The unusual move follows years of negotiations between the museum, the collector and the Kingdom of Benin

The longtime curator of arms and armour has served as the museum’s chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since January 2024

The experimental images feature in a new exhibition centred on a personal family scrapbook

The deaccessioned works, to be offered at Christie's in New York, include 17 pieces by Dutch and Flemish artists from the 17th century

The work, made while the young photographer was in Paris, will be exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work

The museum's latest exhibition explains and scrutinises democracy through objects spanning 2,500 years

The Wyss Foundation’s donation will create more than 5,000 sq. ft of extra space for the museum’s 20th-century art collection

Investigations by both the museum's internal team and experts from Turkey's Ministry of Culture suggested the gold and carnelian artefact was exported illegally

Teitelbaum has navigated one of the US’s most prominent art museums through a decade of renovations, revamped education initiatives, scandals and shutdowns

In the reopened galleries, rotating exhibits highlight collection gems—including seven newly conserved Buddha statues—and technology add-ons expand learning

The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970

The Gallery Systems software used by many cultural institutions has been breached, limiting online access for both museum employees and the general public

The artist’s portraits will be shown at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston alongside the clothes worn by his glamorous subjects

Two exhibitions, in Boston and Baltimore, celebrate the overlooked women artists who were working in Europe from the 15th century onwards

"Customers Conversing in a Tavern" (1671) by Dutch Golden Age painter Adriaen van Ostade is up on display after a six years of research and negotiations

Travelling show debuted at the Getty and now opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The contract was approved by 87% of union members and ensures double-digit wage and salary increases over the next three years

The museum, which holds the largest French Impressionist collection outside of France, will use proceeds from sales of around 2,000 NFTs to conserve two Degas paintings

Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi

The changing of dates of a four-city survey, purportedly due to the artist’s Ku Klux Klan motifs, caused uproar in 2020. Now, after a curatorial rethink, the first exhibition is set to open

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

Atlanta’s High Museum showcases the work of the Hungarian-born photographer André Kertész, while MFA Boston draws on its archive for an exhibition of photos by unknown enthusiasts

More than 200 workers at the museum are striking for a day in protest of stalled contract negotiations

After charges of racism levelled at his museum in 2019, Teitelbaum had to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. And then there was the Guston controversy

Some say they hope to reopen in January, while many others have remained shut for nearly a full year

From Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Tate show playlist to the MFA Boston’s Basquiat and hip-hop soundtrack, music can have a profound effect on how we view art

An overwhelming 90% of employees voted to join the United Auto Workers Local 2110

A new show at the Museum of Fine Arts recalls the time when the US city was first captivated by the French Impressionist

Citing “unease and anxiety” about the show, the director of MFA, Boston predicts it will spur “in-depth discussions about great art”