The additional staff will programme sound art, film and performance events

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts cooperated in an investigation that determined each of the 44 objects had been stolen, looted or trafficked

Following the British model, entry will be free for the newly expanded institution

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office linked one of the works to Kapoor; another had been in the Rubin Museum’s collection

The war in Gaza casts a dark shadow over 2023

From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”

A local non-profit is looking into possible sites near Haulover Beach Park, one of the only clothing-optional beaches in Florida

The Royal Collection Trust, which runs the museums in London and Edinburgh, declines to give further details on change of heart

Velázquez masterpiece required 'conservation treatment to minor damage sustained to the painting surface, and the fitting of new glazing' following hammer attack on 6 November

From major solo shows of Sasha Gordon, Nam June Paik and Juan Francisco Elso to exhibitions around themes of food, magic and mystical animals

Federal investigators found that the six-page manuscript at the Rosenbach Museum and Library had been illegally removed from a larger volume

Petrit Halilaj, Lee Bul and Tong Yang-Tze have been chosen to complete new projects at one of the most visited museums in the US

Wanda Nanibush's departure has been linked to a leaked letter accusing her of “posting inflammatory, inaccurate rants against Israel”

Restored to its former glory, the 200kg automaton is now on show at the Buckingham mansion

Plus, the life and work of the pioneering Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, and a revealing manuscript by Paul Gauguin

The couple will also donate select (as yet unspecified) pieces from their personal holdings to the museum

The ancient objects were on loan to a Dutch museum from Russia-occupied Crimea before the Black Sea peninsula was annexed

The museum recently reopened following a $230m renovation and expansion

Fifteen years since Iceland’s banking crisis, funding cuts have left the nation’s art in a state of potential peril

Film screening and poetry night were pulled over concerns they may be seen as "political activity"

Plus, a new antisemitism scandal at Documenta and a Kim Lim sculpure on show at the Hepworth Wakefield

The Moroccan cultural sector has been hard at work to help the communities hit hardest by the disaster and trying to remind people that "this is still going on"

The decision comes after the chairman of the UK institution reiterated his desire to reach an agreement with Greece over the Parthenon Marbles

Ranging from painting to installation and beyond, the latest additions to the museum's holdings include contemporary voices as well as legends like Nam June Paik and Robert Irwin

Additions to the museum’s collection span contemporary, decorative and Modern art, as well as Korean calligraphy and works on paper by John Singer Sargent’s sister Emily

Following a county judge’s ruling in favour of Valparaiso University, both sides are making their case to Indiana’s attorney general

According to research, Elagabalus asked to be called "lady" and preferred other feminine addresses

Activists with Extinction Rebellion staged protests inside the Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Natural History

Mariët Westermann, the first woman to take a leadership role of this magnitude with the museum, will oversee the expansion of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi

The Seattle Art Museum’s gift of more than 45 works from collectors Jon and Kim Shirley makes for a compelling performance