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

The new film, “Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]”, follows one campaign in Michigan and foreshadows many more

The US president has set his sights on transforming the city of Washington, DC, to fit his grandiose aesthetic

Nederlands Fotomuseum has appointed a new director ahead of reopening in a former coffee warehouse on 7 February

Hire of former National Galleries of Scotland curator is part of museum's expansion of its collection into the 20th and 21st centuries

French civil servant joins the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi as it prepares to move to a vast new complex

The layoffs amount to a reduction of the museum’s staff by around 6.3% and include 16 unionised workers

Targeted attacks on electric and water supplies amid freezing conditions are further complicating the work of cultural organisations

The new Commission for Historically Problematic Cultural Heritage—whose remit also includes claims for cultural heritage that changed hands in a colonial context—will issue non-binding recommendations

Long-haul conservation project contrasts with the speed of neighbour Notre-Dame’s repair after the 2019 fire

Recent discoveries have renewed archaeologists’ concerns that a shipwreck-salvage company has exclusive rights to artefacts aboard a sunken 1715 fleet

Housed in a huge former Citroën garage, the space will be home to modern and contemporary art, including loans from the French museum

Following Rodrigo Moura’s departure, the Buenos Aires museum will create a new chief executive position

With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether