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

The institution will return funds donated by the defunct exchange and hedge fund led by Sam Bankman-Fried prior to its untimely collapse

The artist's 100th birthday coincides with an array of exhibition programming, celebrations and municipal recognitions of Kelly's legacy

The figurines, which were looted from the ancient city of Uruk, belong to one of the oldest civilisations on earth

How the flamelike trees came to rival the sunflowers as a signature motif

Brown's survey exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art brings fresh eyes to a time-tested medium

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

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

X-ray technology has revealed that a hidden man in the background of 'A Maid Asleep' is holding a paintbrush

The chandeliers made from repurposed plastic bottles are similar to sculptures Cole has been making and showing for a decade

The red carpet delivered countless interpretations of the late designer’s iconic wardrobe and his treasured Birman cat, Choupette

The fashion designer’s fantastical sketches are given equal billing with the dresses that made him famous

For the New York installation, the Californian artist has carved onto a concrete pavilion references to Afrofuturism and funk music and images of her family and friends

The artist has been commissioned to create a work for the museum’s main entryway that will incorporate 3D scans of more than 100 objects in the Met’s collection

Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez

The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection

Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career

The New York institution, usually the most popular art museum in the US, was overtaken in 2022 by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

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

A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam now describes the abstract painter as Ukrainian, while The Met reclassifies other painters who were born or worked in the country

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

The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office

We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum

Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say

The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and everyone is invited