Our exclusive Visitor Figures 2023 survey shows that many of the world’s leading art museums returned to their pre-pandemic attendance levels. But some, especially in the UK, are still missing millions of visitors

A two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts

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

The artists' forthcoming façade and rooftop installations at the museum will explore the intersections of identity and art history

An export licence has now been deferred a second time to allow the UK museum to raise funds

Decades after sparking protests, the museum takes another pass at presenting Manhattan’s historical centre of Black creativity

The annual benefit gala's theme for this year is "The Garden of Time"; as usual, Vogue editor Anna Wintour will chair the event

An innovative agreement between the Metropolitan Museum, American businessman Leonard N. Stern and the Greek government led to the new display of 161 Cycladic antiquities at the New York museum

The 12th-century walrus ivory sculpture represents “one of the most culturally and aesthetically significant objects” the UK government’s reviewing committee has handled in the past five years

Plus, last Donatello in private hands is sold to Bargello and Courtauld’s Claudette Johnson purchase helps demarginalise Black women

Dick Wolf gives works by Van Gogh, Bronzino and Artemisia Gentileschi to the New York museum

The Gilbert Stuart painting is one of less than 20 versions of the image known to exist

The museum had been pressured and petitioned for years to return objects tied to smuggler Douglas Latchford

Petrit Halilaj, Lee Bul and Tong Yang-Tze have been chosen to complete new projects at one of the most visited museums in the US

An array of artefacts show how cultural cross-pollination thrived across centuries and continents under Byzantine rule

Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

The artworks include an 11th-century stone sculpture donated by a relative of a longtime curator of Asian art at the Met

The Met’s main store, just off its great hall, will be relocated to ground level, in part to accommodate the museum’s hugely popular Costume Institute exhibitions

Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars

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

The artist is the fourth to receive the museum's commission to install work on the Fifth Avenue entrance of its Neoclassical building

From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more

The show will focus on the movement’s influences on Modernism on both sides of the Atlantic

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The app, Replica, is a partnership with Verizon that lets visitors deploy works from the museum’s collection in the popular game Roblox

Joanna Smith and Tim Martin face up to five years in prison after smearing paint on the case and pedestal of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art

Joe Scotland is made an MBE while Deborah Swallow of the Courtauld and Andrew Bolton at the Met are also recognised

The new facility will bring science-based material exploration, art activities and countless forms of play to the museum's youngest patrons

Hazardous air blowing smoke into the city from fires in Canada pressed cultural institutions and art spaces to close or postpone events