Museums & Heritage
State lawmakers pull funding for New Jersey's Centre Pompidou outpost
The mayor of Jersey City says the move to scuttle the Paris museum's first US location was politically motivated
Street behind Tate Modern closed after glass panels fall from building
Window panes from the Neo Bankside development, whose residents forced the museum to restrict access to its viewing gallery, smashed into the street
Salisbury Cathedral conservation offers window into William Morris’s workshop
Edward Burne-Jones’s stained-glass work has been removed for conservation for the first time
Getty’s PST Art initiative goes green for science-centric edition
As it prepares for its next Southern California-wide programme launching in September, the Getty is supporting participants’ efforts to reduce their environmental impacts
Belém adds two new museums as the Brazilian city prepares to host Cop30
The Centro Cultural Bienal das Amazônias and Museu das Amazônias join the cultural scene of Brazil's gateway city to the Amazon
Simple steps art museums can take to drive sustainability
Reducing the art sector’s ecological footprint can seem daunting, but art institutions can implement these two impactful changes with relative ease
Amid deaccessioning scandal and falling enrollment, Valparaiso University shuts down campus museum
The university’s plans to sell off works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam and Frederic Church prompted a lawsuit and appeals to Indiana state officials
After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname
The 75ft-long sauropod fossil will go on prominent display when the museum’s new entry pavilion opens this autumn
Cancelling Kehinde Wiley shows ‘does a disservice to the audiences’, anti-censorship group claims
The National Coalition Against Censorship is calling out museum leaders in Miami, Minneapolis and Omaha that cancelled or postponed Wiley’s exhibitions following sexual-assault allegations against him
Stedelijk Museum restitutes Matisse Odalisque to Jewish arts patrons’ heirs
Albert Stern, the former owner, sold the painting “out of necessity” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, the Dutch Restitutions Committee says
Caravaggio the cultural diplomat: Belfast hosts double loan from London and Dublin
The lending of ‘The Supper at Emmaus’ by the National Gallery, under the National Treasures scheme, and ‘The Taking of Christ’, by the National Gallery of Ireland and Jesuit Fathers, is hailed as “north-south-east-west” moment
Welcome to the slow museum, where less is more
In an effort to deepen existing programming and community engagement, some institutions are choosing to stage fewer exhibitions
Legal challenge to preserve Toronto's Ontario Place rejected as mega-spa project moves forward
In addition, it was discovered that the provincial government agreed to pay almost C$1m to make its controversial case for moving the Ontario Science Centre, which closed permanently Friday due to structural decay
MFA Boston director Matthew Teitelbaum will retire after ten-year stint
Teitelbaum has navigated one of the US’s most prominent art museums through a decade of renovations, revamped education initiatives, scandals and shutdowns
UK export bar placed on Louis XIV’s £7.5m table top
The decision was made in the hope that a buyer can be found to “save the” object “for the nation”
Walker Art Center invites visitors to reimagine its galleries
The Minneapolis institution has crowdsourced its rehang—which means a lot more than just new configurations of works
Judge dismisses Holocaust restitution claim to Guggenheim’s Blue Period Picasso
Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs had claimed that “La repasseuse” (1904) had been sold under duress as the couple fled Nazi persecution
Two eco-activists arrested after Stonehenge sprayed with orange powder
The ancient site remains open as curators investigate the damage
Monet to go on sale after Kunsthaus Zurich reaches settlement with Jewish heirs
The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939
Conservation experts deploying to Lahaina, Hawaii, to support recovery from 2023 wildfires
Thanks to a grant of almost $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two experts will travel to Maui to assist affected museums and historic sites
Art Institute of Chicago to return 12th-century temple artefact to Thailand
The Krishna palister once stood along the doorframe of the most important monument to the Khmer dynasty in Thailand
Madagascar's nascent art scene gets boost from businesses
Two entrepreneurs have founded spaces and set up programmes in one of the world’s poorest countries
‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris
More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”
Swiss Bührle Foundation seeks to settle with Jewish heirs on major Impressionist works
Paintings by Courbet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin are to be removed from display at Zurich’s Kunsthaus
UK party manifestos on culture: from more regional loans under Labour to the Greens’ EU pledge
The Conservatives, meanwhile, are focusing on protecting public monuments
Australian blockbuster Pharaoh show could inspire British Museum's revamped Ancient Egypt galleries
Curators from the London institution said they might adopt some of the innovative ways the objects were displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria
Centre Pompidou must not close for five years, say French critics and curators
An open letter has called for the public to have access to the complex during its major forthcoming renovation—and for the role of Paris’s state institutions to be protected as a result
New York's Center for Italian Modern Art to close permanently
The Soho space will close its doors for good on 22 June
Wreck of the ship Ernest Shackleton died on found off the coast of Canada
The famed explorer died aboard the Quest in 1922; the ship sank in the Labrador Sea 40 years later
Germany returns looted antiquities in Berlin’s Altes Museum to Italy
As a “thank you” gesture, Italy is reciprocating with loans from Paestum and Naples