Museums & Heritage

New Getty grant initiative supports museums’ accessibility and engagement efforts

The foundation is giving grants to 11 institutions, from Oklahoma to Hong Kong

Toledo Museum of Art launches initiative to donate art books to African libraries

The Ohio institution has given books to the Koyo Kouoh Library at the Gihanga Institute of Contemporary Art in Rwanda, and to the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana

V&A proposing significant cuts to its academy amid financial pressures

The proposals would end many of the UK institution’s in-person adult-learning courses, and come despite the academy’s recent record sales

Museum acquisitions round-up: a Joan Jonas dance performance and a squirrelly readymade

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

2,500-year-old solar observatory identified in Mexico

Offerings and obsidian pieces uncovered at the site suggest ancient cultural connections spanning across the region

Students stage protest performance over closure of Chicago's DePaul Art Museum

The museum, located on the DePaul University campus, has been closed to the public since June

Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay and other Paris institutions to close on Saturday due to protests

The Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Musée National Picasso‑Paris and the Maison de Victor Hugo are also shutting their doors as a precautionary measure

Philadelphia Museum of Art receives $20m to establish new education centre

The gift from Lois G. and Julian A. Brodsky will be used to strengthen the museum’s ties with local schools, families and children

What to expect from Centre Pompidou’s vast new conservation-focused site in the Parisian suburbs

Centre Pompidou Francilien – fabrique de l'art is hosting preview weekends this month ahead of its spring 2027 opening

Alison Kuo pays homage to Cantonese opera at the New Museum

This weekend, the New York-based artist celebrates her family history and diaspora communities in the culmination of her museum residency

Québec museum opens $61m pavilion celebrating renowned artist Jean Paul Riopelle

The Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec’s new space will display dozens of works by the province’s most famous Modern artist

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West closes after visitor killed by wind-blown debris

Rogério Renato Mateucci, the rector of a Brazilian university, died last week on at the architect’s former home and studio in Arizona

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Comment | Seabed heritage is facing catastrophic destruction on multiple fronts

From bottom-trawling fishing boats to increased ocean acidity, shipwrecks and other maritime heritage are in peril throughout the world

Hundreds protest far-right government's removal of objects from Colombia's national museum

President Abelardo de la Espriella ordered that dozens of objects related to LGBTQ+ rights and feminism be taken down from displays at the Museo Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá

Sprawling contemporary art centre Large opens on island near Paris

The non-profit, which will open with a show riffing on the island’s automotive history, is focused on promoting the French art scene

Ancient shipwreck found off Turkey may be the world’s oldest

Discovery of remains of 4,500-year-old ship reveal new evidence about Early Bronze Age trade routes

US-Italian curator Francesco Bonami appointed artistic director of Moscow's GES-2 House of Culture

Bonami aims to “catalyse artistic energy” and “search for the best projects” for the institution, which is funded by billionaire Leonid Mikhelson’s V-A-C Foundation

François Pinault to launch permanent display of his collection at Venice’s Palazzo Grassi

The billionaire collector’s decision means the prestigious temporary exhibition programme at the palazzo is coming to an end

British Museum’s chair optimistic on possible alternating display of Parthenon Marbles in Athens and London

The chair of the museum’s board of trustees told a Greek newspaper he would “like to reach an agreement” for a rotating display in Athens and London, but Greek authorities remain opposed

Brazil’s Centre Pompidou outpost delayed until 2029

Originally due to open in 2027, then 2028, the project in the southern state of Paraná, where the government changed in the recent election, has been further delayed

Suspects in Renoir paintings heist were planning separate robbery at Fondation Maeght, police chief says

Investigators have released details about the theft of two works by the French Impressionist after they were recovered from behind a concrete wall

Mexican military retreats from plans to build enormous museum in a popular park

Following widespread opposition, including from Mexico City’s mayor, the plans to build a sprawling military museum in Bosque de Chapultepec are on hold while authorities seek an alternative site

House museum of Spanish ‘master of light’ Joaquín Sorolla reopens in Madrid

The Sorolla Museum launches building's new extension while the original historic building undergoes restoration

Dutch museum returns ancient vase to Sicily after research uncovers ‘problematic’ provenance

Rogier Kalkers from Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson museum says he hopes the restitution will be a “stepping stone towards further collaboration” with Sicilian authorities

Culture wars ramp up in Latin America as governments lurch to the right

Right-wing governments across the region are cutting cultural budgets and recasting the arts around conservative values

Austrian presidential hopeful pledges to return Moctezuma’s headdress to Mexico

With the 2028 election just over the horizon, the economist Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn has put the long-contested Aztec treasure back in the spotlight

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art makes room—and lots of it—for murals by Banksy, Baca and others

From rare interventions by Banksy to monumental images by JR and Diego Rivera, and preparatory sketches by Judy Baca, the museum frames muralism as public storytelling

Louvre Abu Dhabi appoints Souraya Noujaim as new director

Noujaim previously served as the United Arab Emirates-based museum’s scientific, curatorial and collections management director

Brooklyn Museum’s $48m energy-efficiency retrofit is latest in New York City’s effort to cut emissions

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services has undertaken similar projects at cultural institutions across the five boroughs, including the Museum of the Moving Image and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum gains new €45m Norman Foster-designed wing

Renovation expands exhibition spaces and provides new facilities as well as creating better links with its neighbour, the Guggenheim Bilbao