The 350-year-old artifact is one of seven objects returned to the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Native American tribe

The private donation becomes the largest the museum has received to date

While other UK institutions continue to struggle, the British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figures survey has revealed

Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins opens on 22 March, at a time of significant growth in Lisbon’s art scene

The new exhibition space, Austria’s first centre for photographic images and lens-based media, will open on 21 March

From $200m to upwards of $1bn, the estimated value of the 13 works stolen in Boston on 18 March 1990 has varied in the decades since

Thomas Trotta was part of a theft ring that nabbed a variety of items, including sports memorabilia and gold nuggets, from museums on the East Coast of the US over two decades

The UK institution is slashing 7% of its workforce as "real-terms decline" in public funds and declining visitor numbers continue to bite

The RA says that up to 60 jobs are a risk of redundancy—but the union claims the true figure is almost 100

What’s behind the new, more measurement approaches to programming at museums, art fairs and more? Plus, a chat about current tensions around culture in the Netherlands and a close look at one of the most famous depictions of a wintery landscape

The notorious death camp, in which hundreds of thousands perished, is only now getting a proper museum space to ensure the dark chapter in Europe’s history is not forgotten

The list of buildings, briefly posted on the General Services Administration website, included 443 properties, many with cultural and historic significance

Four works by artist Christoforos Katsadiotis were vandalised earlier this week, The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens confirmed

Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project supported by Chanel

The anonymous gift allows the museum to continue commissioning performance-art projects and expand efforts to collect and archive performances

The London institution had a false start as a museum, but is now thriving with its winning combination of hosting temporary exhibitions and art fairs, and renting studio spaces to creatives

The San Antonio Missions National Historic Park's headquarters are central to the management of five 18th-century missions in and around the city

The de Young Museum, Legion of Honor and Asian Art Museum may let go of 20% of their security personnel

La Cuadra San Cristobal, a complex on Mexico City’s outskirts, soft-launched with a project by Marina Abramović

Specialists at London's Wallace Collection have attributed an 18th-century work to Bernardo Bellotto, who would then have been aged just 15 or 16

Political uncertainties may be deterring organisations from funding the €260m worth of restoration work needed to repair and rebuild the Gaza Strip’s wrecked historical sites, but emergency interventions are already underway

The ancient statue, a museum fixture since the 1990s, will return to its rightful home following a voluntary restitution

The report also describes the idea of charging international visitors as “logistically complex”

The news follows fears that the university’s bicentenary plans would force the museum’s collection into storage—though concerns remain over its long-term future

The announcement of new providers for services at leading cultural institutions has prompted an outcry from workers and opposition politicians

The move reflects an increased focus on Indigenous art practices in museums around the world

As the Moscow institution is temporarily closed and its director, Roman Romanov, is dismissed, fears grow that Russia’s past is being glossed over

The Washington, DC institution had been due to open exhibitions about queer identity and the African diaspora in the Americas this month

The Art Newspaper took a tour of this treasure-stuffed colossus and was impressed by its gargantuan scale and coherent layout

Amid colourful ceremonies, Chau Chak Wing Museum returned 16 human skulls to the inhabitants of six villages