The museum has also stated that 300 further items are “due to be returned imminently”, and that it has enlisted an international taskforce

The new works replace those depicting Confederate generals that were removed in 2017

The legal case seeking to block the art museum's new $180m Herzog & de Meuron-designed building is ongoing

The new spaces will bring together treasures by some of Scotland's best-loved artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Royal Collection curators checked provenance records and pigments, tracing the work to Queen Henrietta Maria

The Kiah house will be restored to its former glory, highlighting African American art, and providing housing to local artists

All but one of the 14 historic sites the Lahaina Restoration Foundation owned or managed was critically damaged in the deadly fires

The repatriation ceremony at the San Bernardino County Museum was timed to coincide with the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month in the US and Mexican Independence Day

Investigations into the extent of the damage to historic buildings and artefacts have begun, while experts warn it is critical to find long-term solutions to counter the rising threat of climate change

Plus, remembering Fernando Botero and a pioneering Barkley L. Hendricks portrait

The delicately carved choker necklace was found during excavations for the Maya Train project in the Yucatán Peninsula

The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on

The Zeyrek Çinili Hamam, which will open in Istanbul in September after a 13-year restoration and excavation, will operate once again as a traditional Turkish bath and also as a contemporary art space

Eight Brooklyn-based arts non-profits will each receive $25,000 and ten months of workshops and other sessions

The dismissal of Michael Bennett, a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in St Petersburg, came after colleagues at another institution raised flags about provenance gaps

The UK county faces pressure to find £86m in savings

The UN cultural body is requesting modifications to the controversial scheme, which will see a dual-carriageway tunnel running close to the ancient heritage site by next year

Cooperation agreement follows Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy strategy to forge closer ties with Iran

As the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory in Buenos Aires gains international recognition, the history it seeks to safeguard is under attack by Argentina’s extremist frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election

Glacial progress being made on reopening the magnificent domed space at the heart of the institution

Church walking tours, online talks and light art installations in St Paul's Cathedral are some of the events being held to celebrate the work of Britain's most celebrated architect

The top prize of £110,000 will go to an exhibition that will take place in the next three years, with £30,000 awarded directly to the winning artist

Artists, poets and writers will also respond to statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass following the introduction of the UK's "retain and explain" policy

The committee voted to protect ancient sites in China, Iran, the West Bank and along the historic Silk Road, but Venice was not included

The group, brought in by UK housing secretary Michael Gove, will oversee the council's accounts following the announcement earlier in September that it was facing serious financial difficulties

The celebratory event marked a major milestone in a process begun in 2004; the new building is expected to be complete in 2028

Organisers, speakers and curators see the most diverse festival to date as a chance to demonstrate that art history is central to education and to reading the signals of modern life

After a protest in front of the museum’s main entrance, 16 activists were arrested after further actions inside the museum

Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the historic centre of Lviv join Odesa on Unesco’s endangered list

Seized in a violent raid in 2020, returned in a blue Ikea bag—now being bought back from the insurer