Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars

The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on

The artist is the fourth to receive the museum's commission to install work on the Fifth Avenue entrance of its Neoclassical building

From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more

The show will focus on the movement’s influences on Modernism on both sides of the Atlantic

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The app, Replica, is a partnership with Verizon that lets visitors deploy works from the museum’s collection in the popular game Roblox

Joanna Smith and Tim Martin face up to five years in prison after smearing paint on the case and pedestal of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art

Joe Scotland is made an MBE while Deborah Swallow of the Courtauld and Andrew Bolton at the Met are also recognised

The new facility will bring science-based material exploration, art activities and countless forms of play to the museum's youngest patrons

Hazardous air blowing smoke into the city from fires in Canada pressed cultural institutions and art spaces to close or postpone events

The institution will return funds donated by the defunct exchange and hedge fund led by Sam Bankman-Fried prior to its untimely collapse

The artist's 100th birthday coincides with an array of exhibition programming, celebrations and municipal recognitions of Kelly's legacy

The figurines, which were looted from the ancient city of Uruk, belong to one of the oldest civilisations on earth

How the flamelike trees came to rival the sunflowers as a signature motif

Brown's survey exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art brings fresh eyes to a time-tested medium

From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

X-ray technology has revealed that a hidden man in the background of 'A Maid Asleep' is holding a paintbrush

The chandeliers made from repurposed plastic bottles are similar to sculptures Cole has been making and showing for a decade

The red carpet delivered countless interpretations of the late designer’s iconic wardrobe and his treasured Birman cat, Choupette

The fashion designer’s fantastical sketches are given equal billing with the dresses that made him famous

For the New York installation, the Californian artist has carved onto a concrete pavilion references to Afrofuturism and funk music and images of her family and friends

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

Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez

The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection

Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career

The New York institution, usually the most popular art museum in the US, was overtaken in 2022 by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

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