Researchers believe that humans may have walked across the sea from Wales during the last Ice Age and made art

The Buenos Aires museum has selected the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to lead its ambitious build-out

Abdul Latif Hashim and Haneen Al-Amassi have been awarded the $40,000 Unesco/Jikji Memory of the World Prize

The Molino de Aliaga, the Peruvian capital’s earliest colonial structure discovered to date, was built by the Spanish conquistador Jerónimo de Aliaga in the 16th century

The members-only organisation will open during Accra Cultural Week in October

Philippe Bodenmann has gifted his entire collection—including pieces by Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and Max Bill—to the Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds

Five teams of designers, featuring architects and landscape designers, will compete for the project, expected to be completed by 2030

A installation developed by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and a microbes museum in the city’s zoo will depict microbes found in the Old Master painting

There are few controls over how mayors spend the Overnight Visitor Levy income, according to plans announced earlier this week

A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show

The steadfast historian leaves the institution after 38 years, the past couple of them marred by political tensions with the Trump administration

The legendary photographer spent nine months documenting the cleanup in Lower Manhattan to complete his series “Aftermath”, which is currently on view at Florida’s NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

Institution at the University of Oxford will return 39 pieces of remains, primarily skulls, to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent by the end of the year

The British Museum has agreed to loan two marble fragments to the Liebieghaus exhibition, which recreates the east pediment of the temple for the first time

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The works—mostly by Greek artists—will go to the National Gallery of Greece in Athens, Momus-Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete and National Galleries Scotland in Edinburgh

David Chipperfield has converted Banco Santander’s former headquarters into Faro Santander, a new home for works by artists including Velásquez, Titian, Goya, Picasso and Sorolla

To mark her 45th birthday, the pop music superstar and art collector gave generously to the revered New York City museum

Through the new partnership, the museum is already in the process of returning five artefacts from a private collection to Ethiopian authorities

The National Service for Cultural Heritage financed the project at Casa Mouat in Valparaíso, Chile

Treasure trove comprises 700 10th-century objects and fragments, weighing almost 18.5kg

The work is on loan to the exhibition ‘Rembrandt 1632: The Creation of a Brand’ at the Ducal Museum Gotha

During Stephan Jost’s tenure, the leading art museum in Toronto has launched construction of a new contemporary art gallery, added more than 18,000 pieces to its collection and navigated plenty of drama

Visitors to the architect Victor Horta’s home can see the restoration in progress

After the museum laid off almost half its staff over the summer, its main campus was shut down and employees are calling for the removal of its director

A chorus of Jewish community leaders, donors, politicians and others criticised the Met’s decision to honour Galliano in light of a 2011 conviction for an antisemitic hate crime

In 2023, when he was mayor of greater Manchester, Burnham had expressed unequivocal support for returning the Parthenon Marbles with ‘no strings’ attached

A criminal court in Hamburg has ordered the confiscation of €32m in sales proceeds from Serop Simonian’s children, who plan to appeal their conviction

Museum leadership said the partnership would end on 31 August ‘at the end of its agreed term’

Authorities are searching for two unmasked men who bought tickets to the Museum of Applied Arts, smashed a display case, snatched the valuable necklace and walked out