Leading artists and museum professionals raise fears as violence erupts in Khartoum

Questions resurface over New York museum’s rationale for consigning works by the artist to auction

Members of the museum’s union, who have been in negotiations with administration over their first contract for more than a year, handed out leaflets to attendees arriving for the annual Artists Ball

Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

The move may complicate plans to house the works in future museums such as the Edo Museum of West African Art

Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany

Art found by chance in Old Dongola shows King David of Makuria kissing the hand of Jesus, a remarkable example of Christian art now threatened by unfolding violence in Sudan

Indiana-based Valparaiso University is reportedly hoping to raise $20m with the sale of works by O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam and Frederic Church from its museum’s collection

The museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend provides a major boost to its holdings

Seven dedicated galleries will now exhibit the full range and depth of the museum world’s oldest photography collection

The agency's grants will support a range of arts and heritage initiatives, including major exhibition projects at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Building Museum and elsewhere

The Brooklyn Museum maintains two rooftop beehives, and several more New York museums are joining the apiculture craze

The institution will reopen in its historic mansion, which is undergoing a $160m renovation, by the end of 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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