Members of Just Stop Oil tried to smash the case housing the historic document at the British Library

Staff allege that ongoing systemic issues have left the institution's art collection at risk—well before the City University of New York system could blame it all on lack of public funding

The institution launches competition to find an architectural firm that can transform its Bloomsbury site

Music, poetry, and Renaissance selfies are on the menu and—for two nights only—the Trafalgar Square frontage will be lit up with a dazzling, projection-mapped show on the museum's 200-year history

The oil on wood painting by Eramus Quelliness II was taken in a raid in 1979, though the thieves left behind much more valuable works

The museum has been slowly rebuilding ever since an electrical fire devastated its building and collection in 2018

Rather than creating another “psychological barrier” to culture, leaders and institutions could be thinking about more fair ways to fund the sector, writes Will Jennings

The expansion of the influential programme’s library and archives will be named the Keith Haring Wing in recognition of a gift from the artist’s foundation

An imitation website has been phishing for credit card details

The 1823 naturalist tome describes species of monkeys and bats unique to the Amazon

South African singer Tyla’s sandy Balmain dress was a show-stopper—and not just because she had to be carried up the stairs

Stalemate in the dispute over the fate of Miss’s Land art environment in Des Moines, Iowa

Ann Philbin’s last pre-retirement bash also set a record for attendance and fundraising

The Liverpool-born sculptor's 50-year engagement with organic, layered, forms works in natural harmony with the Yorkshire treasure house and its Arcadian grounds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is on the hunt for a new social media manager

The tennis legend's audio venture will coincide with a photography exhibition exploring the relationship between artistry and landscape

The face of the scandal-ridden, best-selling celebrity poet—who died 200 years ago, and had a great influence on 19th-century artists and composers—was better known in his era than that of anyone save Napoloen Bonaparte

JMW Turner, Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault were among the artists inspired by the much-portrayed poet whose concern for Venice and the Parthenon Marbles has a resonance 200 years after his death

The Vulcan Hotel, which closed in 2012, has been rebuilt on site brick by brick

The raid was reportedly related to an investigation into dissident artist Pyotr Verzilov

The gifts and acquisitions occurred during the museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend

Only fully covered Ancient Egyptian mummified remains will remain on display in the Egyptian Gallery of Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum

Low pay for museum workers, decreased local authority spending and a theft scandal have highlighted that "it’s time for some difficult choices," says the writer and broadcaster Ben Lewis

The Toronto museum had been closed since 26 March, when members of a union representing more than 400 employees went on strike

In a ceremony at the museum, Met director Max Hollein signed a "memorandum of understanding" together with a representative of the Thai cultural ministry

In addition to spending 60 days in prison, Joanna Smith will have to serve 150 hours of community service, ten of which she must spend cleaning graffiti

The antiquities, collectively valued at $3m, include a bronze “Shiva Triad” from Cambodia that the dealer Nancy Wiener donated to the Denver Art Museum after failing to find a buyer for it

More than a decade after Turkey asked for it back, the sculpture will finally be returned

The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970

A new biography reveals that the director of the Kröller-Müller Museum had earlier acquired eight Van Goghs for his personal collection—and he may have sold the finest one to Hitler’s deputy, Hermann Göring