Kathy Hochul has proposed removing certain imagery from the state capitol in Albany

Objects ranging from the 1st century to the 15th century were handed over at the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles earlier this month

Plus, Olmec statuette becomes Kimbell Art Museum’s “most significant work of ancient American art” and Madrid’s Museo del Romanticismo buys an early Goya

A climate activist with the group Declare Emergency has been taken into custody over a paint-smearing incident at the museum last year

Maestà di Assisi, located in the saint's home town, which survived a deadly earthquake in 1997, has been returned to its original luminosity

Donald Tusk’s coalition is revoking cultural leadership appointments made by the previous right-wing regime—but is cancelling Poland’s Venice Biennale artist a step too far?

While California law prevents SFMoMA from wagering the loan of a work on the outcome of the NFL’s championship game, officials there and at the Nelson-Atkins Museum have found a creative solution

Dix’s war painting The Trench, lost during the Second World War, is in focus at the opening

The Association of African American Museums outlines heightened issues facing Black cultural centres, including old infrastructure, coastal locations and lack of access to funds and resources

Stepping Softly on the Earth embodies the themes of sustainability and interconnectedness both in its theme and how it has been put together

The Fowler Museum at UCLA has repatriated seven artefacts that were taken during the Sagrenti War of 1874

The 20th-century displays in the London institution’s Rooms Through Time galleries are being overhauled to reflect the diverse communities of Hoxton, the historic core of east London and one of the UK’s most gentrified areas

The announcement coincides with the 35th anniversary of WMF's efforts at the archaeological park and a new phase of conservation at Phnom Bakheng

A major €90m upgrade of the hallowed Long Room—and its 200,000 books—begins at the end of the year, while its famous Book of Kells gets an immersive makeover

The hires have been supported by the London-based non-profit Asymmetry Art Foundation

After 20 years focused on its Chelsea headquarters, the museum will send its collections and initiatives on the road

Tavares Strachan’s monument is included in major colonialism survey at the Royal Academy

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been revised to expedite repatriation, leading many museums to conceal exhibits in the interim

Digital art venues are a global phenomenon, attracting massive audiences with radical new forms of immersive experiences. Are they a threat or an opportunity for traditional galleries and museums?

This year's milestone will be celebrated with multiple shows around the globe

Taqralik Partridge, an associate curator of Indigenous art since 2022, has stepped down while the Toronto institution is still reeling from the sudden ouster of Wanda Nanibush

Edoardo Almagià, who graduated from Princeton University in 1973, has been connected to a range of antiquities currently in the museum's collection

The London institution says ancient clay drum is in the US but future venues are unconfirmed

An innovative agreement between the Metropolitan Museum, American businessman Leonard N. Stern and the Greek government led to the new display of 161 Cycladic antiquities at the New York museum

The 32 items held in the collections of the two UK museums were taken during wars in the 19th century

Wanda Nanibush left the institution after a letter accusing her of “hate speech” was circulated by the group Israel Museums and Arts, Canada

As the baby-boomer generation of major donors pulls back or dies off, museums are struggling to attract their heirs’ interest

The Ram temple in Ayodhya, consecrated next week, has been the subject of a long and deadly campaign by Hindu nationalist groups

Directors of leading institutions in the country warn of the damage that budget cuts and a scaling back on international collaboration could do to the sector

Authorities also began restoration work on art damaged during the ensuing riots