Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will focus on the preparatory sketches for some of the French painter’s best known masterpieces

Vincent wanted to sell the set for under a dollar as “art for the people”—the museum will have paid several million

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

The Metropolitan Museum will stay opened at reduced capacity, while others like the Yale University Art Gallery and the Baltimore Museum of Art close temporarily

The galleries, housed in the Michael C. Rockefeller wing of the museum, will be modernised to better contextualise the collection and illustrate the ‘complex story of cultural development over the last 5,000 years’

In an open letter started by Nan Goldin, world-renowned artists denounced the museum’s ties to the Sacklers due to the family’s role in the opioid crisis

Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London

The announcement comes as museums worldwide sever ties with members of the Sackler family over their role in the opioid crisis

An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores how the legendary film-maker came to be inspired by French decorative arts

Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum

An ongoing Indigenous protest movement is forcing museums across North America to confront a pressing question - who really owns the land on which they stand, and what should they do about it?

Two 16th century brass plaques and a 14th century Ife head have been returned to Nigeria

Lead curator Hannah Beachler’s imaginative long-term installation brings past, present and future into dialogue

From Etel Adnan at the Guggenheim to the final weekend of Kusama's blockbuster show at the NYBG

Expert says there is a "long list of returns expected from museums", as Cambodia cites new evidence of war-time looting

New York show, which will travel to London next year, looks at how the movement inspired artists around the world long into the 20th century

Artist commissions, expert discussions and film premieres will take place in the city, starting and ending with a pair of symposia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

The stelae, on loan from Guatemala, feature life-sized depictions of ancient Indigenous leaders

From the Met’s survey of women photographers to Wong Ping’s dark films at the New Museum

Instagram is sponsoring the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Met Gala for the first time this year. Could this be a marriage made in heaven?

Plus, Rania Matar's photographic portraits

Chronicling the work of female photographers from the 1920s to the 1950s, a show organised with the National Gallery of Art breaks significant ground

From Huguette Caland at The Drawing Center to the last week to visit the Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

The Benin Court plaques donated in 1991 with more than 150 other works, have been deaccessioned, while a third object, an Ife Head offered for purchase, will instead be restituted

We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences

Museum says the move is intended to promote “truthful narratives” and promote social change

The two-part exhibition invokes the upheaval of the past year and will be accompanied by an "intimate" gala this September and then a more expansive benefit next May