Museums & Heritage
Secrets of Caravaggio’s last masterpiece revealed in new London show
The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula painting will take centre stage in a forthcoming show at the National Gallery
Not-so-new kid on the block: Pinterest moves in on museums
The platform is making use of its reputation as a visual search engine to collaborate with art institutions
Velázquez-inspired sculptures spark outrage in Venice
Local heritage group decries the "biennialisation of the city" after gallery paid a fee to stage the Manolo Valdés installation
Florida museum receives gift of nearly 700 prints, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore
The Norton Museum of Art’s holdings of prints have increased by almost 40% thanks to a massive gift from the real-estate developer Jonathan “Jack” Frost
Art Institute of Chicago fights for possession of Egon Schiele portrait
Civil action for return of looted Schiele painting dismissed but criminal case looms
The Broad museum in Los Angeles reveals $100m expansion plans
The institution has re-enlisted the architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro to create a new wing that will expand its gallery space by 70%
British Museum’s legal action over thefts is ‘locking the stable door after the horse has bolted’, experts say
The museum's former acting head of the Greece and Rome department, Peter Higgs, is facing legal action after being accused of stealing up to 2,000 objects
Swiss dealer Eberhard Kornfeld bequeathed Kirchner, Giacometti works to Bern Kunstmuseum
Kornfeld died last year, shortly before turning 100
A major squawk-ing point: Māori parrot-feather cloak set to be star exhibit at Perth Museum
Following painstaking conservation, the delicate piece will go on show at the Scottish museum in its newly opened building, a £27m conversion of the Edwardian former city hall
Mass Moca employees end three-week strike following dispute over wages
Unionised workers and museum officials have ratified a new deal that raises staff minimum wages to $18 per hour
Art Gallery of Ontario closes as more than 400 workers go on strike
The strike comes after a breakdown in negotiations between the workers’ union and museum administrators, and as the institution pursues a C$100m expansion
Leading Ukrainian art academy devastated by Russian air strike
The Mykhailo Boichuk Kyiv State Academy of Decorative Applied Arts and Design reportedly sustained serious damage from falling fragments of a missile
New York museum's former chief financial officer claims in lawsuit she was fired for raising concerns about director’s expenses
Denise Lewis claims she was fired “without cause or warning” after she complained about the Museum of Arts and Design's director's alleged use of the institution’s funds for personal expenses during a vacation in Mexico
New Hong Kong: how the city aims to stay a global art hub
The SAR is riding out economic and political challenges with more buyers, bigger galleries and serious art
‘We remember who we are through culture’
M+ Museum Director Suhanya Raffel on Hong Kong’s first international cultural summit and why it matters
Hong Kong arts hub West Kowloon Cultural District opens summit with raft of global agreements
Digital challenges and the social and economic changes sparked by cultural transformation are among issues aired
Protestors at London Science Museum rally against ‘greenwashing’ new sponsor
The museum has received backlash for its decision to allow Adani Green Energy to sponsor a new gallery focused on climate change
‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt
A two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts
Jewish history museum in Philadelphia would become part of Smithsonian under proposed legislation
A new bill could create a commission to assess the feasibility of adding the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History to the Smithsonian family
Archaeologists in Brazil find petroglyphs alongside dinosaur tracks
No, this does not mean dinosaurs and humans lived there at the same time
New Wedgwood book traces author's intimate discovery of 18th-century Britain
The “experimental biography” offers fresh perspectives on the celebrated potter
The 2024 Whitney Biennial in five key themes
The Whitney Museum’s flagship contemporary art showcase turns on questions of identity, authenticity and mutability, which play out across more than a handful of interrelated topics
Warhol Museum director Patrick Moore stepping down
The president and chief executive of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, which operates the Warhol Museum, insists that the move is not a result of recent controversies
Denver Art Museum to return 11 artefacts connected to smuggler Douglas Latchford
The repatriations to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia come as the museum continues to distance itself from Latchford and his late collaborator Emma C. Bunker
Trio of disputed Rubens paintings must stay in the UK, parliamentary panel rules
Heirs of the German banker Franz Koenigs claim the works housed at the Courtauld Gallery should be restituted
Lost building discovered in Sicily’s ancient Valley of the Temples
Archaeologists working at a Unesco World Heritage site in Agrigento have revealed the remains of a previously unknown building
Developer’s $325m gift will help create new museum in Seattle
Richard Hedreen is donating a collection valued at $300m and $25m cash to create an art museum at Seattle University
Redevelopment of Modernist complex on Toronto waterfront alarms residents and preservationists
The provincial government passed legislation to push through a controversial, publicly funded development of Ontario Place
How the US’s Black cemeteries are being made visible once more
A cemetery hidden under a Florida air base is the latest African American burial site rediscovered following decades of erasure