Most recent hire without an open competition is viewed by critics as latest step in government's agenda of placing conservative appointees in control of cultural institutions

Power plant arts centre backed by Russian billionaire makes its long-awaited debut with a “dream exhibition” for Ragnar Kjartansson and a carnival in four acts

National Capital Planning Commission welcomes revisions to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s proposal for an expanded reflecting pool and stacked stone walls

The Cuban American artist on the advanced technology he uses to create his drawings and objects

Discovery announced as part of new excavations that will open up the ancient beachfront to visitors

Among the amenities in the works is an observation space where visitors can watch resident artists at work

Plans to revamp the fire-ravaged cathedral with contemporary art and multilingual projections of Bible quotes have been compared to Disneyland

So far 25 institutions have contributed 8,000 entries; the plan is to expand it and translate it into several languages

Hani Rashid says he was ghosted by the Moscow city government

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco makes four key hires ahead of a series of pop-up events and exhibitions starting in January

Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

The path, which was rediscovered in 1949, connects the temples of Luxor and Karnak in the east of the country

‘Futures’ inaugurates the renovated Arts and Industries Building with an array of technological wonders ranging from the prosaic to the otherworldly

The first ever mosaic illustrating scenes from Homer’s Iliad, it would have decorated an imposing dining and entertainment space within a major villa complex

Funding from Alwaleed Philanthropies will support Multaka project working with 200 refugees and asylum seekers over the next five years

Dealers are eagerly filling curatorial gaps in new museums with shows for their artists, but does the market hold too much sway?

Critics round on exhibition’s alternative interpretations of Hogarth paintings, describing them as "wokeish drivel"

Sanaa architects masterplan turns 1920s site in Moscow into vast exhibition space and library

Arthur Boyd's rural home—which hosts his collection and Australia's largest residency programme—will reopen after a major expansion in early 2022

Famous Mattioli collection loan will make Museo del Novecento “undoubtedly the most important centre for Futurist art” when it goes on display next spring

Chaco Canyon, a Unesco World Heritage site since 1987, was to be opened to drilling under a Trump administration plan

Technical studies on neglected painting cast valuable light on the workings of the Renaissance master's Florence studio and on the question of attribution

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces are back on view after a major building transformation and “looking better than ever”

The director of the Pitt Rivers Museum says the report is a step in the restitution process

Collection of Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani finds a long-term home at the Hôtel de la Marine, the former repository of French royal furniture, art and jewels

The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism

René Morales of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and Jamillah James of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will fill key vacancies at the MCA

More than 200 workers at the museum are striking for a day in protest of stalled contract negotiations

Museum of the Home trustees vote to relocate the sculpture after UK government pressured them to keep it

The British Prime Minister met with Greek leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who reiterates that the ancient sculptures should be shown at the Acropolis Museum

Excavations at monumental site Karahan Tepe, near the Turkish-Syrian border, suggest that society was established before the dawn of agriculture

Less-experienced artists carved body parts, while master sculptors worked on faces among archaeologist's discoveries at the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

A relic of national importance, the man-made cave is all that remains of his villa and gardens—and is only accessible through a school dining hall

A collaboration between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the National Museum of Cambodia revealed that each boy god had been given the other’s limbs during earlier conservation work

This world-class institution is a magnificent achievement, but it faces a profoundly different political environment today from its inception 25 years ago

Museum says ban protects the building and sculptures—but has attracted criticism for ostracising younger generation

Concerns persist that a government-backed renovation of the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi could endanger its collection of 139,000 ancient and modern works

Annual financial accounts show extent of fall in visitor numbers at national museums

Wolfgang Haney, who died in 2017, assembled 15,000 postcards, leaflets, photographs and more bearing witness to the persecution of Jewish people

The data, published today, found 67 individuals connected to the slave trade including John Julius Angerstein who helped to establish the museum's collection

Previous discoveries made during the excavation of the Civita Giuliana villa include a ceremonial chariot and the bodies of two men

Ehrhardt Bödecker’s family requested the removal after his “militaristic, anti-democratic and in some respects, radically right-wing and antisemitic” views became public

Newsreader Huw Edwards will now be invited to the museum to hear more about the reinterpretation process

“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says

We talk to museum innovators around the world who are taking climate action, from the art on the walls to the food on the restaurant menu

Consuelo Císcar, the former director of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, is said to have bought works attributed to Gerardo Rueda—but that were painted by his son

Little has been know about the city of Karakorum where Genghis Khan once established a camp—until now

The tomb from the time of King Ramesses II is the latest big discovery at Saqqara, south of Cairo

Thirteen new structures now flank the main museum building of the complex, which houses Rivera's collection of pre-Hispanic art

The poor condition of the London museum’s Greek and Assyrian galleries—with roofs in disrepair causing long closures—is adding to calls for the restitution of the contested works

Skeletons of 12 men believed to have fought in the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 have been discovered in Brno

Russian influencer posts aftermath of assault to her 1.5 million followers as state authorities target social media users posting in museums

Hannah Fry and Jo Foster quit museum as it partners with Indian company Adani to sponsor a new "green" gallery, due to open in 2023

The Nesr Art Foundation, a philanthropic enterprise by the family behind Webcor Group, intends to counter under-representation of African art

Site for black artists expected to open in 2024 with site-specific commission by Theaster Gates

Following restitution of a cockerel sculpture by Jesus College, the University of Aberdeen will hand over another looted artefact in a ceremony today

The Anatolian artefact had been on long-term loan to London's Victoria & Albert Museum, although not on display. Restitution is a complex issue, but in this case it was the right move

The great Rococo painting in the Wallace Collection in London has been cleaned, revealing some mischievous details

Ancient artefacts were on loan to Amsterdam museum when Crimea was annexed in 2014

The piece was part of the Gilbert Collection which is not bound by the same legal restrictions around deaccessioning as the London museum