Museums & Heritage
Looted Asante treasures find a new palace home in Ghana
Objects from the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum are on loan to the Asante king, while the Fowler Museum has transferred ownership of seven items
Artists shine a light on historic Black communities in Texas
Art projects in Dallas and Houston are looking to preserve what is left of neglected ‘freedmen’s towns’ created by formerly enslaved African Americans
A storied public art collection in California makes space for emerging artists
The Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego is launching an emerging artist programme with a trio of new commissions
France’s leading arts PR firm Claudine Colin Communication acquired by Finn Partners
Founder Claudine Colin says she made the decision to secure the future of the communications company and to promote its development
Lacma accused of showing counterfeit Korean works
A panel of Korean art experts have deemed four pieces displayed in a recent exhibition to be fakes
How Indian PM Narendra Modi’s weaponising of heritage backfired in Ayodhya
The politician lost the Faizabad constituency in which he built the controversial Ram temple
Workers allege redundancies at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts are related to Palestine solidarity actions
The institution has made around ten redundancies due to budget cuts, but former staffers claim their dismissals have to do with the response to the war in Gaza
Oldest example of figurative art found in Indonesian cave
The picture depicting a wild pig and a trio of human figures dates from 51,000 years ago, according to researchers, and suggests that Europe was not the birthplace of cave art
British Museum’s historic Reading Room opens to the public after 11 years
The space, once used by the likes of Karl Marx, is finally available for all visitors to the London institution to see
State lawmakers pull funding for New Jersey's Centre Pompidou outpost
The mayor of Jersey City says the move to scuttle the Paris museum's first US location was politically motivated
Street behind Tate Modern closed after glass panels fall from building
Window panes from the Neo Bankside development, whose residents forced the museum to restrict access to its viewing gallery, smashed into the street
Salisbury Cathedral conservation offers window into William Morris’s workshop
Edward Burne-Jones’s stained-glass work has been removed for conservation for the first time
Getty’s PST Art initiative goes green for science-centric edition
As it prepares for its next Southern California-wide programme launching in September, the Getty is supporting participants’ efforts to reduce their environmental impacts
Belém adds two new museums as the Brazilian city prepares to host Cop30
The Centro Cultural Bienal das Amazônias and Museu das Amazônias join the cultural scene of Brazil's gateway city to the Amazon
Simple steps art museums can take to drive sustainability
Reducing the art sector’s ecological footprint can seem daunting, but art institutions can implement these two impactful changes with relative ease
Amid deaccessioning scandal and falling enrollment, Valparaiso University shuts down campus museum
The university’s plans to sell off works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam and Frederic Church prompted a lawsuit and appeals to Indiana state officials
After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname
The 75ft-long sauropod fossil will go on prominent display when the museum’s new entry pavilion opens this autumn
Cancelling Kehinde Wiley shows ‘does a disservice to the audiences’, anti-censorship group claims
The National Coalition Against Censorship is calling out museum leaders in Miami, Minneapolis and Omaha that cancelled or postponed Wiley’s exhibitions following sexual-assault allegations against him
Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs
Albert Stern, the former owner, sold the painting “out of necessity” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Dutch Restitutions Committee says
Caravaggio the cultural diplomat: Belfast hosts double loan from London and Dublin
The lending of ‘The Supper at Emmaus’ by the National Gallery, under the National Treasures scheme, and ‘The Taking of Christ’, by the National Gallery of Ireland and Jesuit Fathers, is hailed as “north-south-east-west” moment
Welcome to the slow museum, where less is more
In an effort to deepen existing programming and community engagement, some institutions are choosing to stage fewer exhibitions
Legal challenge to preserve Toronto's Ontario Place rejected as mega-spa project moves forward
In addition, it was discovered that the provincial government agreed to pay almost C$1m to make its controversial case for moving the Ontario Science Centre, which closed permanently Friday due to structural decay
MFA Boston director Matthew Teitelbaum will retire after ten-year stint
Teitelbaum has navigated one of the US’s most prominent art museums through a decade of renovations, revamped education initiatives, scandals and shutdowns
UK export bar placed on Louis XIV’s £7.5m table top
The decision was made in the hope that a buyer can be found to “save the” object “for the nation”
Walker Art Center invites visitors to reimagine its galleries
The Minneapolis institution has crowdsourced its rehang—which means a lot more than just new configurations of works
Judge dismisses Holocaust restitution claim to Guggenheim’s Blue Period Picasso
Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs had claimed that “La repasseuse” (1904) had been sold under duress as the couple fled Nazi persecution
Two eco-activists arrested after Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder
The ancient site remains open as curators investigate the damage
Monet to go on sale after Kunsthaus Zurich reaches settlement with Jewish heirs
The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939
Conservation experts deploying to Lahaina, Hawaii, to support recovery from 2023 wildfires
Thanks to a grant of almost $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two experts will travel to Maui to assist affected museums and historic sites
Art Institute of Chicago to return 12th-century temple artefact to Thailand
The Krishna palister once stood along the doorframe of the most important monument to the Khmer dynasty in Thailand