In the third part of a new series, Adrian Ellis looks at the cost of state support in illiberal democracies and the insidious erosion of institutional independence

The Canadian institution aims to double its membership and expand its audience with one-year pilot programme

Museum seeks fourth director in as many years amid claims its renowned avant-garde collection is being “mistreated”

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Delacroix’s sketchbooks to a pair of Brexit vases

Laboratory tests revealed "sensational" discovery that the figure in Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window was overpainted decades after the artist’s death

The house and collection of Turinese collector Francesco Federico Cerruti will go on show this week

The judge says the work should have raised suspicions, but that he must apply Spanish law

Georgian mansion, the Queen’s official residence in Northern Ireland, has reopened to the public

Branches across the boroughs are now hosting museums' educational programmes

Letter cites Warren B. Kanders's role in company that manufactured tear gas used at US border

Official argues that its return could help boost tourism in an area that has suffered economically from earthquake damage

Complex conservation issues mean it could easily take a decade or more to rebuild the Medieval cathedral

The artist considered the streaks left by gunfire to be part of the Land Art work's evolution

Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is offering curatorial expertise as part of growing network of partnerships with post-Soviet countries

Construction on the long-delayed project is expected to take three to four years

Research centre based on the library of German art historian Aby Warburg plans to open new public spaces in 2022

The initiative is part of a broader reconciliation effort by the government

As Katie Paterson's sand castle project goes on tour, we look at how her Future Library is being made to outlive the artist

Several charitable and crowdfunding campaigns have launched since the fire

The 19th-century daredevil is most famous for crossing Niagara Falls 17 times—once with a stove on which he cooked an omelette

The Ontario native is just the fourth woman to take the post, and the youngest in more than a century

The 19th-century spire has collapsed on the medieval landmark

The Los Angeles Modernist home was designed and lived in by Charles and Ray Eames

Exhibitions in Russia of homegrown artists attract proportionally greater numbers than blockbusters in other countries

Grappling with questions of authenticity, museum 'decommissions' some works from the Panza Collection

The portrait has striking similarities to a recent acquisition by the National Gallery in London

The design spans Wilshire Boulevard and replaces four extant buildings

Museums and cultural institutions in the Brazilian state prepare for closures and cancelled programmes

County officials prepare to vote on the $650m project this week, but the museum’s next incarnation could come at too high a cost for culture

An overheated air conditioning unit was the starting point of the inferno that destroyed the building last year