Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago

Yemisi Shyllon hopes other Nigerian collectors will follow his example and help found teaching museums that promote art education

We speak to two of the museum's curators leading the expansion and our New York team sit down to discuss the highs and lows of the new space. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

As the museum opens an ambitious $450m expansion, activists are demanding that “vulture fund” investor Steven Tananbaum be taken off the board—but he is not the only trustee with financial interests in the island

The “art factory” will be a conservation, exhibition and storage space and is expected to open in 2025

Bequest comes from New York collector Jayne Wrightsman, who amassed an 18th-century library to complement her celebrated French furnishings

Washington DC’s Museum of the Bible had acquired the artefacts through its founder Steve Green

He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

After being blocked from entering the American Museum of Natural History, decolonisation demonstrators took to the streets, ending at the Metropolitan Museum’s steps

The blockbuster exhibition gathers early works by the Flemish master from museums in North America and Europe

Exhibition venue and heritage attraction inside Grade I-listed monument God's House Tower is called GHT

Wizard of Oz vision inspires new $15m contemporary art centre in San Antonio designed by David Adjaye

Museum conducts training sessions, changes procedures and plans a new hire

Redesign by h2o architectes opens up 1930s building—with monumental murals by Matisse and Dufy—to disabled visitors

Before the public opening, we sought out some highlights from the rehang

Rare 16th-century fabric to go on show at Hampton Court Palace after three-year study

How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening

The Dominican-born New York-based artist will create her largest project yet at the seasonal space on Boston Harbor

Queens Museum celebrates a cartoonist who seems more relevant than ever

Installations range from Haim Steinbach’s phrases and slogans to Yoko Ono’s blue sky

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist terrier to vintage prints by Vivian Maier

Deputy director’s swingeing salary cuts trigger resignations of around 50 employees at Moscow theatre museum

While early reactions have been mostly positive, a group of activists and victims’ families would rather see a support centre on the site

Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government

Reservations will become mandatory at the world's most visited museum by the end of the year

In an exclusive interview, Jean-Luc Martinez reveals his big plans for the museum and why 250,000 objects must leave Paris

The brightly coloured painting, depicting the same family scene, has been in private hands for decades, most recently the Chilean Alana Collection

The French artist, who made his name with large-scale public installations, is opening his biggest US exhibition to date

The changes also include plans for immersive installations and artist residencies