Admission will be raised by €1 to support relief efforts in the affected Emilia-Romagna region

Audrey Azoulay met President Zelensky and toured sites in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa during an official visit to the country this week

Nigeria’s art market has exploded in recent years—a newly elected government may now fund and build a museum sector

Plus, the Met: a guard’s memoir and Hubert Robert at Stockholm's Nationalmuseum

The outpost would be the gallery's latest international satellite and the latest of many France-driven arts initiative in the Middle Eastern country

As the Washington Principles turn 25, the complexities of restitution in a global art world have mushroomed—leaving lessons to be learned for institutions, governments and art market players

World-famous museums overseen by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be given more autonomy and their own budgets

Plus, Afghan culture in crisis and Kiki Smith’s New York murals

Plus, UK culture cuts and Ukrainian Modernism in Madrid

While Arts Council England slashed many organisations’ funding, the German government set aside nearly €1bn to help cultural institutions weather the financial storm

Learning and community outreach programmes under threat as Arts Council England funding shift wreaks deep financial damage on institutions

The National Audit Office will release detailed data on the eight-month "Unboxed" event next week

An "ideological tightening" is spreading through the country as its leader begins a norms-defying third five-year term

Anticipated audience figures for event dubbed the Festival of Brexit will be released later this month

The Greek state is now the sole owner of the artefacts but all 161 pieces will be on a 25-year loan to the Met from January 2024

Move rebuffs George Osborne, the chair of the British Museum, who proposed a new collaborative arrangement

Major restitution development coincides with publication of new Arts Council England guidelines

Officials will loan the ancient sculptures only if they are returned to London

Question mark over historic Whitechapel site a year after boutique hotel plan approved

Project by Oxford’s Institute for Digital Archaeology fuels debate about restitution of controversial sculptures

Cultural understanding “cancelled” as Russia withdraws from 1998 memorandum and museums wind down “all direct communications and collaborative work”

Tristram Hunt aims to start a “conversation” about the act next year, arguing that some items should be allowed to be restituted or deaccessioned

More than 1,100 looted items will be transferred though some artefacts will remain on loan to German museums

HMRC is penalising art world "participants" that have failed to register under the new anti-money laundering legislations

State meddling is “annihilating capacity of institutions”, says commissioner of Museum Watch Governance Management Project

Culture pass, restitution issues and metaverse will be on her agenda

Sector professionals raise concerns about minister Jacob Rees-Mogg’s intervention

As Macron and Le Pen face off in the second round of the presidential battle, cultural policy is likely to continue taking a back seat

Culture ministry earmarks EU pandemic recovery funds to mitigate the impact of future disasters on religious buildings around the country

Loan initiative aims to decentralise Italian collections and encourage more people to visit smaller museums