Museums & Heritage

Noguchi Museum fires three employees for failing to comply with new institutional dress code

The firings come after museum leaders disciplined several employees who refused to remove their keffiyehs, traditional scarves often worn as a sign of support for Palestinians

Bellevue Arts Museum closes

The Washington state institution’s optimistic director hopes a larger museum will step in as a partner

MoMA’s longtime director Glenn Lowry will step down in 2025

Lowry’s 30-year tenure at the museum included many milestones, from the merger that created MoMA PS1 to multiple renovations and expansions

Art Institute of Chicago receives $75m gift to support campus overhaul

The collectors and philanthropists Aaron Fleischman and Lin Lougheed will one day have a building named in honour of their donation, one of the largest in the museum’s history

Long-planned Las Vegas art museum given plot of land downtown

After decades of efforts to build an art museum in the city, a plan led by collector and philanthropist Elaine Wynn has real momentum—and, now, real estate

Omaha's Joslyn Art Museum reopens after $100m expansion

The museum expanded its exhibition space and reorganised its permanent collection for the first time in almost 100 years—with a special focus on Native American art

Julie Mehretu creates towering glass mural for Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

The artist's 83ft-tall work, “Uprising of the Sun”, is the most prominent of many art commissions for the centre

‘A driving force’: show at London’s Freud Museum to celebrate the women central to psychoanalyst’s world

The exhibition opening in October will bring together works by artists including Paula Rego, Cornelia Parker, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas

Stairway to Rococo heaven reopens as Jacquemart-André restoration completes

Masterpieces from Rome’s Galleria Borghese will be on show alongside the built-in Tiepolo frescos of the Jacquemart-André museum, a Belle Epoque mansion originally built for a wealthy banker and his portrait-painting wife

Ready for the art-world reckoning?

The Readying the Museum group has created a blueprint to help institutions address inequity within their own walls—and to make the public, rather than trustees, their key priority

MFA Boston returns necklace that was likely looted from a tomb to Turkey

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

Animal rights protestors stage die-in at London’s Courtauld Gallery

Members of the activist group Peta occupied the institution‘s LVMH Great Room

New London Museum gets £50m cash boost in face of rising costs

The original budget for the museum has so far been surpassed by £100m

‘At Tate Modern, I want us to take real risks’: director outlines her plans to borrow rather than buy some works of Indigenous art

Karin Hindsbo, director of the London gallery for the past year, wants it to be a ground-breaking institution. She discusses plans to raise annual visitor numbers to six million and for a free festival to mark next year’s 25th birthday

Art Gallery of Ontario receives 37 works from late telecoms executive's estate

Philip B. Lind left the Toronto museum a trove of works by Stan Douglas, Jeff Wall, Ai Weiwei, William Kentridge, Laurie Simmons and others

Hirshhorn Museum hires its first curator of Latin American and Latin diasporic art

The Colombian curator José Roca has curated several major international biennials and was previously the adjunct curator of Latin American art at Tate

Cost of Vancouver Art Gallery's new building balloons by 50%, reaching $444m

The museum’s director claimed the sharp increase was due to a precipitous rise in construction costs in recent years, though a prominent collector called this explanation “preposterous”

Former university museum director drops lawsuit seeking to block sale of works to fund dormitory repairs

The deaccessioning dispute at Valparaiso University’s Brauer Museum of Art centres on works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Frederic Church and Childe Hassam collectively valued at up to $15m

Revamped Wiener Holocaust Library to reopen with exhibition on celebrated Jewish sculptor

The library, which houses the world’s oldest collection of archival material on the Nazi era, will present works by Fred Kormis in a newly renovated exhibition space

Miami’s Vizcaya Museum will save century-old pool-grotto mural with National Park Service grant

The rare work by the Gilded Age artist Robert Winthrop Chanler is endangered by the surrounding water and Miami's humid conditions

World’s first museum of Sufi art to debut in Paris

The Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO opens at challenging moment for France’s Muslim community

Three looted objects from ancient Egyptian graves returned by the Netherlands

The restitutions are seen as reflective of the way museums are paying closer attention to the provenance of works in their collections

British Museum names architects shortlisted in controversial renovation competition

Environmental campaigners previously called on practices not to take part in the contest following a £50m funding pledge from BP

From ‘Brat summer’ to Brat fundraiser: Charli xcx to headline Lacma gala

The museum’s next Art+Film Gala on 2 November will honour the artist Simone Leigh and the film-maker Baz Luhrmann

Lacma, Moca and the Hammer Museum jointly acquire significant collection of works by Los Angeles artists

The three museums will share 260 pieces from the collection of Jarl and Pamela Mohn, plus recent and future acquisitions of works by local artists

‘Once in a generation chance’: Hampton Court conservation grants visitors closer look at Chapel Royal

Works by Sir Christopher Wren and Sir James Thornhill can be observed from the chapel's Royal Pew until September

Cranach portrait will be sold in accord between Pennsylvania museum and Jewish heirs

The portrait of the Duke of Saxony, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in January 2025

New York's Department of Cultural Affairs awards institutions more than $200m for capital projects

A $4.3m renovation grant will help restore the historical Art Students League to its former glory

Release of Olena Pekh highlights plight of other Ukrainian cultural workers languishing in Russian prisons

Through Vatican mediation, the museum researcher was freed alongside nine others earlier this summer