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Harem work removed from show at Qatar's Arab Museum of Modern Art

Renowned Turkish artist İnci Eviner says her work was pulled "without further explanation and apology" and describes the move as censorship

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The Year in Review: Escalating art attacks and responses to war

This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of art to unite diverse groups of people

Restored Notre-Dame to have its own museum in Paris's Hôtel-Dieu

Institution in historic hospital development could exhibit the heads of the kings of Judea from the cathedral's medieval statues

Shanghai’s ‘Meowseum Nights’ a sell-out hit with cat owners (and cats)

Events encouraging visitors to bring feline companions highlighted Ancient Egypt show

Remembering Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, groundbreaking director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Charismatic leader who steered the museum through a difficult period in the 1980s, and later became a university vice-chancellor

Rijksmuseum launches AI tool to help make connections in 800,000-strong collection

The “art explorer” project allows the Dutch museum's vast holdings to be more searchable

Turmoil at Slovak National Gallery as department heads offer their resignations

Development comes after 177 staff also threaten to quit in protest at the ministry of culture’s handling of the country’s leading art institution

Pro-Palestine boycott of Goldsmiths CCA ends after gallery cuts ties with donors

Students ended the action, which had led to the London institution’s temporary closure over the summer, after the names of Candida and Zak Gertler were removed from one of the CCA’s galleries and its donor list

This month's museum acquisitions round-up: Nan Goldin, Artemisia Gentileschi and Picasso

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

‘A house of opportunities’: the changing fortunes of England’s largest country home

Seven years ago Wentworth Woodhouse was in a sorry state, now it turns over £3.5m a year—but how did this palace-sized property achieve such success?

The Louvre’s department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian art is taking shape—at last

Years in the making, plans for the department were shelved a decade ago; now it is due to open in 2027

Eike Schmidt unveils restoration and loans projects in Naples after losing Florence electoral bid

The director of the Museo di Capodimonte plans to restore 21 Renaissance paintings from the collection

Vienna Art Week celebrates 20th anniversary with Rembrandt—and lots of gold

Event, which was the first of its kind in the world and now involves more than 20 institutions, is run by museums rather than dealers

Just a year after opening, Serge Gainsbourg’s house museum hits financial trouble

The Graffiti-strewn building became a pilgrimage for devotees of the singer when it opened 32 years after his death—but despite healthy ticket sales, the institution has racked up huge debts, with its backers accused of mismanagement

Victoria and Albert Museum reveals opening date and programme for ambitious new east London storehouse

The museum has also announced details of the much anticipated David Bowie Centre, due to be housed on the same site

'Courageous and resilient individuals': why the Illinois Holocaust Museum is embracing virtual reality to share survivors’ stories

New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community

Will the Warhol Museum’s $80m plan pop?

Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum has big dreams for its Pop District project—but critics say the institution is putting all its soup cans in one basket

'One of the most exciting unknown stories from the Napoleonic Wars': British escapee's military disguise goes on display in London

Midshipman Charles Hare's account of his escape from a French prison, alongside the outfit he fled in, can be seen from today at the National Maritime Museum

London's National Gallery to ban liquids after attacks on paintings

The gallery will introduce new security measures, stating it has been "forced to act to protect our visitors, staff and collection"

Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum partially opens—but Tutankhamun Gallery remains closed

Some of the galleries in the museum near the Giza pyramids are now open to the public

Iceland plans national gallery overhaul

The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik

Indonesia's national museum reopens after devastating fire

Exhibition of 2,500 repatriated objects, including the "Lombok treasure", inaugurates the newly refurbished space

The unmissable museum shows during Art Basel Paris

From a canon-reshaping survey of Surrealism to an unearthing of the zombie myth

Restoration begins on rare Ludovico Mazzolino painting at the National Gallery of Ireland

The Italian Renaissance master’s few remaining large paintings are a conservation headache, but the museum hopes to show its Crossing of the Red Sea for the first time next year

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An open letter from the National Museum Directors' Council: 'these attacks have to stop'

The leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums highlight the "enormous stress for colleagues at every level of an organisation" and "visitors who now no longer feel safe" following series of protester attacks on museum works

Heritage sites on new offshoot of Spain’s Camino could benefit from pilgrim boom

While travellers rarely stop to sightsee, providing overnight facilities will give historic venues an edge

Security guards at London's Science Museum and Natural History Museum to strike over pay

The workers, who will start the action at the end of this month, say they are treated as “second-class employees”

Acquisition funds get first pick at Frieze London

Curators select works by under-represented groups for Tate, while Art Council Collection purchases focus on early-to mid-career artists