Museums
Barbenheimer has lessons for us all
Could museums replicate the unlikely film pairing that became a massive hit?
Why do US museum workers want to quit?
Employees in the sector increasingly find their jobs exhausting and unfulfilling—but how can they avoid burnout at work?
MoMA raises ticket price to $30 as US museums face tough choices on entry fees
Many of the biggest art museums in New York and elsewhere have raised the price of general admission to $30, while others continue to pursue free-entry policies
Cairo art centre faces demolition as new roads threaten heritage sites
Darb 1718, 'a really significant space', hosts contemporary art exhibitions, concerts, events and workshops
East Sussex institution hails the pioneering queer couple who changed textiles
The Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is displaying an exhibition that pays homage to the unsung influence and secret history of Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen
Fears grow for Georgian museum created to salute purged writers after director sacked
The Museum of Repressed Writers in Tbilisi was created to remember the creatives who were silenced by the Soviet Union. But, after months of political tension, the future of the museum hangs in the balance
American museum educators are trying a more playful approach
Two New York institutions are overhauling their education facilities, while others test a digital-first style of art pedagogy
Crimean museum director sanctioned by EU and Switzerland
Andrei Vitalievich Maglin is holding thousands of works from the Ukrainian city of Kherson
Does the search for US museum leaders lack transparency?
Julia Halperin examines the often mysterious recruitment procedure for new museum directors in the US, which has come under increased scrutiny
'Never trustee an MP: why politicians should stay off boards of cultural institutions'
The "arm's length" principle, which frowns on political meddling in museums, is being eroded by policy hawks, writes artist and activist Bob and Roberta Smith
Will Italy's right-wing government control who gets to direct the nation’s biggest museums?
Art historians are concerned the culture ministry is lining up candidates to run top institutions including Florence’s Uffizi Galleries and Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera
Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow shreds box-office record with Banksy exhibition
With his first official solo show in 14 years, Banksy left his tag on the Scottish city, home to the mysterious street artist's favourite work of art in the UK
Shanay Jhaveri—the Barbican Centre’s first non-British head of visual arts—reveals his plans for the London institution
The Indian curator, appointed a year after a racism dispute at the centre, hopes to diversify audiences and expand the presence of art across the Brutalist complex
Couple behind Shanghai's Long Museum to sell part of their collection at Sotheby's
Paintings by Modigliani and Kusama among the 50 works to be offered in Hong Kong—with more potentially coming to the block in New York
Remembering Kavita Singh, acclaimed historian of Indian art and museology, who has died, aged 58
An expert on Mughal, Rajput and Deccan painting traditions, she was unafraid to address rising nationalism in state-led cultural institutions
'Controversy at Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Delhi raises important questions over private museums in public life'
The firing of a curator for making critical statements against the museum's founder has prompted a long-overdue debate within the art world
New museum in Saudi Arabia bolsters collection after inking partnership deal with Centre Pompidou
The contemporary art institution is one of 15 “cultural assets” in development in the Arabian state’s AlUla heritage region
Suspects arrested in theft of gold coins from German museum
The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century
Hackers attack Nazi-linked collection exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich
Visitors who accessed text via QR codes saw collector Emil Georg Bührle described as “a Nazi sympathiser, authoritarian militarist, at the very least a war profiteer and probably a war criminal”
The Burrell Collection in Glasgow wins the Art Fund Museum of the Year award
The museum won the prize for its six-year refurbishment and redisplay of one of Scotland's largest art collections, amassed by the late shipping magnate William Burrell
Special report: Funding cuts and weak economy send UK’s visual arts into crisis
From regional galleries becoming “unsustainable” to brutal cuts to funding of museums, galleries and arts and humanities education, the sector is in an increasingly perilous state
Recognising what’s special about museums: marking 10 years of the Art Fund Museum of the Year prize
The finalists for the 2023 Museum of the Year award, all of which focus on the importance of community engagement, will compete for a record £120,000 prize
The MAC: The Belfast museum that reaches out to Northern Ireland's disadvantaged communities
Spurred by a rise in hate crime in the region, The MAC has been collaborating with five charities to open the museum to minority groups
Scapa Flow Museum: the small museum that records Orkney's pivotal role in both world wars
The collection of naval artefacts in the Scottish archipelago reopened in 2022 after a multi-million pound refurbishment
The Burrell Collection: the recently reopened Glasgow museum is asking fresh questions of its objects and its audience
The country-park-based collection has returned with a new mission to create more diverse audiences and abandon preconceptions
Poet and translator to sue British Museum for copyright and moral rights infringement
Vancouver-based Yilin Wang has raised more than £15,000 via Crowd Justice to begin legal proceedings
National Gallery London masterpieces show in Shanghai sets record for visitor numbers
Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger
Musée Picasso president hits back at ahistorical critics as artist's troubling relationship with women comes into focus
Cécile Debray believes a truthful representation of Picasso’s life is “an important fight for everybody”
National Gallery summer party puts the fun in funding
Lavish event helps museum edge closer to £95m target for ambitious NG200 programme
New Istanbul culture hub seeks to make art more public
ArtIstanbul Feshane opens in an expansive 19th-century military factory to reach more of the city’s 16 million inhabitants