Museums & Heritage
Dallas Museum of Art will undergo $6m repairs to fix damage from 2022 rainstorm
The museum's Impressionist collection galleries and interactive education facility have been closed since for more than two years
Ancient petroglyph irreparably damaged in Mexico
Someone attempted to dislodge a drawing of a hand from a rock with more than 150 motifs dating back thousands of years
National Trust announces plans to address UK's mental health crisis
As part of its ten-year strategy, the heritage organisation will work with mental health charity Mind
Hawaiian tsunami museum fights to stay open amid economic woes
The Hawai'i shoreline fixture is struggling to keep its doors open amid post-pandemic costs
Police seize Sally Mann photographs at Texas museum amid accusations of child pornography
A 1990s culture-war déjà vu at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth—with the same photographs causing a stir decades later
Deadly wildfires destroy Los Angeles art spaces as museums and galleries close
Even art spaces far from the raging wildfires have closed and cancelled events amid a citywide state of emergency, dangerous smoke and high winds
New York takes first step towards landmarking Breuer building's interior
Sotheby’s, which bought the former home of the Whitney Museum last year, promises to respect the building’s “architectural significance” in its upcoming renovations
Los Angeles wildfire reaches Getty Villa grounds but ‘staff and the collection remain safe’
Cultural organisations around the Los Angeles have been forced to close and some "expect the worst"
Trump claims he will replace the head of the US National Archives
The agency’s previous leader raised concerns in 2022 about Trump’s handling of documents after his first term in office
Hamburg art centre condemns ‘politically motivated vandalism’ of art installation referencing Palestine
The Kunstverein in Hamburg said the incident is currently being investigated by authorities as a hate crime
Behind Ukraine and Russia's battle over 19th-century seascape painter
Both countries lay claim to Ivan Aivazovsky and his works, many of which were in Crimea when it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014
New York’s Climate Museum secures permanent location
The new, 24,000 sq. ft museum will be part of a recently announced $1.35bn mixed-use development near Hudson Yards
Jimmy Carter, the US president and Renaissance man who believed in art and rock and roll, has died, aged 100
The Southern Baptist peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, was a dedicated amateur portraitist and made a deep cultural impact when in office
SFMoMA fires contemporary art curator Eungie Joo amid misconduct allegations
Joo had joined the museum in 2017 as its first contemporary art curator and most recently organised an ambitious project by Kara Walker
New perspectives: Annabelle Selldorf brings a fresh angle to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing
A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square
How Amsterdam’s Drift Museum is working to create more energy than it uses
Sustainability features at heritage-listed former railway factory will include heating system that stores summer warmth for use in the winter months
New report chronicles challenges in making visible the sites of historic US protests
The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s latest "Landslide" report marks a shift from the annual initiative’s usual focus on threatened landscapes
Workers at the Noguchi Museum push to form a union
After months of protests in solidarity with Palestine and against a new dress code banning workers from wearing keffiyehs, the Queens institution's staff are organising for "better conditions"
The most exciting art museum openings and expansions of 2025
The construction of Saadiyat Cultural District is due to be completed, while the Studio Museum in Harlem will unveil its new 82,000 sq. ft building
London-based Studio Weave wins competition to revamp British Museum entrance
New welcome pavilions and a landscaped forecourt are scheduled for completion early 2026
Could Israel’s shuttered embassy in Dublin become a gallery for Palestinian art?
Fresh off a pop-up show in Ireland, the director of the Connecticut-based Palestine Museum US hopes the former Israeli Embassy could become a permanent European outpost
Controversial Ontario Place redevelopment and mega-spa could cost taxpayers billions
A long-awaited report from Ontario’s auditor general finds that the redevelopment plan for Toronto's modernist landscape is “not fair, transparent or accountable”
Robert Smithson’s famed Land art piece Spiral Jetty added to US National Register of Historic Places
The 1,500ft-long, coiling earthwork in Utah’s Great Salt Lake is arguably the best known example of Land art
Strike at Seattle Art Museum ends as visitor services staff ratify first contract
The new contract raises the base hourly wage and reinstates a pre-pandemic retirement programme
Houston's Rothko Chapel reopens after hurricane damage is repaired
The Texas pilgrimage site for devotees of Abstract Expressionism returns just in time for the holidays
1,375-year-old pyramid structure found in Hidalgo, Mexico
Highway road work has uncovered an ancient civilisation’s ceremonial centrepiece
Polychrome 17th-century statue that was stolen from a church in 2007 is returned to Mexico
The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery
Zoé Whitley to step down as director of London's Chisenhale Gallery
Whitley’s five year tenure resulted in 15 exhibitions
Louise Bourgeois’s mammoth spider will return to Tate Modern for the gallery's 25th anniversary
A new “capsule collection” trail will also feature works by Mark Rothko and Dorothea Tanning
Women-only art installation reopens at Mona, allowing some men to enter—and learn about housework
Kirsha Kaechele' Ladies Lounge will be reinstalled at the Hobart museum for a month after the supreme court overturned a ruling that the work was discriminatory