Museums & Heritage
A topsy-turvy world: five artworks that have been hung upside down by curators
From Mondrian to Rothko, when it comes to hanging a painting, museums don't always get things right first (or even second) time
New exhibition space! National Portrait Gallery buys former Victorian public lavatory
Museum in London acquired refurbished ticket kiosk site for £3m with funds from businessman Len Blavatnik
Do you want to be the girl with the pearl earring in Vermeer’s masterpiece?
Fans encouraged to send versions of the famous 17th-century painting for 'My Girl with a Pearl' initiative at The Mauritshuis
Hudson River School painter’s New York estate to undergo $25m, ecologically-minded revamp
Olana, the estate of Frederic Edwin Church, will receive a new, carbon-neutral visitor centre under a plan unveiled by New York Governor Kathy Hochul
Museums and heritage in 2022: industrial unrest, climate protests and damage to historic artefacts in Ukraine
New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany
Van Gogh in 2022: record prices, top shows and exciting discoveries
Plus, the best books on Vincent and the artist's booming immersive experiences
Canada’s National Portrait Gallery has no collection or physical space—but it does have ambitious plans
More than a decade after a previous attempt fizzled out, a new institution is on the prowl for prime real estate in Ottawa
Heritage protection foundation Aliph expands with office in Saudi Arabia
The Geneva-based International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is to open a second office in 2023 in Riyadh
Germany kicks off major Benin bronze restitution with return of 20 artefacts to Nigeria
The agreement—signed by the two countries in July—involves the return of 1,100 objects in total
'Unprecedented' in South Asia: India's leading private art museum forms transnational partnership with Bangladesh foundation
Collaboration between Samdani Art Foundation in Dhaka and Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art brings the institutions—and the powerful collectors behind them—closer together
Long-awaited International African American Museum delays January opening
The museum says humidity and temperature control issues must be addressed before it can open to the public
Collector cracks art heist cold case with a pillowcase and reverse Google image search
Decades after it was stolen from the Worcester Art Museum, collector Clifford Schorer spotted a missing Dutch Golden Age painting printed on a throw pillow
What can we learn from the Wellcome Collection's gallery closure backlash? What museums are really capable of
Professor Ken Arnold, co-curator of the Medicine Man display that was considered "racist, sexist and ableist", on the recent controversy
Cologne museum to transfer 92-strong Benin bronze collection back to Nigeria
The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum is the latest Western institution to return its collection of artefacts looted from Nigeria in the late-19th century
Police recover bulk of objects stolen in audacious £100m art heist from Dresden museum
Announcement was made during the trial of six men which began in January and is due to resume this week
Pope Francis returns Vatican Museums’ Parthenon marbles to Greece
The pope’s decision to give the Vatican’s three Parthenon marbles to the head of the Greek Orthodox Church comes amid mounting pressure on the British Museum to repatriate its marbles to Greece
London's National Portrait Gallery to reopen its doors in June 2023 after three-year closure
The refurbishment is backed by a raft of sponsors including British-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik and international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills
Princeton University Art Museum gifted abstract works by Richter, Frankenthaler, De Kooning and others
The donated works, from Princeton alumnus Preston Haskell, were accompanied by an unspecified sum to support ongoing construction of the museum’s new building, designed by Adjaye Associates
Philip Guston’s daughter donates 220 of his works and $10m to the Metropolitan Museum
Some of the works from the collection, which will go on view next year, are featured in the controversial traveling retrospective devoted to Guston
New York’s Museum of Sex will expand to Miami
The Manhattan institution, which has been exploring the erotic and sensual in art and beyond since 2002, will transform a warehouse in Miami’s Allapattah neighbourhood
Tate Britain's 'racist' colonial mural will go back on show with response from artist Keith Piper
The artist’s commission will bring a ‘new perspective’ to the painting, which has been off view since 2020
Art equity is still a long way off in US institutions, new study reveals
Extensive new research across 31 US museums reveals that works by female artists make up just 11% of acquisitions, while Black American artists of all genders account for only 6.3% of exhibitions
How to turn a flour mill into a world-class museum: architect Alejandro Aravena on his mammoth Qatar project
Chile-based practise Elemental is tasked with turning the former grain plant into an institution fit for Doha’s desert environment
England footballer Raheem Sterling launches art project with National Portrait Gallery
Works on self-identity will be shown at the revamped London gallery next year
The archaeological discovery of the century? What the San Casciano bronzes tell us about Roman and Etruscan life
The deposit of perfectly preserved statues in the heart of Tuscany reveals six centuries of cultural and political evolution
Michigan contemporary art museum will close permanently due to funding shortages exacerbated by the pandemic
The Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, which opened 45 years ago, will shutter for good in February 2023
Maxwell Alexandre forces Inhotim Institute in Brazil to remove his work, citing his ‘embarrassment’ over museum's treatment of Black subject matter
Large-scale paintings were featured without his knowledge in an exhibition at the vast contemporary art venue
First major dig in ancient Iraqi city since Isis destruction unearths ‘significant’ palace door sill
The artefact survived both Nimrud's decimation in 2016 and the fall of the Assyrian empire in the 7th century
Metropolitan Museum show to reunite two Van Gogh masterpieces after 120 years apart
A major exhibition next year will survey the artist’s fascination with the undulating trees
US campaign group sues Smithsonian over return of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
Restitution Study Group have lost their first legal battle but insist the case is still pending