MoMA, the Whitney, the Morgan, the American Folk Art Museum, the New Museum, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum announce plans to welcome the public, joining the Met and the New-York Historical Society

The gift from the late patron’s husband will also help create a photography endowment fund through the sale of some works

Poorly paid and with few employment benefits, freelance museum educators are more likely to be people of colour compared with full-time staff

Signatories cite “unfair practices”, unequal pay and lack of diversity

Experts embrace a blend of remote monitoring and on-site tours, while marvelling at diminished levels of dust

Three publications explore the artist’s life through his writings, interviews and places of work

From the Museum of Modern Art's home cooking interviews to the Blanton Museum's bakeoff

Museum director Glenn D. Lowry describes it as taking a “chainsaw” to spending

Art historians and curators urge galleries to support education staff during coronavirus crisis

Plus, Dia Art Foundation's curator Donna De Salvo on Duchamp’s Étant Donnés. Produced in association with Christie's

Plus, Sean Scully talks about his favourite "lonely work", The Moroccans by Matisse in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Produced in association with Christie's

The museums of Modern art in New York and San Francisco are leading the way on promoting digital content on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook

The artist’s requirement that his works be viewed through a relaxed prism may be too much for a post-pandemic world

The exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, featuring 70 works made between 1960 and 1992, will trace the artist's development by focusing on key turning points in his career

The designer has employed natural processes and used materials from plants and shellfish for her exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art

The film, directed by her daughter Catherine, shows the roots of the collector's social activism

The photographs will go on view in the New York museum's permanent collection galleries in May, along with a selection of works by other artists and a clip from the classic 1971 film Shaft

The artist’s prints and assemblage works use symbolism to ascribe meaning to Black women’s place in the world

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

We look back at the biggest stories of the year

Banksy makes his debut at number 14 while dealer David Zwirner drops from first place to fifth

After a $450m expansion and radical rehang, has the 20th century’s emblematic museum found a place in the 21st?

After grand expansion, New York museum is already planning to swap out more than 700 works next spring

Among the most striking examples of the museum's more global and inclusive approach is a gallery with the theme War Within, War Without

From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum

Museum unveils experimental Studio for live art and invites public participation in the Creativity Lab

Curators and dealers perceive a “new metabolism” in the permanent collection galleries

Demonstrators blocked the museum’s entrance and sat in the street as they demanded the removal of Steven Tananbaum — a financier whose company owns $2.5bn in Puerto Rican debt — from its board of trustees