Museums & Heritage
Brooklyn Museum director’s home targeted by pro-Palestine activists
The entrance to museum director Anne Pasternak’s apartment building was vandalised with red paint and a banner describing her and the museum as a “White-Supremacist Zionist”
Migrant museum on the Italian island of Lampedusa closes after seven years
The Museum of Faith and Dialogue, which could not afford the new €10,000 annual rent, displayed items found at sea following shipwrecks
Fire guts historic Toronto church, destroying its Group of Seven murals
A restoration campaign for St Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto is already underway, but its historic art is lost forever
Amid backlash, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will modify exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish founders
Organised in response to criticisms that its initial display did not acknowledge Hollywood’s Jewish origins, the exhibition now faces charges of antisemitism from Jewish activists
What do the Magna Carta and five small, costly, enamelled brackets have to do with each other?
A Paris dealer wants €50,000 for them, deadline the end of 2024, and a crowd-funding appeal has been launched in Italy
Campaign launched to stop demolition of Museum of London for office building
Although the controversial project has been green lit, it may take years before building work begins
Four must-see exhibitions during Art Basel
From Precious Okoyomon's nightmarish animatronic bear to a global survey of Black figurative painting, sci-fi chairs and Dan Flavin
Staff at the American Folk Art Museum vote unanimously to form a union
The institution’s new union, formed under UAW Local 2110, will represent workers across departments including curatorial, information technology, retail and more
Palm Springs Art Museum launches permanent LGBTQ+ programming
The California institution’s new Q+ Art initiative is the first of its kind in the US and includes exhibitions, public programming, acquisitions and awards
Fire that damaged Israel Museum being investigated as arson
The fire is believed to have been set at three different sites near the museum building
New arts complex to open in Philadelphia with help from Theaster Gates
The collectors Michael Forman and Jennifer Rice will both house their extensive collection there and engage the working-class neighbourhood where they bought almost a whole city block
MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting sold to the Nazis, appeals court rules
The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War
UK General Election | ‘End the culture of culture washing': art world figures express hopes and fears for the forthcoming vote
We spoke to cultural historians, former ministers and museum directors about the changes they hope to see for the culture sector—and crucially, who they will vote for
Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters rally at Brooklyn Museum
Demonstrators took over the lobby and exterior of the museum on Friday afternoon, calling for transparency and divestment regarding financial ties to Israel
Up in arms: Mexican archaeological bureau denounces damage to at least one mummy in Guanajuato’s famous museum
Local authorities respond that mummy deterioration is not new and even inevitable given a history of visitors “touching them or taking souvenirs, such as bits of clothing”
Legal fight brewing over Pérez Art Museum Miami’s digital billboard
Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard
New UK digital art school provides artist workshops and supplies for NHS mental health units
Online sessions will be led by artists such as Sutapa Biswas and Sarah Dwyer
Penn State university's art museum reopens in new $85m building that seeks to blend art with nature
The Palmer Museum of Art in the city of State College, Pennsylvania, has nearly doubled its space
Leigh Bowery, Emily Kam Kngwarray and Lee Miller—Tate reveals its 2025 exhibition programme
A blockbuster show focused on Turner and Constable plus a vast survey of Nigerian modernism are also in the pipeline
Cleveland Museum of Art will return ancient statue to Libya
The two-foot-tall artefact, which hails from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, will remain on view in Cleveland for "a few years"
Southern Brazil’s museums and historical sites threatened by torrential rains and flooding
In the past month, record rainfall has wreaked havoc on the state of Rio Grande do Sul
Frida Kahlo museum clarifies that Madonna did not visit and try on the artist's clothes
Madonna may have tried on Kahlo's clothes during a previous visit to her family home
Singapore’s guitar-strumming new prime minister sparks hopes of more artistic support and freedom
Lawrence Wong has shown signals that he intends to support arts-related initiatives with significant funding, though entrenched societal attitudes mean concerns about censorship remain
UK's Imperial War Museum plans to break with two unions
MPs have joined a campaign to stop the museums group from derecognising two of its three unions
How radical transparency saved a US museum
Kate Casprowiak Scher, the Bellevue Arts Museum’s new permanent director, explains that candour about the institution’s finances helped bring the kunsthalle in suburban Seattle back from the brink
New York branch of photography museum Fotografiska will close and relocate
The museum will vacate its historic premises on Park Avenue South this autumn
Italy seizes Giuseppe Verdi's villa and plans to turn it into a museum
The 19th-century property, where the Italian composer wrote 'La Traviata', was due to be auctioned, but the sale never happened
Woman sues Walker Art Center after being told she could not breastfeed in a gallery
It appears the museum’s own employees were unaware of the policy that “parents are free to nurse children wherever”
How an artist and curator duo are transforming Addis Ababa with their eco-driven projects
Elias Sime and Meskerem Assegued are due to open their biggest building project so far—a cultural centre in the mountains—this autumn
‘A brutal adjustment’: Argentine cultural workers feel the pain of president Milei’s cuts
Mass layoffs at the national library and the defunding of a critical film institute are just the beginning, the administration has promised