Initiative questions why gyms, hair salons and brothels have reopened but culture venues remain closed in the Netherlands

Curator is overseeing a major Robert Indiana show due to launch this spring

Nathalie Bondil, who was fired in 2020, was seeking $1.5m in moral and punitive damages from the museum’s board

Two bronze Buddha statues are likely to make records for cultural artefacts at auction in Korea

The £10m public grant is part of a new initiative aimed at equalising quality of living between the north and south

The ruling BJP has been accused by a rival party of "selling off Delhi's history" following new licensing around historic structures in the capital

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees will now represent 266 employees at the museum and another 249 at the school

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the capital sustained some damage, according to a government statement

The Longlati Foundation in Shanghai and the Macalline Art Center and Fen Sonic HQ in Beijing put curation at the forefront

The researchers are investigating the origins of 200 artefacts from Cameroon at Munich’s Museum Fünf Kontinente

Prices for Ultra Rare editions start at €4,999 but museum sales percentage remains under wraps

Gladstone Pottery Museum to be used as a film location under controversial council proposals

‘Portrait of Frederick A. Gale’ is quintessential of Phillips’s paintings of children, who are the subjects of his most beloved works

The 2,400-year-old remains of tea leaves were discovered in a royal tomb in Shandong province

There’s a campaign against discussions of race in the American education system—and museums have a part to play in fighting that

Government museums body takes control of repatriated artefacts after ruler of Benin challenges new trust set up to unify Nigerian claimants

Shepparton Art Museum opened late last year but a ballooning budget and conflicting local politics have made led to a mixed reception

In a trio of current and upcoming exhibitions, the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University will showcase prints, paintings and a sonic environment that champion underrepresented narratives

A dozen boxes of materials found in the Museum of Modern Art’s library served as the impetus for a new exhibition on the legacy of the Artists Call group at Tufts University Art Galleries

Covid continued to impact on French museum visits, but the government provided a much-needed financial safety net

The council of state upheld a previous ruling preventing the fast food chain from opening at the popular heritage site

New law will set up expert commission to sift through thousands of objects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa

Negotiations have been delayed, with wages proving a major sticking point and with administrators proposing increases well below union members’ demands

The Metropolitan Museum will stay opened at reduced capacity, while others like the Yale University Art Gallery and the Baltimore Museum of Art close temporarily

Despite challenges wrought by the pandemic and earthquake-caused damage to its building, the museum has a new director and new momentum

Obata was incarcerated at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah during the Second World War; now 35 of his works have been acquired by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Who had a good year and who had a bad one? We aim to find out

Natural History Museum closes due to front-of-house staff shortages caused by Covid-19

The 1840 profile portrait is part of a collection of early photographic works by Henry Fitz Jr. that is joining the Kansas City museum’s holdings

A London panel has assembled the largest cache of evidence on the concentration camps in Xinjiang, but museums will not say if they have examined it

Kunstmuseum Bern announces results of in-depth provenance investigation of controversial 2014 bequest

Proposal was put forward by 16 Arabic-speaking countries

The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars

The project includes the addition of a multi-storey entrance and lobby, and is being supported with state and city funds

Among the works joining the museum’s collection are paintings by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley as well as a self-portrait by an artist who worked as a preparator at Lacma for decades

Reviving 17th-century Tijou screens commissioned by Protestant monarchs William and Mary means undoing decades of damage and haphazard repairs

Just a year after launching a studio programme in Accra, its ambitious young founder is turning it into a museum

The galleries, housed in the Michael C. Rockefeller wing of the museum, will be modernised to better contextualise the collection and illustrate the ‘complex story of cultural development over the last 5,000 years’

Loan initiative aims to decentralise Italian collections and encourage more people to visit smaller museums

The McMullen Museum of Art is gaining works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, and others

Renewal of Abu Dhabi deal means the Louvre can partner with the network of museums planned for Saudi Arabia's AlUla region

The foundation said earlier this year that the “aggressive colours“ covering the walls “violated the harmonies“ of Twombly’s pale blue canopy

The Smithsonian commissioned the composer to create a performance responding to an exhibition of objects from the illustrious Tibetan Buddhist art collection of Alice Kandell

We look back on a year of museums commandeered as Covid-19 vaccine centres, masterpieces sold as NFTs and much talk over the Benin bronzes

US museum builds a permanent research space for its "crown jewel"—more than 1,200 works by Henri Matisse

Recent images show militia taking photographs of artefacts on their mobile phones

Zurich museum's displays of the collection of arms dealer Emil Georg Bührle have prompted criticism and a national debate

Owned by the Rothschild family, the vibrant painting is on the open market after France was unable to raise the funds to buy the national treasure

The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition

The announcement comes as museums worldwide sever ties with members of the Sackler family over their role in the opioid crisis

Jaroslaw Suchan's contract has not been extended by the country's minister of culture

Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum

Trueblood, who will replace David Berliner early next year, has a background in government and public service

Monitoring system that includes drones and sensors will track the impact of extreme weather

Complex that will include a research institute for the Barbados Archives—a 400-year-old documentation of the British transatlantic slave trade

The now-defunct jail once held playwright Oscar Wilde on charges of gross indecency between 1895 and 1897

The museum is “eager to work with the relevant parties in Nigeria” to restitute the sculpture

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