The funds are part of a $159m bond local voters approved in the 8 November US midterm election to benefit local cultural organisations

Twenty-one museums across the city will be free during the inaugural San Francisco Free Museum Weekend on 3-4 December

The artefacts, found at ancient Roman baths, are among the most “significant bronzes ever produced in the history of the ancient Mediterranean”

In speech at the annual trustees dinner George Osborne said that "dismantling" the collection "must not become the careless act of a single generation”

The ruling of the examining chamber, expected next year, could overturn the investigation against both curators in a case implicating the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Metropolitan Museum

Goya works at the Prado and a Van Gogh painting in Rome were recently targeted

American institutions have catalogued 208,698 entries since the law went into effect in 1990—but less than half of those holdings have been repatriated

Culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano criticises museum for not opening on the Monday before All Saints Day but director Eike Schmidt says government must step in to find "reinforcements"

As the latest UN Climate Change Conference opens in Egypt, art institutions have yet to take the climate lessons to heart

“We’ve had to make invidious choices”, says Arts Council England’s chair, Nicholas Serota, as funding portfolio for 2023-26 announced

The work, housed at The Hague's Museum Bredius, will now undergo further study by Rijksmuseum experts

Plus, contemporary art in Lagos and Chagall's falling angel

The 16th-century mask was withdrawn from sale at Sotheby’s over a decade ago amid escalating calls for restitution

Timothy Sainsbury says he disagrees with the view that all of the functional parts of the building should be "preserved in aspic"

The Greek state is now the sole owner of the artefacts but all 161 pieces will be on a 25-year loan to the Met from January 2024

The decision to prioritise the revamp of the museum’s Greek and Assyrian displays comes amid escalating calls for the permanent return of the Parthenon sculptures to Athens

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Climate Museum’s pop-up exhibition in Manhattan hopes to spur visitors to action, and raise money for a long-term venue

The ruling culminates an extensive investigation into a smuggling ring headed by Kapoor

Ancient remains are best preserved in oceans, ice patches and wetlands—which are at risk of rising temperatures

The programme's launch follows the recent acquisition of a painting by 16th-century Mannerist Lavinia Fontana and a polychrome statue by 17th-century sculptor Luisa Roldán

The institution is scheduled to open in summer 2023 inside the oldest building in Vancouver’s Chinatown

Following the death of Mahsa Amini in September, the museum and art world have been called on to address the worsening human rights situation in the country

The renovation, to be executed in part by the architecture firm that designed the building’s original construction in 1974, comes after a contentious project to renovate its sculpture garden

Architect Edward Jones weighs in on the museum's controversial redevelopment plans

London museum's first female chief, who was pivotal in diversifying the collection and programme, departs to pursue curatorial projects related to climate change and Modernism

Decades-old questions resurface as Whitney show dedicated to the artist opens in New York

Suites of windows by each artist replace windows that glorified the antebellum South and the life of John C. Calhoun, a US president who supported slavery

In a move similar to the Nazis’ self-legalised art thefts, ancient gold treasure, paintings and Prince Potemkin’s mummified remains all risk being “preserved” by “evacuation”

Collectors Don and Mera Rubell, who also operate a museum in Miami, have added a major contemporary art space to the US capital’s cultural offerings