The works—including pieces by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder, T.C. Cannon and others—were donated by the chair of the museum’s board of trustees and her husband
The area, known as a “graveyard of the Atlantic”, is the site of thousands of shipwrecks waiting to be discovered
The letter's signatories have criticised the Barbican's communication around Devyani Saltzman's departure
The commission’s members also opted to forego a later vote on the final stage of the design despite public comments on the project being “overwhelmingly in opposition—over 99%”
The repatriation, from a private collection in Detroit, is the largest of its kind in Brazil’s history
The annual event, now in its 36th edition, connects younger generations to the energetic and deeply symbolic Indigenous performance art
Saltzman’s departure caps a turbulent time for the London institution
Administration officials discussed adding multiple images of Trump to the “America’s Presidents” exhibition, and a second official portrait of the sitting president, even though the first has never gone on view
The alleged scheme was revealed by Paris prosecutors on the same day as reports emerged of a leak damaging a work in the museum’s Italian paintings gallery
The Italian curator and critic Eugenio Viola, who has led the museum since 2019, says he was let go after raising concerns about working conditions at the institution
The institution is offering a “voluntary exit scheme” for all employees and will be reducing its activities
The new mayor of Jersey City, James Solomon, said a long-planned outpost of the French museum is no longer happening
The artist was approached about including his seminal work in an exhibition at the University of Maryland’s Driskell Center, but ultimately it was not featured; he and the curators disagree on the reasons why
The archaeological museum in northeast Syria—which was out of sight of many local residents until late 2024—is opening 24 years after construction on it began
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has called it ”the most important archaeological finding of the last decade”
The gifted works come from the estate of longtime supporter Jan Petry and the collection of Los Angeles-based scholar Gordon W. Bailey
Wimpfheimer has worked at the institution since 2002, most recently as deputy director to Sally Tallant, who is London-bound
The post-war arts complex has been Grade II listed but one critic has responded by calling it a “concrete monstrosity”
The space in Kensington has relaunched with a continued focus on both international strategies of resistance and its local community
One of the sculptures will remain on long-term display at the Washington, DC, museum
The organisation has also launched a special programme for the semiquincentennial of the US's founding
Ninawa Huni Kui has spoken out ahead of a show focused on the threatened Brazilian ecosystem of the Pantanal
The Baroque master’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”, which sold at auction for €865,500 in 2014, will go on display in Washington, DC, later this month
The institution will also overhaul its committee structure in response to the scandal
From audio-tape portraits to the mother-daughter relationship, we share some must-see shows
The court-ordered raid has resulted in the relocation of nearly 300 works of art, part of the nation’s premier colonial collection
After building a museum, memorial and sculpture park, the Equal Justice Initiative opens a new site celebrating Civil Rights Era resistance in Montgomery
Visitors to Rome will now pay to access the famous fountain and five other historic monuments
The vision and name for the new institution, opening in the AlUla culture and heritage site in northwest Saudi Arabia, were revealed on 1 February
The exhibition at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes traces the 99-year-old Mexican artist’s unique and dynamic approach to the human figure and highlights her work as a cultural organiser