The museum’s director Julie Rodrigues Widholm has made several senior-level hires in her first year

So far, the museum has not determined who the boy is, but it has reidentified other figures in the controversial painting, which is about to go back on view

Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove

Kristy Edmunds replaces Joseph C. Thompson after lengthy period of layoffs and new staff union over pandemic

First proposed in 1995, the project has faced multiple delays

East End institution will no longer cater to adults “revelling in nostalgia” and rather be focussed on those aged up to 14 years old

Doron Langberg will pair off with Hans Holbein, and Salman Toor will join Vermeer in the Breuer building this week

Around 100 scholars have signed a petition to the city’s mayor arguing that Marc-Olivier Wahler is not the right person to run the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire

The museum and libarary in northern Manhattan has a new director with a packed agenda—and some needed improvements on its horizon

Lindy Lee's A$14m sculpture will be one of the country's first environmentally sustainable public works

Philanthropist succeeds Tony Hall, who stepped down following row over Princess Diana interview

New deputy director Naomi Beckwith says "we can re-centre where the stories of art are told"

The set of five richly coloured lacquer vessels by artist Chung Haecho will go on show in the New York museum this December

Can another museum with a commitment to broaden Americans’ exposure to great art, including pre-contemporary works, take up the show?

The Leeds institution is making—and collecting—history

Museum of the Year 2021 celebrates the sector’s triumphs in the face of adversity, says Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director and jury chair for the £100,000 prize

The Cité du Vitrail will open in the medieval town of Troyes in spring 2022, but preview tours are running this weekend for the European Heritage Days

Leribault will oversee a major redevelopment of the Musée d’Orsay over the next decade

The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October

The actor debuted a new performance and installation in the Breuer building, before protestors crashed the party at the Costume Institute’s annual celebrity fundraiser

Museo Nacional del Perú (Muna) boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 Pre- Columbian objects, including repatriated artefacts

Russian museum will look beyond the market hype to address deeper questions about "the specific possibilities of this medium", says contemporary art curator Dimitri Ozerkov

The response in Ottawa “shows people crave experiencing visual arts in person”, director Sasha Suda says

Nascent museum proclaims a commitment to economic justice and expansion of the art canon

Move follows long-running dispute with the Italian ministry of culture over the 13th-century Certosa di Trisulti

Deadly rains in central Henan province threatened key Unesco World Heritage sites and hundreds of national relics. Experts warn the disaster may be a taste of future trouble

The new institution has been founded by the private collector and businessman and Rudy Ciccarello

Plus, artist Bill Fontana records Notre Dame's bells

Burton will run the museum with Klaus Biesenbach, who has been reassigned as artistic director in a restructuring

A turf battle may loom on the National Mall, but secretary Lonnie Bunch hopes to limit the hurdles for institutions devoted to Latino culture and women’s history

Scientific testing reveals that the artist radically changed his depiction of a Paris couple in a landmark 1788 painting

Cultural heritage workers estimate they have five years to secure the heritage site’s contents before it is destroyed to extract the ore

The stelae, on loan from Guatemala, feature life-sized depictions of ancient Indigenous leaders

Billed as Uruguay's most comprehensive hub for international contemporary art, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry will open in Punta del Este next January

The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection

Beijing museum unveils plans for fourth location in "one of the most exciting cities in China" and new co-branded U2 exhibition space

"Berkshire House" aims to be a cross-disciplinary creative centre in the region

In 2015, the Association of Art Museum Directors established a structure under which museums can act to protect cultural property in immanent peril

The Lina Bo Bardi-designed museum in Brazil can currently only display 1% of its 11,000-piece collection

Ranging from actor Lynda Carter and tennis star Billie Jean King to former US commerce secretary Penny Pritzker and television executive Abbe Raven, its members are expected to play a crucial role in fundraising

Mayor’s order will be enforced starting on 13 September after a public education campaign

The site’s “Classic Nudes” series still includes erotic explorations of masterpieces at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, National Gallery in London, and Musée d’Orsay in Paris, as well as several other international institutions

Architect's Modernist masterpiece was “incredibly badly built” and took six years and €140m to restore to its former glory

$50m renovation of California institution improves structural stability and helps to showcase the riches of the collection

Demonstrators plant cardboard tombstones outside a New York courthouse to call attention to Purdue Pharma’s role in deaths from the opioid painkiller Oxycontin

David E. Little, who heads Amherst College’s museum, has experience in fund-raising, educating and curating at multiple US institutions

Contemporary art venue has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic

Former BBC culture editor Will Gompertz steps into joint managing director role with Sandeep Dwesar

Historic town, a holy site for millions of Orthodox Christians, caught up in widening Tigray conflict

Three co-presidents rather than one will oversee the institution, which has also recruited a more diverse array of board members

The birthplace of the Olympic Games is one of the many ancient sites at risk as record temperatures scorch country

Louvre specialists worked with Lebanese counterparts to repair the damaged building

A United Auto Workers local that represents employees at several other museums files a petition on their behalf for a union vote

Association of Art Museum Directors should permanently recognise “direct care” of collections as a proper use of art sale proceeds

Leader oversaw an ambitious series of construction projects but has also contended with reports of midlevel management abuses and equity issues

The rambling 365-room mansion is being rescued from near collapse, starting with its tea house

Lawsuit was filed against the Brazilian government earlier this month citing the imminent risk of a blaze

Culture Unstained activists say contract clause is ‘chilling’ but museum group says cutting ties with energy groups is ‘unproductive’

Stipends, ranging from around $7,000 to $100,000, will help museums jump-start clean energy, climate disaster protection and sustainability projects

New York institution says it lost over $37m when it was forced to shut down, but insurance company caps potential coverage at $200,000