Museums & Heritage

Paintings safe from soup as Just Stop Oil ‘hangs up the high viz’

The controversial climate campaign group, whose protests have included throwing orange cornflour at Stonehenge and supergluing themselves to various works of art, says its final action will take place in April

‘Ravaging shared heritage’: South Korea wildfires destroy ancient temple and threaten Unesco site

At least 28 people have died in the fires, which are now the country's worst ever natural fire disaster

Vancouver Art Gallery parts ways with director and chief executive Anthony Kiendl

Kiendl’s departure comes a few months after the gallery pulled the plug on an ambitious but costly building project it had already spent C$60m on

‘First museum in Europe dedicated to contemporary Palestinian art’ to open in Edinburgh

The Palestine Museum US’s director hopes the institution will challenge “dominant narratives and showcase the rich cultural heritage of Palestine”

Yale Center for British Art reopens after two years

The museum will mark the occasion with solo exhibitions of J.M.W. Turner and Tracey Emin in its building, designed by the Modernist architect Louis Kahn

São Paulo's Museu de Arte to unveil sprawling expansion featuring 14-storey tower

This month’s opening will more than double the museum's space, and help to overcome its infrastructure limitations

Awardsnews

ICA Boston launches $100,000 award for women artists, with Sarah Sze winning inaugural edition

The new Meraki Artist Prize is funded by Fotene Demoulas, whose family owns the Market Basket supermarket chain

A new destination for contemporary art takes shape in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Construction on the Eacheve Foundation’s new complex broke ground in January and is on track to be completed in time for an opening in autumn 2025

Bigger is not better and free admission costs institutions less, museum report finds

Remuseum’s second report concludes that admission fees are raising few funds and keeping out potential visitors—and expansions are often not worth the money

Longing for home: sacred drum among first objects restituted to the US by the Netherlands

The 350-year-old artifact is one of seven objects returned to the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Native American tribe

London Museum receives £20m cash boost and Roman artefact trove from Bloomberg

The private donation becomes the largest the museum has received to date

Revealed: British Museum’s visitor figures hit ten-year high

While other UK institutions continue to struggle, the British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figures survey has revealed

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