As his new book is released, the new secretary of the Smithsonian Institution talks of extending its reach beyond Washington

The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II

Digitisation effort draws on works from four institutions in a push for cultural preservation

The private museum cited low attendance records over the past few weeks in a short letter to nearly six dozen workers who recently announced they voted to join a union

The German curator was previously accused of conflicting interests between the Amsterdam museum and her private consulting work

Paris-based institutions Musée National Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti will open space in 798 district next June

There is a direct connection between how predominantly white curators have categorised Indigenous peoples as part of “natural history” and how we are misrepresented in contemporary art spaces

Museum plans to send 300 portraits a year on tour around the country during £35.5m redevelopment

Coalition of curators organise events and exhibitions of art by women at 50 museums

Millionaire Jonathan Ruffer’s ambitious regeneration of a small former mining town in northern England reveals 1,000 years of history and art

More than three years after the massacre, a winning design has been selected for a $45m museum and memorial campus, but some survivors and victims’ families would rather it stay unbuilt.

The Los Angeles and Shanghai institutions say their joint foundation is still in progress

The arts and performance venue has refused to accept a £1m grant from the Sackler Trust because of risk it would "distract from its work with young people"

After grand expansion, New York museum is already planning to swap out more than 700 works next spring

Sandra Jackson-Dumont will take over in January as leader of George Lucas’s $1bn project in Los Angeles

Culture chief Chris Dercon says the new space will hold events during the museum's three-year refurbishment, including a collaboration with Unesco

From next spring the foundation will hold exhibitions "in whatever part of the world I feel the dialogue is needed”, says founder Ziba Ardalan

“It’s the most spectacular representation of a tournament of that time,” a Met curator says

Leonid Mikhelson says that the "frightening" cost that he had initially anticipated for the GES-2 complex has doubled

Exhibition profiles the intrepid Baroness Hyde de Neuville, who chased down Napoleon and was friendly with America's founding fathers—and never stopped drawing

Iraqi culture ministry announces new national museum in Baghdad as Mosul restoration plan is extended to historic churches

Among the most striking examples of the museum's more global and inclusive approach is a gallery with the theme War Within, War Without

From thermal heat maps to diagrams outlining escape routes for undocumented immigrants

New programme at Little Tokyo satellite is named after trustee Wonmi Kwon, who funded it with $5m gift

Washington's National Portrait Gallery will display finalists’ work in a contest that helped to vault the reputation of Amy Sherald

Brighton CCA, run by the University of Brighton, launches with exhibitions on German artist Franz Erhard Walther and south London collective Dog Kennel Hill Project

Museum unveils experimental Studio for live art and invites public participation in the Creativity Lab

Supporters of new international Climate Heritage Network argue that the sector has a “moral duty” to act

Curators and dealers perceive a “new metabolism” in the permanent collection galleries