American Museums

Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco to change locations only two years after opening

The city's "start-up museum" will leave its original site in the Dogpatch neighbourhood and reopen in a new downtown development in October

The Met has largely bounced back since the pandemic

While the New York institution has not reached pre-Covid numbers with international visitors, the figures paint a promising picture

In open letter, Metropolitan Museum employees call on the institution to ‘stand in defence of Palestinians’

More than 150 people have signed onto the letter, which was delivered to museum director and chief executive Max Hollein this week

Bellevue Arts Museum nears its emergency fundraising goal—but the fight is not over

The museum has already raised more than $200,000 (with the help of a generous reader of 'The Art Newspaper'), and its director is looking to local tech companies as future partners

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s recently closed downtown location to become Navy Seal Museum

The handover of the historical building, with an interior designed by Robert Irwin, marks the end of MCASD’s presence in downtown San Diego

Washington state's Bellevue Arts Museum faces 'dire' financial straits

The institution may be forced to close its doors if it doesn't raise the requisite funds, says its permanent director less than a week into her new role

University of New Hampshire permanently closes its art museum amid budget cuts

In an effort to shave $14m off its projected 2024 budget, UNH will close its campus art museum

US university museum returns Nazi-looted painting to rightful heirs

The Ackland Art Museum restituted a painting taken from a prominent Jewish collector via Nazi coercion

Is the US museum sector in crisis?

Plus, a new antisemitism scandal at Documenta and a Kim Lim sculpure on show at the Hepworth Wakefield

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Frick Collection's fundraising for renovation and capital campaign reaches $242m

With 83% of its renovation fund raised, the museum is on target to reopen in its historic home in late 2024

The Met and Yemeni government reach agreement for long-term display and care of two ancient sculptures

The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on

After provenance concerns were raised over Greek antiquities in Florida museum's exhibition, its curator was fired

The dismissal of Michael Bennett, a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, came after colleagues at another institution raised flags about provenance gaps

Manhattan District Attorney's Office seizes $5m bronze bust in Turkish repatriation sting

The sculpture, which depicts a daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is the second out-of-state item to be seized by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit

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As floods level Vermont, its arts community takes action

Extreme weather conditions continue to roil the East Coast, putting arts communities at risk

San Diego's museums of art and photography will merge

The Balboa Park cultural mainstays will form one institution, effective 1 July

Amid mounting scrutiny of its collecting practices, Metropolitan Museum will form provenance research squad

The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

A pop-up museum in New York pushes back against 'excessive policing'

The Museum of Broken Windows takes on themes of state-sponsored racial injustice in light of New York mayor Eric Adams's planned municipal budget allocating $11bn to the NYPD

50 US museums receive grants and art from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

As the late artist's 100th birthday nears, his foundation is undertaking the largest philanthropic project in its history

Workers at New York's Hispanic Society will go on strike just as museum completes six-year renovation

Unionised workers at the museum cite stagnant wages, inadequate contracts and unsustainable workloads as just some of the problems at the world-class collection

Genesis of Phil Collins’s collection of Alamo artefacts questioned ahead of museum opening

A new public exhibition hall is mired in controversy over the provenance of the musician’s collection of relics related to the Alamo in Texas

Long-awaited International African American Museum delays January opening

The museum says humidity and temperature control issues must be addressed before it can open to the public

Metropolitan Museum receives $10m donation for ongoing performance art initiative

The philanthropist Adrienne Arsht is a longtime supporter of the museum and performing arts programmes nationwide

Former president Bill Clinton previews $155m expansion of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

The renovation spearheaded by Studio Gang, details of which were unveiled during a luncheon in New York, will open in the spring of 2023

Brooklyn Museum completes ten-year renovation of Asian and Islamic art galleries

The approximately $9m project included modernising 20,000 sq. ft of galleries and bringing key objects out of storage for public display for the first time

Marvin Gaye-inspired exhibition to inaugurate Rubell Museum in Washington, DC

The exhibition will feature nearly 200 works from Don and Mera Rubell's collection

An overdue ode to the influence of Black cinema opens in Los Angeles

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures exhibition exlores the contributions of celebrated and overlooked minds in Hollywood alongside works by contemporary artists

Historic Baltimore museum reopens after $5.5m renovation

The Peale Museum, considered the first “purpose-built” museum in North America, reopens with a contemporary and local focus

An historic appointment: Lynette L. Allston is the first Indigenous person to serve as board president of a major US museum

Allston had previously advised the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in devising its land acknowledgement agreement

Frick Collection honoured for employing people with disabilities

The institution is the first New York museum to be honoured by the city’s mayor for its employment efforts

Raphael tapestries exhibition illustrates the ‘dawn of image reproduction’

The Columbus Museum of Art’s exhibition of the six historic Dresden tapestries belatedly commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Italian master’s death