Paintings by Monet, Matisse, Dalí and Picasso were snatched in a cinematic heist from Rio de Janeiro’s Museu da Chácara do Céu in 2006

Paul Ehorn, an 80-year-old shipwreck hunter, has finally located the long-lost luxury steamer Lac La Belle

Cultural sites and museums in Israel have closed and have been instructed to move their collections into bomb shelters

Angulo’s work was devoted to decolonising the museum, anti-racism and reparation with a special focus on diversifying narratives to include more Black and Indigenous voices

Founded by Alexander Wang and his mother Ying, the Wang Contemporary debuted at the landmarked 58 Bowery with a MSCHF installation timed to Lunar New Year

Records show how masters retained power over enslaved people even after emancipation

The city’s building boom has revealed many artefacts and human remains, but the pace of development has made study and preservation challenging

The Kontempo Center for Contemporary Art will be led by Reuben Keehan, the longtime curator of contemporary Asian art at the Queensland Art Gallery

Nicholas R. Bell, who previously led museums in Washington, DC, Calgary and Connecticut, will take the helm of Canada's most-visited museum

The Dutch museum has undertaken a two-year study of the 17th-century work "Vision of Zacharias in the Temple"

The gifted works are from Shore’s “Uncommon Places” series and make the gallery one of the largest collections of his photos in the world

The Giacometti Museum and School will open in 2028 with a vast collection of masterpieces, many of which have never been exhibited

Redevelopment makes Newcastle Art Gallery biggest regional collection in New South Wales

The place where we observe a work of art—and the feelings we have—play a crucial role in our experience

Display of sarcophagi of the Hohenzollerns, which span 500 years, includes a new exhibition

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD

Christophe Léribault will replace Laurence des Cars following her resignation and Annick Lemoine will take up the vacant position after the sudden death of Sylvain Amic

Des Cars had pursued a costly renovation and expansion plan even as staff went on strike to advocate for tackling more urgent issues

Walker’s “Unmanned Drone” is a centrepiece of “Monuments”, a landmark exhibition at Moca and The Brick

While local officials hailed the petroglyph as the potential linchpin of a heritage tourism to the region, archaeologists point to a lack of thorough analysis

A new era of exhibitions and infrastructure upgrades is coming to the oldest and largest state museum in the US

Anti-billionaire campaign group Everyone Hates Elon put the photograph up and called for "justice for all Epstein survivors"

The works—including pieces by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder, T.C. Cannon and others—were donated by the chair of the museum’s board of trustees and her husband

The area, known as a “graveyard of the Atlantic”, is the site of thousands of shipwrecks waiting to be discovered

The letter's signatories have criticised the Barbican's communication around Devyani Saltzman's departure

The commission’s members also opted to forego a later vote on the final stage of the design despite public comments on the project being “overwhelmingly in opposition—over 99%”

The repatriation, from a private collection in Detroit, is the largest of its kind in Brazil’s history

The annual event, now in its 36th edition, connects younger generations to the energetic and deeply symbolic Indigenous performance art

Saltzman’s departure caps a turbulent time for the London institution

Administration officials discussed adding multiple images of Trump to the “America’s Presidents” exhibition, and a second official portrait of the sitting president, even though the first has never gone on view