The historic documents “highlight the complexities of documenting America’s ‘peculiar institution’”

Museum at the University of Pennsylvania will open 10,000 sq. ft of reimagined spaces

Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders

Opera sets will evoke the museum’s collection, and soloists will perform at the museum

From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all

State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka

When it comes to having a historian rummaging in their stores, smaller institutions tend to be more enthusiastic and accommodating

In this 1994 interview, he reveals how he likes art to be displayed, such as natural lighting for Impressionists

Dream museum of collectors Basil and Elise Goulandris brought to life almost three decades after original proposal

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