Hepworth insiders Laura Smith and Olivia Colling have been appointed into new roles as the gallery celebrates its 15th anniversary this year

An artist was asked by Vatican officials to paint over the image he had created during a restoration last year

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The museum marks the 20th anniversary of its reopening with new commissions and Art Week performance

Born out of the merger of East and West Germany's collections, the institution, which propelled the careers of Anne Imhof and Tomás Saraceno among many others, is celebrating its birthday with a year-long programme of events and a star-studded gala

After building a museum, memorial and sculpture park, the Equal Justice Initiative opens a new site celebrating Civil Rights Era resistance in Montgomery

Launched by Qatar Foundation, Lawh Wa Qalam: M. F. Husain Museum is dedicated to the restlessly energetic Indian artist, who spent his final years in Qatar working on an ambitious new body of work

The vision and name for the new institution, opening in the AlUla culture and heritage site in northwest Saudi Arabia, were revealed on 1 February

Hire of former National Galleries of Scotland curator is part of museum's expansion of its collection into the 20th and 21st centuries

French civil servant joins the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi as it prepares to move to a vast new complex

A drive to develop the commercial sector is the latest push from the government to promote its artists

The visit is intended as a relationship-boosting exercise though the government said the prime minister would also “raise the areas where we disagree with China”

Targeted attacks on electric and water supplies amid freezing conditions are further complicating the work of cultural organisations

Housed in a huge former Citroën garage, the space will be home to modern and contemporary art, including loans from the French museum

With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether

The Lebanese artist and composer blends sound, technology and sculpture to reference current social, historical and political realities

Institutions are analysing their relationship with audiences during a sobering time for many in the sector

Many cultural leaders welcome the move, while the UK National Audit Office reports that the culture department is consistently underspending

Tallant will also direct visual art at the Southbank Centre

For eight years Hill has led the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, which jointly won Art Fund Museum of the Year and hosted the Turner Prize under his tenure

A reporter for The Art Newspaper has been on the scene with the Heritage Crime Task Force (HCTF), tracking, identifying and repatriating a wide variety of art and antiquities lost to crime and conflict

The work is being sold from the collection of the Dukes of Bedford to help fund the refurbishment of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire

Two recent reports have raised questions about why the Centre national des arts plastiques has never exhibited a quarter of the works in its care

Tinari departs from UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing after more than 15 years

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The famous painting, held in the Mauristhuis museum in The Hague, was banned from travel in 2014

More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside the Florence museum demanding an end to “low-paid and precarious work”

M HKA played a crucial role in linking emerging and established forms of art

Museums may need to rethink their content and find new ways to engage with young fans online

The National Gallery and Imperial War Museum seek the public’s views on purpose and priorities