Museums & Heritage

Riddle of ancient Egypt’s ‘impossible’ sculpture is finally solved—in Scotland

Pioneering research by a National Museums of Scotland curator finds statue reflects a village of eminent tomb-makers

Dusseldorf settles with Jewish dealer’s heirs on portrait that hung in mayor's office

Wilhelm von Schadow’s painting 'The Artist’s Children' was once owned by Max Stern, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s

Dallas Museum of Art acquires 12 works at Dallas Art Fair with annual gift

The museum spent $100,000 to bolster its collection thanks to funding from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation

Brazil’s Red List gives green light to federal action on heritage smuggling

President Lula’s government has joined forces with Icom in an effort to halt illegal trafficking of the country’s ancient artefacts

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Now is the time to honour not censor Russia’s dissident artists

The director of the Zimmerli Art Museum, which is home to the world's foremost collection of Soviet nonconformist art, says recent calls to censor all Russian art in light of the war in Ukraine oversimplify the issue

Back after 2,000 years: the Roman gateway to Britain

The Richborough fort in Kent, the base for the Roman invasion of Britain in 43AD, reopens to the public

Former Art Institute of Chicago employee pleads guilty to embezzling $2m from the museum

Michael Maurello may face up to 20 years in prison for his financial misdeeds at the museum

Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Arts closes permanently despite last-minute fundraising effort

The New Mexico institution, established in 1979, has shut its doors, seemingly forever

Milan authorities must hire conservationist after struggling to clean statue damaged by climate activists

Italian officials have approved draft bill to bring in tougher sanctions for protestors who target heritage

Florida’s Norton Museum acquires John Singer Sargent portrait of socialite who sponsored Amelia Earhart

Sargent’s painting of Amy Phipps Guest, made at the peak of his success as a society portraitist, was gifted to the West Palm Beach museum by her grandson and his family

Nigeria’s hotly-anticipated Edo Museum of West African Art: newly appointed curator Aindrea Emelife discusses her plans

Scholar discusses restitution issue, saying that "no culture has an absolute view on looking at the world"

San Francisco curator details three previously unattributed Botticelli drawings

Research for a forthcoming exhibition at the Legion of Honor museum has led a curator to add three new entries to Botticelli's oeuvre

British Museum returns Oceanic sculpture to Polynesia—for three years

Admired by Henry Moore and Picasso, A'a has just gone on show at Tahiti's main museum

The Metropolitan Museum’s great hall to be transformed by kaleidoscopic Jacolby Satterwhite video installation

The artist has been commissioned to create a work for the museum’s main entryway that will incorporate 3D scans of more than 100 objects in the Met’s collection

Pro-Putin Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky speaks out again in support of war in Ukraine

The veteran Russian museum chief tells Kremlin newspaper that war is “a means of cultural exchange”

'We need to act fast': experts race to preserve Afghanistan's ancient Buddhist heritage site Mes Aynak from copper mining

Taliban government has backed a new conservation project led by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Aliph

Arthur Jafa creating permanent work for Glenstone

The US artist best known for his powerful moving image works has “something very special” in store for the Maryland museum, its co-founder revealed on a recent podcast

Important portrait painting missing for more than 60 years is returned to Montana university

The Montana Museum of Art and Culture has been reunited with an important Impressionist portrait

Unesco chief vows to help rebuild Ukraine’s heritage and culture—but $6.9bn investment is needed

Audrey Azoulay met President Zelensky and toured sites in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Odesa during an official visit to the country this week

Strike at New York’s Hispanic Society enters second week as museum pushes back long-planned reopening

Unionised workers at the institution in Upper Manhattan have been on strike since 27 March as negotiations over their first contract have stalled

A series of recent lawsuits could change the way UK museums acquire works for their collections

Disputed attribution claims rarely play out in court, but two recent legal cases could provide valuable lessons for acquisitions teams at cultural institutions across the UK

Seattle Art Museum receives 48 Calder works and $10m from former Microsoft president and his wife

The trove of works from Jon and Kim Shirley includes many mobiles and stabiles, and comes with a commitment to fund ongoing programming on the artist

Brutal demand for change: Steve McQueen's Grenfell Tower film at the Serpentine

Weeks after a fire took the lives of 72 people, the British artist, who was born nearby, shot the ruin of the 24-storey tower from a circling helicopter

Bonhams closes gender pay gap by 39%, but Sotheby’s and Christie’s lag behind

UK’s public institutions continue to provide a greater degree of equity—though this is not even across all pay brackets

Italy to open new mafia museum—complete with smells and sounds

The first site in Palermo is scheduled to open this spring

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Italy plans high-speed train between Pompeii and Rome to increase tourism to heritage sites

The €35m development will include a new train station adjacent to the Pompeii archaeological site

Antiquities trafficking investigator appointed president of Harvard Law Review—a position once held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama

Apsara Iyer says looting of Indian temples was a "wake-up call" to understanding how cultural heritage and crime intersect

The late conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn would not want you to read this article

The curators of his first US museum survey will not talk about the show, honouring his wishes not to interpret his artwork

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‘You can’t pay rent with prestige’: as contract negotiations drag on, unionised Guggenheim workers rally at exhibition openings

As museum members and supporters waited to enter opening celebrations for Gego and Sarah Sze shows, they were greeted by members of UAW Local 2110