But Hartwig Fischer stepping down is not linked to the alleged thefts, say fresh sources

The items include a piece of Roman jewellery—reportedly worth between £25,000 and £50,000—being offered with a minimum price of £40

His work will be made in collaboration with four institutions across the UK—from Northern Ireland to Scotland—before travelling to the capital

The Speed Outdoors, a public park and sculpture garden, aspires to become a focal point for the Louisville community

Higgs, who was sacked earlier this year, is alleged to have sold uncategorised items from the museum's collection on eBay as early as 2016

The spear, digging stick, cudgel and net were brought home by German missionaries nearly 200 years ago

The museum in London is reckoning with a huge security breach after admitting that jewellery and gems dating back millennia had been removed from its storeroom without detection

Six of the eight allegedly looted objects were donated to the museum by Emma C. Bunker, an associate of smuggler Douglas Latchford

According to the lawsuit, Aaron De Groft stood to benefit from the eventual sale of the fake Basquiats—and planned subsequent shows of works purportedly by Titian and Pollock

The Bay Area institution is increasing its ticket prices 20% just in time for a blockbuster Yayoi Kusama show

Municipal officials in Mesa have come under fire for postponing the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum's autumn shows

Former trader Christian Levett's rebranded institution will present works by Joan Mitchell, Howardena Pindell and Cecily Brown among others

More than 500 workers at the institutions will get raises over 12%

The woman was caught on video filling up her water bottle in the late Baroque masterpiece

Artists accuse the Russian Museum—which blames technical issues for the delay—of covering up parts of their works

The Menil Collection denies claims in an Italian police statement that 60 of the disputed artefacts were housed at the Texas museum

Sotheby's, which is the new owner of the Madison Avenue building, “will proudly act as stewards” of Charles Simonds’s tiny installation

A village in Brazil that was in use for around 500 years, until the 10th century, may have been laid out on a celestial schematic

Rowling has been scrubbed from the galleries of Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture

The museum has agreed to return the life-size marble statue “Wounded Indian” to the Boston-based Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

Authorities have reported 36 fatalities while heritage sites, including museums, have been destroyed

With 97% of the vote, museum employees signed their first union contract after two years at the bargaining table

The work and life partners converted a former furniture showroom into a venue for their complex, large-scale installations

The initiative, which initially was intended to award $10m total in grants, will now give out $15m for ecological projects at art non-profits

Responding to a comment piece by the author Simon Jenkins, former Tate curator Simon Wilson says that the institution’s collection is kept in environmentally controlled storage and is mostly made up of works on paper

Police confirm a man was stabbed close to the entrance on Tuesday morning

The London institution will now reinstate Yilin Wang's translations and is reviewing its permissions policy

A dig on Vancouver Island has revealed archaeological remnants of a 250-person fishing community

An open letter urges museum to follow net zero carbon pledge and fully separate from oil giant, which recently recorded $2.6bn in quarterly profit

Benefactor Emma Bunker worked closely with antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford