Museums & Heritage
London’s National Gallery to cut staff as it faces £8.2m deficit
The institution is offering a “voluntary exit scheme” for all employees and will be reducing its activities
Plan for Centre Pompidou in New Jersey is ‘dead’, local official says
The new mayor of Jersey City, James Solomon, said a long-planned outpost of the French museum is no longer happening
‘Good people are being compelled to censor themselves’: exhibition of Black artists reinterpreting the US flag opens without key Dread Scott work
The artist was approached about including his seminal work in an exhibition at the University of Maryland’s Driskell Center, but ultimately it was not featured; he and the curators disagree on the reasons why
Syria’s Hasakah Museum—occupied by military for more than a decade—to finally open
The archaeological museum in northeast Syria—which was out of sight of many local residents until late 2024—is opening 24 years after construction on it began
Ornate 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum has called it ”the most important archaeological finding of the last decade”
Chicago’s Intuit Art Museum gifted 61 works by self-taught artists
The gifted works come from the estate of longtime supporter Jan Petry and the collection of Los Angeles-based scholar Gordon W. Bailey
Queens Museum picks Debra Wimpfheimer as next executive director
Wimpfheimer has worked at the institution since 2002, most recently as deputy director to Sally Tallant, who is London-bound
London's Brutalist Southbank Centre awarded protected heritage status
The post-war arts complex has been Grade II listed but one critic has responded by calling it a “concrete monstrosity”
London’s Mosaic Rooms, dedicated to art from the Arab region, reopens after expansion
The space in Kensington has relaunched with a continued focus on both international strategies of resistance and its local community
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will return three bronze sculptures to India after provenance review
One of the sculptures will remain on long-term display at the Washington, DC, museum
World Monuments Fund provides $7m to support 21 new conservation projects around the globe
The organisation has also launched a special programme for the semiquincentennial of the US's founding
‘These are dirty funds’: Indigenous Brazilian leader slams Science Museum for oil sponsorship ahead of climate show
Ninawa Huni Kui has spoken out ahead of a show focused on the threatened Brazilian ecosystem of the Pantanal
US National Gallery of Art acquires important Artemisia Gentileschi painting
The Baroque master’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”, which sold at auction for €865,500 in 2014, will go on display in Washington, DC, later this month
Open letter calls for ousting of Art Gallery of Ontario trustee who led vote against Nan Goldin acquisition
The institution will also overhaul its committee structure in response to the scandal
Exhibitions to see during Mexico City Art Week
From audio-tape portraits to the mother-daughter relationship, we share some must-see shows
Guatemala’s Museo de Arte Colonial shut down by authorities
The court-ordered raid has resulted in the relocation of nearly 300 works of art, part of the nation’s premier colonial collection
Alabama advocacy group expands its historical sites
After building a museum, memorial and sculpture park, the Equal Justice Initiative opens a new site celebrating Civil Rights Era resistance in Montgomery
Rome introduces Trevi Fountain tourist fee
Visitors to Rome will now pay to access the famous fountain and five other historic monuments
‘An institution where you delve into works’: details of AlUla Contemporary Art Museum announced
The vision and name for the new institution, opening in the AlUla culture and heritage site in northwest Saudi Arabia, were revealed on 1 February
Pioneering sculptor Geles Cabrera’s Mexico City retrospective marks centennial
The exhibition at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes traces the 99-year-old Mexican artist’s unique and dynamic approach to the human figure and highlights her work as a cultural organiser
Documentary tracks Indigenous efforts to recover ancestors’ remains from museums and universities
The new film, “Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild]”, follows one campaign in Michigan and foreshadows many more
One battle after another: Trump’s war on federal architecture
The US president has set his sights on transforming the city of Washington, DC, to fit his grandiose aesthetic
Dutch national photo collection opens in new Rotterdam home
Nederlands Fotomuseum has appointed a new director ahead of reopening in a former coffee warehouse on 7 February
London’s National Gallery appoints Patrick Elliott as curator of Modern paintings
Hire of former National Galleries of Scotland curator is part of museum's expansion of its collection into the 20th and 21st centuries
Louvre Abu Dhabi director Manuel Rabaté leaves to head India’s largest private art museum
French civil servant joins the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi as it prepares to move to a vast new complex
MFA Boston will lay off 33 employees amid rising deficit and restructuring
The layoffs amount to a reduction of the museum’s staff by around 6.3% and include 16 unionised workers
Russia's winter bombardment puts strain on Ukrainian museum workers
Targeted attacks on electric and water supplies amid freezing conditions are further complicating the work of cultural organisations
Former Swiss president to head new Nazi loot panel
The new Commission for Historically Problematic Cultural Heritage—whose remit also includes claims for cultural heritage that changed hands in a colonial context—will issue non-binding recommendations
Fifty-year restoration of Sainte-Chapelle's monumental stained glass inches closer to completion
Long-haul conservation project contrasts with the speed of neighbour Notre-Dame’s repair after the 2019 fire
Florida coin hoard worth $1m resurfaces debate over treasure hunting
Recent discoveries have renewed archaeologists’ concerns that a shipwreck-salvage company has exclusive rights to artefacts aboard a sunken 1715 fleet





























