Museums & Heritage

More than 160 Tutankhamun treasures have arrived at the Grand Egyptian Museum

Conservation work will be carried out on on key objects ahead of the museum's long awaited launch on 3 July

How Javier Milei’s war on history is threatening art spaces in Argentina

After effectively shutting down two cultural centres, the Argentine president appears to have the ESMA Museum, a Unesco World Heritage Site, in his sights

Mexican authorities decry ‘distorted information’ in MrBeast video filmed at ancient Mayan sites

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History released a statement praising MrBeast's mission while correcting some moments of "theatricality" in his video

Behind the scenes of the Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing with its acclaimed architect

Kulapat Yantrasast has a design philosophy of “cultural Pad Thai”—multiple perspectives combined into something unique and approachable

‘There is not enough money for education’: French philanthropist to fund museum visits for 100,000 UK children

Frédéric Jousset will provide £1m over four years to send school children to cultural venues, including the British Museum

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Comment | The greatest failure of PST Art: its successes are not travelling

As the Getty wraps up its third edition of this initiative, it is time to address a persistent problem

In Rotterdam, a new art museum explores the city's rich history of migration

Opening on 16 May, Fenix addresses the arrivals and departures that have given the Dutch port its energy and modernity

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Artist Alison Saar wins High Museum’s 20th annual Driskell Prize

The renowned sculptor, whose distinctive public work was most recently featured in the Desert X biennial, will be formally honoured with the $50,000 prize at a gala in September

Chile to get a new contemporary art museum

The New Museum of Santiago will highlight Latin American artists with more than 1,000 works from the Chilean businessman Claudio Engel’s private collection

5,000-year-old woman uncovered in Peru with hair and nails still intact

The exceptional find at Áspero reveals women’s high status in the ancient Caral civilisation

UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting

The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years

The Big Review | The reopening and rehang of the Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London ★★★★★

The two-year remodelling of the Sainsbury Wing as the National Gallery's main entrance has allowed for new restorations and fresh curation of the museum's unrivalled collection of early Renaissance pictures. The effect is revelatory

Tschabalala Self sculpture of two Black lovers will adorn exterior of New York's New Museum when it reopens

“I wanted to show an aspiration for better times to come,” the artist says of her commission

Iraq's important archaeological sites under threat from real-estate development

Tell Al Sayyagh, in the heart of the ancient city of Kufa, is in danger because of the country’s investment law, which many say is being abused

Water leaks into the Louvre’s Cimabue exhibition, landing close to the master’s greatest early painting

A violent hailstorm on Saturday caused water to drip into the room hosting the important show, but “no works were damaged”, a spokesperson says

Art Institute of Chicago’s director on leave amid investigation into airplane incident

James Rondeau, the museum’s president and director, is on voluntary leave after reportedly removing his clothes on a flight from Chicago to Munich

MoMA acquires works featured in monumental Adam Pendleton installation

The museum has acquired 35 pieces—including videos, drawings and paintings—that made up Pendleton’s sprawling atrium installation in 2021-22

Megasculpture workshop and landscape reclamation drive Storm King Art Center regeneration

The biggest sculpture park in the US starts its visitor season with a bang—unveiling a first-ever conservation and fabrication building, major relandscaping, and monumental works by Kevin Beasley, Sonia Gomes and Dionne Lee

First look: the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ rehang at London's National Gallery

The reopening of the Sainsbury Wing on 10 May will allow the gallery to show nearly 40% of its collection. The Art Newspaper took an early tour

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Comment | Losing federal funding for emergency heritage conservation in the US is a disaster

The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation’s National Heritage Responders programme has channelled federal funding and support from local organisations to help communities struck by natural disasters to preserve their culture

Masterworks from Jacob Rothschild collection go to London's National Gallery and V&A under acceptance in lieu scheme

Guercino’s “King David” and a rare relief by John Deare have been allocated to the London institutions in lieu of inheritance tax on the estate of the celebrated financier, philanthropist and heritage leader

Lacma acquires self-portrait by long-overlooked female Old Master

Virginia Vezzi's "Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" is one of the 112 pieces acquired during the museum's annual Collectors Committee Weekend

As Kazakhstan cautiously strengthens ties with western Europe, new art venues herald a change of direction

Due to open in September, the Tselinny Center and the Almaty Museum of the Arts are both financed by Kazakh entrepreneurs

Two new art centres set to open in Venice

The new San Marco Art Centre will be based in St Mark’s Square from next month, while the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation will take over the Dorsoduro building

Chicago's Intuit Art Museum set to unveil $10m renovation

The small but mighty museum for outsider art is reopening after a two-year overhaul

MFA Boston to return Benin Bronzes to wealthy donor, close gallery

The unusual move follows years of negotiations between the museum, the collector and the Kingdom of Benin

Sistine Chapel to close for conclave preparations

Other cultural sites have also been steadily shutting down to visitors as the Vatican marks the death of Pope Francis

Holy ground: why Persian carpets played an important symbolic role in the funeral of Pope Francis

For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, including Andrea del Verrochio, to indicate a carefully defined, sacred space

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