statement from Henri Loyette, director of the Louvre
It is time major US museums stopped the illicit collecting of antiquities: the trials and the consequences
Following trials of Giacomo Medici, Robert Hecht, and Marion True
Comment: New US museums pit donors against the public
An increasing number of museums are being built as speculative investments designed to attract incompatible currencies—collections and crowds
Rubell family transform their private collection into major museum complex
In the space of just a year, a former US Drug Enforcement Warehouse has been expanded to 40,000 square feet and now includes 18 new galleries, a conservation laboratory, a library and a sculpture garden
A new international role for the Whitney under Adam Weinberg
The museum's new director has assembled his curatorial team and is preparing to steer it on a radical new course
Smithsonian reshuffle elevates status of art museums to that of scientific and historical study
The five art museums run by the federal body are now overseen by just one senior manager, Hirshhorn director Ned Rifkin
St Peter and the Vatican: the legacy of the popes, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
What’s On: US museums and galleries
Worcester Art Museum sued for Anti-Muslim discrimination
“The museum is committed to fostering a diverse workplace and is an equal opportunity employer,” it said.
The once and future MoMA: The museum's double role plays out across two exhibitions
Across two venues MoMA presents one exhibition examining the past, while a collaboration on another focuses on the future of art
Much piety and hot air at Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets
No binding agreements were reached and little effect on restitution is expected
First Interview with MoMA's new director Glenn Lowry on modernising the Modern
Gertrude Stein asks: museum or modern? MoMA’s director replies