Opening new galleries and showcasing its sphinx, Penn Museum rebrands its image
Museum at the University of Pennsylvania will open 10,000 sq. ft of reimagined spaces
Whitney Museum acquires 88 works by biennial artists
Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders
Jayne Wrightsman leaves over 375 works of art and $80m to the Met
From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all
Tutmania returns. Plus, Duchamp in the US
We review Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh at London's Saatchi Gallery and talk about the Modern master Marcel Duchamp at the Hirshhorn Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
Google and Lin-Manuel Miranda team up on a project to share Puerto Rican art online
Digitisation effort draws on works from four institutions in a push for cultural preservation
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an 800-year-old figure of Christ to a rediscovered Delacroix painting
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alexandre Singh's dark thriller at Metro Pictures to entrancing etchings at the Met, the best shows to see this Halloween weekend
After a discovery, Rothko Chapel moves to shore up its walls
Lack of steel reinforcement results in a plan to insert rebar, delaying the reopening of the Modernist sanctuary
In a conservation triumph, a 15th-century tapestry highlights the age of chivalry
“It’s the most spectacular representation of a tournament of that time,” a Met curator says
Celebrating a French artist who captured a young America
Exhibition profiles the intrepid Baroness Hyde de Neuville, who chased down Napoleon and was friendly with America's founding fathers—and never stopped drawing
Citing daunting threats, World Monuments Fund lists 25 endangered sites
Bears Ears in the US, a Peruvian valley near Machu Picchu and Notre Dame in Paris join the 2020 roster
Wildfire spread close to the Getty Center, but an official says the art is ‘just fine’
The campus in the Santa Monica Mountains was designed to resist fire, with a powerful irrigation system, million-gallon water tank and air conditioning that pushes smoke out instead of letting it in
San Diego artist wins top prize in US portrait competition with immigration-themed animation
Washington's National Portrait Gallery will display finalists’ work in a contest that helped to vault the reputation of Amy Sherald
How a method of armour decorating in 16th-century Germany spawned a new printmaking technique
Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art charts the evolution of etching through Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden
MoMA special: our verdict on the museum opening of the year
We speak to two of the museum's curators leading the expansion and our New York team sit down to discuss the highs and lows of the new space. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
New York's Morgan Library receives ‘transformational’ trove of manuscripts and bindings
Bequest comes from New York collector Jayne Wrightsman, who amassed an 18th-century library to complement her celebrated French furnishings
Ruby City: collector Linda Pace's dream museum becomes reality in Texas
Wizard of Oz vision inspires new $15m contemporary art centre in San Antonio designed by David Adjaye
In pictures: inside the new MoMA
Before the public opening, we sought out some highlights from the rehang
Expert finds lost dress of Queen Elizabeth I in English village church
Rare 16th-century fabric to go on show at Hampton Court Palace after three-year study
A New York salute to Rube Goldberg and his outlandish contraptions
Queens Museum celebrates a cartoonist who seems more relevant than ever
MoMA will celebrate reopening with six site-specific works in its public spaces
Installations range from Haim Steinbach’s phrases and slogans to Yoko Ono’s blue sky
Top five museum acquisitions of the month
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from Dorothea Tanning's Surrealist terrier to vintage prints by Vivian Maier
New Museum and union reach agreement on a contract
After a strike threat, a marathon bargaining session results in an average pay increase of 8% for full-time employees
Grant will help restore two long-lost frescoes in San Francisco
The conservation project contrasts with a decision to cover up a controversial 1930s school mural in the same city
New Museum employees vote to strike if no agreement is reached with management
Saying the two sides are sharply at odds, workers vote 69 to 3 in favour of a strike should progress prove elusive
Special: is art education in crisis? Featuring Bob and Roberta Smith
As art schools start their new term in the UK, this week’s episode is an education special. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met Breuer’s Vija Celmins retrospective to Kehinde Wiley’s first public sculpture
Looted coffin acquired by Metropolitan Museum is headed back to Egypt
US and Egyptian officials presided over handover at a repatriation ceremony in New York
Poignant online videos showcase 20 sites from Alabama’s civil rights era
World Monuments Fund joins partners in launching an oral history project
Park Service report warns that Trump's border fence could harm archaeological sites
Experts worry that artefacts would be in peril if a 30-ft-high steel barrier is built