The Hermitage will also expand its presence in Crimea with a new cultural centre planned in Sevastopol

The New York museum heads into the second half of 2019 with contemporary art takeovers and a balanced budget

The change has been a long-time wish for some leaders at the Los Angeles museum

A Modernist villa and hut in the south of France feature wall paintings by Le Corbusier

High-level diplomacy is being used to secure the artist’s most important works for blockbuster anniversary show in Paris

German city launches €85m plan to prevent further decay of infamous rally grounds

The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family

Works by Frank Stella and Ursula von Rydingsvard take their place in lagoon landscape of New Orleans City Park

America's most famous work of art gets a dedicated $100m exhibition building

As pieces of its ancient Egyptian collection are salvaged, the museum’s director says it can no longer afford storage facilities

The massive work, shown at the 2017 Venice Biennale, re-interprets 19th-century wallpaper depicting native Pacific peoples

Planned Kiran Nadar Museum of Art will open up 6,000-strong collection to the public

Initiative aims to boost Russian expertise in rapidly developing field of preserving contemporary art

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