Devedjian was leading plans for a museum project in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris, about the reign of Louis XIV

What coronavirus is really forcing us to address is the societal function and justification for public culture in the 21st century, says the Victoria and Albert Museum's director

Last year also saw record attendances at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain

Worker at Istanbul's Dolmabahce Palace is believed to have contracted Covid-19, leading state to be criticised for not closing tourist attractions quick enough

Curators at French museum plan to launch video game centred on contemporary art while its Shanghai satellite reopens to the public

Arts Council England will release a document that addresses the ethical and practical issues around restituting cultural objects, planned for autumn 2020

The charity that runs the historic battleship needs help from the government and the public, says its chief executive Helen Bonser-Wilton

Long-time patron wants ‘a clear understanding’ of how a new building can accommodate the permanent collection highlights it has funded

“Everyone is really whipsawed,” says the New York institution’s president Daniel Weiss, who expects staff reductions

Updates on which cultural institutions are temporarily closing to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic

Here are the best digital initiatives to feed your need for art

Institutions in New York, Boston and Washington underline the need to control the spread of Covid-19

There are currently more than 2,770 coronavirus cases reported in Spain with 64 deaths

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center is reopening with an inaugural exhibition on illumination

Works donated by a collecting couple include paintings by Bonnard, Vuilliard, Matisse, Braque, Caillebotte and many others

Decision by London's British Museum and Science Museum to continue accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies risks alienating the public they serve

Decision comes amidst pressure from activist groups for UK museums to end their oil sponsorship deals

National Gallery of Canada cites use of forced labour on royal estates in wartime

An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April

Free exhibition at the London museum in October will show around 150 works that have been collected since the early 1990s

Salvaging effort focuses on the remaining 80 percent of the archives of the Museum of Chinese in America

Radical revelopment of former train station building will make way for more Impressionist works and visitors

Institutions like the National Gallery of Art and the Guggenheim remain open but alert to potential for closing as confirmed cases of Covid-19 rise

Director Nicholas Cullinan and architect Jamie Fobert reveal how the gallery’s controversial three-year closure will transform its 600-year collection of portraits

Faults including a lack of transparency and a capricious programme have been cited following a change in management at the private museum

As museums remain on lockdown in China, we reveal the full extent of the crisis for both state and private institutions and their innovative short-term solutions

Private consortium offered $80m to turn former industrial area into Australia’s answer to Naoshima art island in Japan

Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure “visitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other”

British illustrator’s only known paintings—on front and back of the same canvas—will be displayed for the first time in new exhibition

Installation weaves a 400-year narrative with global and sometimes dark threads