The museum will mark its anniversary in 2020 by launching a renovation of the Rockefeller Wing and celebrating its permanent collection

The painting, which took the artist less than an hour to paint, was restored for the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition opening in London this week

The museum celebrates the tenth anniversary of the installation, which is still "full of surprises"

Structural engineers and architects were among those restoring the room-sized cast at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says

Sculptor’s Méta-Harmonie II is ready for action after a year-long conservation effort in Basel

The Minneapolis museum’s former director, Olga Viso, announced her departure a year ago

The Battel Hall retable, which survived the fury of 16th-century iconoclasts, bears later scars of graffiti and "witchmarks" against evil spirits

Four solo shows of female artists are part of efforts to “redress the gender balance” in the Middle East, says director

Vast sum outstrips budget for reconstruction of city’s royal palace and creation of Humboldt Forum

She calls on museum to incorporate misogyny into the art historical narrative

Egyptian government hopes vast museum near Pyramids of Giza will win back international tourists

After conservation effort, Museum of Fine Arts decides its hunch was correct

More than 30 conservators will treat paintings and sculptures, seven years after French culture ministry halted reckless cleaning of two panels

Prize goes to firm for restoration of a monument to ‘civic Communism’

The Association on American Indian Affairs says the "first mistake was to call these objects art" and that tribal representatives should have been consulted

Inaugural show honours Belgian photographer and Cartier-Bresson's wife, who created the foundation to preserve their legacy

The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift

We need to rethink our perceptions of an artist or an artefact as having a single, unified or homogenous heritage

New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester

Museum will receive the buildings in former Olympic park for free, director says

French museum takes Cosmopolis biennial platform to southwestern China less than a year before Shanghai outpost opens

Ten museums across America will participate in an inaugural project launched by the Association of Art Museum Directors

Campus expansions at three museums in Texas's biggest city focus on creating civic spaces as well as on showing art

More than a year after opening, the Cape Town museum’s curatorial and educational record has yet to live up to its promise

Hollein took Campbell's old job as director of the Met

Vatican conference on preventive conservation warns of environmental impact of short-term politics

Sheena Wagstaff says the move is part of a “positive, forward-thinking” new regime under Max Hollein’s directorship

Conservator calls in master storyteller to decipher shamanic object

The Nabu Museum collection combines antiquities with Modern and contemporary art