Museums & Heritage
How a Portuguese entrepreneur turned an 18th-century palace into a private museum
Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins opens on 22 March, at a time of significant growth in Lisbon’s art scene
‘We will not be a traditional institution’: Foto Arsenal Wien takes up the mantle of Vienna’s radical art roots
The new exhibition space, Austria’s first centre for photographic images and lens-based media, will open on 21 March
Thirty five years on from ‘the world’s largest art heist’, how much are the works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum worth?
From $200m to upwards of $1bn, the estimated value of the 13 works stolen in Boston on 18 March 1990 has varied in the decades since
Member of museum theft ring sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing Warhol and Pollock works
Thomas Trotta was part of a theft ring that nabbed a variety of items, including sports memorabilia and gold nuggets, from museums on the East Coast of the US over two decades
‘It's having a battering’: behind the Tate's latest round of layoffs
The UK institution is slashing 7% of its workforce as "real-terms decline" in public funds and declining visitor numbers continue to bite
Protestors descend on London’s Royal Academy over planned job cuts
The RA says that up to 60 jobs are a risk of redundancy—but the union claims the true figure is almost 100
The big art world slowdown, Dutch culture funding crisis, Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow—podcast
What’s behind the new, more measurement approaches to programming at museums, art fairs and more? Plus, a chat about current tensions around culture in the Netherlands and a close look at one of the most famous depictions of a wintery landscape
With the building of a new museum, Poland at last has a fitting space to tell Treblinka’s horrific story
The notorious death camp, in which hundreds of thousands perished, is only now getting a proper museum space to ensure the dark chapter in Europe’s history is not forgotten
Diplomacy museum and buildings designed by Breuer and Mies van der Rohe among hundreds of US federal properties briefly listed for sale
The list of buildings, briefly posted on the General Services Administration website, included 443 properties, many with cultural and historic significance
Politician detained after attacks on ‘blasphemous’ works at Greek National Gallery
Four works by artist Christoforos Katsadiotis were vandalised earlier this week, The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens confirmed
Rijksmuseum gives place of honour to newly acquired still life by Golden Age artist Maria van Oosterwijck
Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project supported by Chanel
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago receives $10m gift to support performance programme
The anonymous gift allows the museum to continue commissioning performance-art projects and expand efforts to collect and archive performances
25 years on: how Somerset House became a centre for contemporary art
The London institution had a false start as a museum, but is now thriving with its winning combination of hosting temporary exhibitions and art fairs, and renting studio spaces to creatives
Trump administration seeks to close 34 National Park Service offices, including at only Unesco World Heritage site in Texas
The San Antonio Missions National Historic Park's headquarters are central to the management of five 18th-century missions in and around the city
San Francisco museums brace for layoffs as a result of the city’s budget deficit
The de Young Museum, Legion of Honor and Asian Art Museum may let go of 20% of their security personnel
Masterwork by Mexico's foremost architect Luis Barragán becomes an art centre
La Cuadra San Cristobal, a complex on Mexico City’s outskirts, soft-launched with a project by Marina Abramović
A painting of Venice’s Grand Canal, previously thought to be by Canaletto, has been attributed to his teenage nephew
Specialists at London's Wallace Collection have attributed an 18th-century work to Bernardo Bellotto, who would then have been aged just 15 or 16
Amid desolation in Gaza, heritage experts are pushing a huge reconstruction effort
Political uncertainties may be deterring organisations from funding the €260m worth of restoration work needed to repair and rebuild the Gaza Strip’s wrecked historical sites, but emergency interventions are already underway
Art Institute of Chicago to return 12th-century Buddha sculpture to Nepal
The ancient statue, a museum fixture since the 1990s, will return to its rightful home following a voluntary restitution
Tourist admission fees at UK national museums would be ‘ideologically at odds’ with global collections, says new report
The report also describes the idea of charging international visitors as “logistically complex”
University College London’s art museum, housing works by Paula Rego and J.M.W. Turner, secures temporary home after academics protest
The news follows fears that the university’s bicentenary plans would force the museum’s collection into storage—though concerns remain over its long-term future
Turmoil at Italy’s museums as ticketing contracts change hands
The announcement of new providers for services at leading cultural institutions has prompted an outcry from workers and opposition politicians
Northern Sámi artist Máret Ánne Sara —known for highlighting ecological concerns —will take over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall this autumn
The move reflects an increased focus on Indigenous art practices in museums around the world
A battle for memory is playing out at Russia's Gulag Museum
As the Moscow institution is temporarily closed and its director, Roman Romanov, is dismissed, fears grow that Russia’s past is being glossed over
Art Museum of the Americas cancels shows of Black and LGBTQ+ artists amid Trump’s DEI crackdown
The Washington, DC institution had been due to open exhibitions about queer identity and the African diaspora in the Americas this month
The Grand Egyptian Museum is due to finally open on 3 July, here’s a sneak peek
The Art Newspaper took a tour of this treasure-stuffed colossus and was impressed by its gargantuan scale and coherent layout
‘All about grief and mourning’: Sydney museum repatriates human remains to Papua New Guinea
Amid colourful ceremonies, Chau Chak Wing Museum returned 16 human skulls to the inhabitants of six villages
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s director will depart before institution opens
George Lucas, the “Star Wars” film-maker and co-founder of the museum, will take on a programming role following Sandra Jackson-Dumont’s departure
On Parade: Berwick-upon-Tweed communities go up in lights, ten times life size, on historic Hawksmoor building
Matthew Rosier's film "Parade" projects border town's diverse community back to itself as National Heritage Lottery Fund awards £4.5m grant for restoration of Berwick barracks as arts centre