So far, the museum has not determined who the boy is, but it has reidentified other figures in the controversial painting, which is about to go back on view

Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove

Kristy Edmunds replaces Joseph C. Thompson after lengthy period of layoffs and new staff union over pandemic

East End institution will no longer cater to adults “revelling in nostalgia” and rather be focussed on those aged up to 14 years old

Doron Langberg will pair off with Hans Holbein, and Salman Toor will join Vermeer in the Breuer building this week

Around 100 scholars have signed a petition to the city’s mayor arguing that Marc-Olivier Wahler is not the right person to run the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire

The museum and libarary in northern Manhattan has a new director with a packed agenda—and some needed improvements on its horizon

Lindy Lee's A$14m sculpture will be one of the country's first environmentally sustainable public works

Philanthropist succeeds Tony Hall, who stepped down following row over Princess Diana interview

New deputy director Naomi Beckwith says "we can re-centre where the stories of art are told"

The set of five richly coloured lacquer vessels by artist Chung Haecho will go on show in the New York museum this December

Can another museum with a commitment to broaden Americans’ exposure to great art, including pre-contemporary works, take up the show?

The Leeds institution is making—and collecting—history

Museum of the Year 2021 celebrates the sector’s triumphs in the face of adversity, says Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director and jury chair for the £100,000 prize

The Cité du Vitrail will open in the medieval town of Troyes in spring 2022, but preview tours are running this weekend for the European Heritage Days

Leribault will oversee a major redevelopment of the Musée d’Orsay over the next decade

The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October

The actor debuted a new performance and installation in the Breuer building, before protestors crashed the party at the Costume Institute’s annual celebrity fundraiser

Museo Nacional del Perú (Muna) boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 Pre- Columbian objects, including repatriated artefacts

Russian museum will look beyond the market hype to address deeper questions about "the specific possibilities of this medium", says contemporary art curator Dimitri Ozerkov

The response in Ottawa “shows people crave experiencing visual arts in person”, director Sasha Suda says

Nascent museum proclaims a commitment to economic justice and expansion of the art canon

Move follows long-running dispute with the Italian ministry of culture over the 13th-century Certosa di Trisulti

Deadly rains in central Henan province threatened key Unesco World Heritage sites and hundreds of national relics. Experts warn the disaster may be a taste of future trouble

The new institution has been founded by the private collector and businessman and Rudy Ciccarello

Plus, artist Bill Fontana records Notre Dame's bells

Burton will run the museum with Klaus Biesenbach, who has been reassigned as artistic director in a restructuring

A turf battle may loom on the National Mall, but secretary Lonnie Bunch hopes to limit the hurdles for institutions devoted to Latino culture and women’s history

Scientific testing reveals that the artist radically changed his depiction of a Paris couple in a landmark 1788 painting