Museums & Heritage

Judge orders the Art Institute of Chicago to restitute Nazi-looted Schiele drawing

The latest development in the ongoing dispute over a 1916 portrait believed to have been stolen from Fritz Grünbaum by the Nazis

Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló is reaping the rewards from its continual reinvention

The Barcelona museum's latest revamp has added 2,000 sq. m for immersive exhibitions

Nelson-Atkins Museum picks architect for $160m expansion

The museum in Kansas City has tapped the firm Weiss Manfredi to overhaul its campus

Taiwan's newest art institution taps into a flourishing local scene

The New Taipei City Art Museum, which opens to the public on 25 April, is part of a drive to distinguish the municipality from the neighbouring capital

Swiss Bührle Foundation reaches settlement with heirs of Jewish collector over Manet’s ‘La Sultane’

The settlement with the successor of Max Silberberg, of which details are confidential, allows the painting to remain on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich

Jeremy Deller to close National Gallery's bicentenary celebrations with ‘first of its kind’ parade and party

The event, planned to take place in London's Trafalgar Square on 26 July, will draw folklore and traditions from across the UK

Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams to create large-scale commissions for Obama Presidential Center

The centre in Chicago will feature a tiled installation by Finch and a bright, abstract composition by Adams

World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the Catholic church and custodian of the Vatican’s treasures, who has died, aged 88

The election of the new pope will be closely watched by supporters of the Argentinian pontiff’s legacy looking for a successor who will act as a progressive voice, highlighting global climate crisis and the needs of immigrants and the poor

Democratic lawmakers urge J.D. Vance to save the Smithsonian from Trump

Four members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to the US Vice-President to articular their "great concern over [the Smithsonian's] future"

Canadian art museum gets $36m funding boost for expansion from provincial government

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the country’s largest museum devoted to Canadian art, has also received $18m from the federal government toward the renovation and expansion project

Getty Museum acquires painting by Spanish Renaissance master Luis de Morales following extensive conservation

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo

How the Imperial War Museum became the reluctant owner of an official Nazi portrait of Adolf Hitler

The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937

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This art historian is on a quest to ensure the story of Arab art is not lost

Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts

British Museum to loan ‘some of the rarest surviving examples’ of Ice Age art to UK's City of Culture

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer

Work honouring anarchist sparks outrage in Milan

Politicians in the city say the “inadequate” display of the mixed-media piece depicting Giuseppe Pinelli, who died after falling out of a police station window, fails to properly confront a dark chapter in the city’s history

Pierre Terjanian named next director of MFA Boston

The longtime curator of arms and armour has served as the museum’s chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since January 2024

For Madrid's Prado museum, the good times just keep rolling

A Veronese show in May is set to be latest in long line of Renaissance Venice crowd-pleasers for the Spanish institution

So long, stag parties: Barcelona banks on art to tempt ‘quality’ tourists

Amid a backlash by locals fed up with party-loving visitors, the city’s tourism authority has teamed up with museums to promote a series of exhibitions

Ten essential Caravaggio paintings to see in Rome

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a selection of his most captivating works to see in the city all year round

The Broad breaks ground on its $100m expansion

If everything goes according to plan, the buildout will open just before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

Is Macron's grand vision for the Louvre just a fantasy?

President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze

Climate activist found guilty of ‘defacing’ Degas sculpture at US National Gallery of Art

A Trump executive order aimed at cracking down on vandalism in Washington, DC has turned up the heat on climate protests

Patients can be prescribed visits to Emily Carr exhibition under new Vancouver Art Gallery mental health initiative

As part of Canada’s national nature prescription programme, healthcare professionals can send visitors to the gallery in support of their psychological wellbeing

National Gallery of Art marking 250th anniversary of US with loans to ten museums across the country

The initiative, already underway and continuing through May 2026, comes as the Trump administration has pressured arts funders and institutions to prioritise semiquincentennial projects

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YouTube sensation MrBeast was given ‘unrestricted access’ to the pyramids—Egyptologists say it’s a good thing

Jimmy Donaldson, who has nearly 400 million followers on the video-streaming platform, shot a viral video in Giza, which may be helping to educate a new audience

Former Tate chief appointed inaugural chair of Gallery Climate Coalition

Frances Morris says she will be regaining a climate advocacy role at a crucial moment

Museum visitor figures, William Morris mania and Marguerite Matisse—podcast

Analysing the highs and lows of our recent attendance survey, plus a tour of a show exploring how the UK’s most famous Victorian designer ”went viral”, and a chat about the ways Henri Matisse’s daughter shaped his life and art

Seoul museums shut their doors as court removes President Yoon

Downtown commercial galleries were also among those to make the decision as police prepared for potential political violence

‘We cannot remain silent’: Museums in Los Angeles brace for Trump’s immigration crackdown

Faced with anti-immigrant policies, institutional leaders are providing “know your rights” guidance

Miami collecting couple gift multi-million pound Joan Mitchell work to Tate

Jorge and Darlene Pérez will also fund curatorial endowment and have pledged to make a donation of African art