Museums & Heritage
New Wedgwood book traces author's intimate discovery of 18th-century Britain
The “experimental biography” offers fresh perspectives on the celebrated potter
The 2024 Whitney Biennial in five key themes
The Whitney Museum’s flagship contemporary art showcase turns on questions of identity, authenticity and mutability, which play out across more than a handful of interrelated topics
Warhol Museum director Patrick Moore stepping down
The president and chief executive of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, which operates the Warhol Museum, insists that the move is not a result of recent controversies
Denver Art Museum to return 11 artefacts connected to smuggler Douglas Latchford
The repatriations to Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia come as the museum continues to distance itself from Latchford and his late collaborator Emma C. Bunker
Trio of disputed Rubens paintings must stay in the UK, parliamentary panel rules
Heirs of the German banker Franz Koenigs claim the works housed at the Courtauld Gallery should be restituted
Lost building discovered in Sicily’s ancient Valley of the Temples
Archaeologists working at a Unesco World Heritage site in Agrigento have revealed the remains of a previously unknown building
Developer’s $325m gift will help create new museum in Seattle
Richard Hedreen is donating a collection valued at $300m and $25m cash to create an art museum at Seattle University
Redevelopment of Modernist complex on Toronto waterfront alarms residents and preservationists
The provincial government passed legislation to push through a controversial, publicly funded development of Ontario Place
How the US’s Black cemeteries are being made visible once more
A cemetery hidden under a Florida air base is the latest African American burial site rediscovered following decades of erasure
How ancient cave art is rewriting Puerto Rican history
Recent study shows that humans inhabited and made art in the archipelago thousands of years earlier than previously thought
How much should museums pay artists for events such as the Whitney Biennial?
Compensating participants for group exhibitions is an important but taboo subject, as is the fee amount institutions provide
Philadelphia Museum of Art workers stage protest during all-staff meeting
Administrators and unionised workers at the institution remain at an impasse over the issue of longevity pay
Bellevue Arts Museum nears its emergency fundraising goal—but the fight is not over
The museum has already raised more than $200,000 (with the help of a generous reader of 'The Art Newspaper'), and its director is looking to local tech companies as future partners
Two climate activists charged for pouring red powder on National Archives display of the US Constitution
The Valentine’s Day protest was carried out by members of the environmental group Declare Emergency
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s recently closed downtown location to become Navy Seal Museum
The handover of the historical building, with an interior designed by Robert Irwin, marks the end of MCASD’s presence in downtown San Diego
16 new archaeological sites identified in Brazil’s Tocantins state
Newly discovered rock art, including human and animal footprints, is thought to have been created 2,000 years ago
Denver Art Museum workers vote to form a union, a first for an art museum in Colorado
Two thirds of eligible workers voted in favour of forming a union, animated by issues including adequate staffing, career advancement and wages
More works pulled from Barbican show over Gaza 'censorship' row
Artists Yto Barrada and Cian Dayrit will remove their work from major textile survey, after two collectors withdraw their loans over centre's decision to not host talk on Palestine and the Holocaust
Antoine Predock, architect of distinctive museums in the US and Canada, has died, aged 87
His Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Tang Teaching Museum and Tacoma Art Museum were typical of an approach that melded modernism and post-modernism into a characteristically unpredictable aesthetic
A Van Gogh self-portrait goes to Wales
An American almost bought the painting for London’s National Gallery in 1924—but it sold to a French buyer and is now coming to the UK on loan
New Notre Dame spire now topped with golden rooster
Unveiling marks milestone in reconstruction of ravaged cathedral
The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum opens its first (digital) exhibition
Launching on International Women's Day, 'Becoming Visible' focuses on five historical women whose achievements have been glaringly overlooked
Dia Art Foundation embarks on landscape transformation to make Beacon campus climate resilient
Studio Zewde is redesigning eight acres of the property on the banks of the Hudson River to protect against rising water
Budget 2024: UK museum leaders welcome tax incentive announced by Chancellor
Museums and Galleries Exhibitions Tax Relief has been made permanent in this year's spring statement
Workers at Mass Moca go on strike 'indefinitely' amid stalled wage negotiations
It is the second time in two years that unionised employees of the museum have gone on strike
Louvre acquires Chardin’s Strawberries painting thanks to 10,000 individual donors
Famous 18th-century work will tour France, heading to Lens and Brest
Collectors withdraw works from Barbican show after centre pulls its support for talk on Israel-Hamas war
Quilts by Loretta Pettway have been removed from a major textile survey at the London institution over accusations of “censorship and repression”
Happy 100th! The Morgan Library and Museum gets birthday gifts totalling $15m
The money will go towards the institution’s endowment and operational expenses
Jeffrey Gibson and Jennie C. Jones will transform the Metropolitan Museum's outdoor spaces in 2025
The artists' forthcoming façade and rooftop installations at the museum will explore the intersections of identity and art history
Archaeologists in Peru identified one of the oldest megalithic structures in the Americas
The 4,750-year-old circular stone plaza has been under analysis since 2018