We spoke to cultural historians, former ministers and museum directors about the changes they hope to see for the culture sector—and crucially, who they will vote for

Demonstrators took over the lobby and exterior of the museum on Friday afternoon, calling for transparency and divestment regarding financial ties to Israel

Local authorities respond that mummy deterioration is not new and even inevitable given a history of visitors “touching them or taking souvenirs, such as bits of clothing”

Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard

Online sessions will be led by artists such as Sutapa Biswas and Sarah Dwyer

The Palmer Museum of Art in the city of State College, Pennsylvania, has nearly doubled its space

A blockbuster show focused on Turner and Constable plus a vast survey of Nigerian modernism are also in the pipeline

The two-foot-tall artefact, which hails from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, will remain on view in Cleveland for "a few years"

In the past month, record rainfall has wreaked havoc on the state of Rio Grande do Sul

Madonna may have tried on Kahlo's clothes during a previous visit to her family home

Lawrence Wong has shown signals that he intends to support arts-related initiatives with significant funding, though entrenched societal attitudes mean concerns about censorship remain

MPs have joined a campaign to stop the museums group from derecognising two of its three unions

Kate Casprowiak Scher, the Bellevue Arts Museum’s new permanent director, explains that candour about the institution’s finances helped bring the kunsthalle in suburban Seattle back from the brink

The museum will vacate its historic premises on Park Avenue South this autumn

The 19th-century property, where the Italian composer wrote 'La Traviata', was due to be auctioned, but the sale never happened

It appears the museum’s own employees were unaware of the policy that “parents are free to nurse children wherever”

Elias Sime and Meskerem Assegued are due to open their biggest building project so far—a cultural centre in the mountains—this autumn

Mass layoffs at the national library and the defunding of a critical film institute are just the beginning, the administration has promised

In a time of increased lawsuits over diversity initiatives, a civil rights organisation aims to make the history and legacy of slavery in the US undeniable through art and first-person narratives

Mining magnate asked National Gallery of Australia to remove depiction by Aboriginal artist Vincent Namatjira

Visual-art projects receiving support include a new Agnes Denes work in California, a Duane Linklater commission in New York and a public collaboration to help heal Indigenous generational trauma in Alaska

The tiles decorated the bathing pavilion of Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw before they disappeared during the Second World War

In the reopened galleries, rotating exhibits highlight collection gems—including seven newly conserved Buddha statues—and technology add-ons expand learning

Since its founding in 2003, the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art has assembled a collection of around 35,000 objects

A bracelet and torc dating back thousands of years were taken from Cambridgeshire’s Ely Museum last week, shining a light on underfunding and its potential impact on security

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi posted a call out on social media offering to send out works from his Barjeel Art Foundation on long-term loan

Nearly 50 workers have signed a petition raising doubts over safety in what is the first ever class action against the Vatican

Lorenzo Prendini says his permits to transport the specimens out of Turkey were ignored by police

Roland Rudd is on the lookout for new donors for the London institution

Members of Just Stop Oil tried to smash the case housing the historic document at the British Library