Museums & Heritage
University of North Carolina rejects plan for museum to house toppled Confederate statue
UNC Chapel Hill seeks another solution to preserve Silent Sam, described as a “monument to white supremacy”
Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery develops blockchain app to bring Russian art to the world
Digital initiative will invite users to explore and sponsor more than 190,000 works in the collection
Brazil’s National Museum closes the year on a poignant note
With partnerships with the Smithsonian and Google as well as donations, the institution soldiers on
Restorers of Nîmes arena expand their sights
Conservation effort now includes passageways and interior
How pioneering climate-change science dated one of Britain's oldest houses
Landmark Trust's restoration finds that oak timber used to build Welsh house was felled in the winters of 1418-19 and 1420-21
Berlin's 200-year-old replica workshop finds a niche at new Museum Island hub
First-ever exhibition on the Gipsformerei, which copies works for museums and Jeff Koons, will open the James Simon Gallery next summer
Revamped UK gallery gets major Paula Rego retrospective that will tour to Scotland and Ireland
MK Gallery in Milton Keynes will also host a George Stubbs survey
The women taking charge in the Gulf's rising art scene
With many of the region’s museums, fairs and festivals under female leadership, we talk to three key decision-makers
Staff at State Russian Museum take legal action to halt renovation
Senior employees claim the $17m project threatens the Mikhailovsky Palace building and its collections
A Baroque #MeToo heroine, a censored video and an 'unprecedented deal': the year in museum acquisitions
We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018
DR Congo to request restitution of works from former coloniser Belgium
Country's president Joseph Kabila made the announcement ahead of opening of revamped Africa Museum outside Brussels
Protesters stream into Whitney, calling for removal of board vice chairman
They assailed the trustee's business ties to the tear gas fired by US border agents
You have to renovate to accumulate: three South Florida museums expand in very different ways
The Norton Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College show that museum expansions can take different sizes and forms
Pitzhanger Manor, the country estate of Sir John Soane, to open in west London next Spring
The English architect’s “jewel box” weekend retreat has been restored to its original condition
Italian court says Getty Museum must surrender prized bronze Statue of a Victorious Youth
The Los Angeles institution counters that it will keep on fighting to maintain the linchpin of its collection
Analysis: impact on sea-level rise on ten World Heritage sites around the Med
We asked officials at ten major sites how prepared they were—with alarming results
Galleria Borghese director Anna Coliva reinstated after suspension over gym visits
Decision to take case to court prompted a public outcry and an online petition
Goodbye Venice, goodbye Ravenna, goodbye Ferrara, goodbye Carthage?
Many World Heritage Sites around the Mediterranean are at grave risk from sea-level rise by 2100, report says
Forensic examination of all Modigliani works in French museums gets under way
Comprehensive analysis of 29 pieces from ten institutions could be “the best weapon against forgery”
Cambridge Museums to pilot LGBTQ+ tours
Visitors at the Polar Museum might learn incidence of homosexuality among penguins
Albertina Museum director defends landmark gift of Essl collection
Klaus Albrecht Schröder says contemporary art acquisitions, criticised by Austrian Court of Audit, will fill a gap in country’s public museums
Legal challenges remain for restituting African artefacts from French museums
Getting around the inalienability of public collections is dealt with in the report—but it might not work legally and practically
Wallace Collection crowdfunds to conserve Canaletto works in room with many views
Museum aims to clean and analyse all 28 of its vedute paintings of Venice by spring 2020
Hala Wardé dismissed as architect of planned Beirut Museum of Art
Difficulties began when the museum asked HW Architecture to work pro bono
V&A opens up towering replica of Trajan's column in revamped Cast Courts
New-look galleries invite visitors to explore inside Victorian plaster cast of Roman monument
Rain threatens recovery effort at Brazil’s National Museum
Meanwhile, the museum partners with a Chinese tech firm to digitise its catalogued collection
Washington Principles: the restitution of Nazi-looted art is still a work in progress, 20 years on
Major conference in Berlin this week marks anniversary of landmark agreement
Astronomy, unknown trailblazers and failed monuments: new Collective space opens in Edinburgh's old observatory
Works by Dineo Seshee Bopape and Klaus Weber go on show in the revamped 19th-century neoclassical complex
Restored, but demoted: stained-glass window not by Tiffany, expert says
River of Life depiction has been newly reattributed to J & R Lamb Studios
Couple donates $40m for MoMA's renovation and expansion
The museum will name a film centre after Debra and Leon Black





























