Museums & Heritage
Inside the Jewish Museum’s $14.5m renovation in New York City
The institution's revamped third and fourth floors present reconfigured galleries, expanded education spaces and a luminous display of more than 100 menorahs from around the world
First Americans may have sailed from north-east Asia, new research suggests
New research comparing stone tools found at sites across the US and on Japan’s northernmost island suggests a different timeline and mode of travel for the first humans to arrive in North America
Opening date for London’s V&A East Museum announced
The institution will join venues for the BBC, Sadler’s Wells East and London College of Fashion in the new East Bank cultural quarter
Philadelphia Art Museum’s director ousted following divisive rebrand
Sasha Suda had been in the role for three years, but board members complained of a lack of transparency around the institution's recent rebranding
Italy condemns ‘shameful’ comments from Russia after medieval tower collapse
A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson linked the caving in of Rome’s Torre dei Conti—which led to the death of a worker—to Italy’s support for Ukraine, sparking backlash
Lacma staff move to unionise as $720m new building nears completion
The union would represent more than 300 workers at the museum across departments including curatorial, education, publications and more
Chilean retiree returns Ancient Greek marble fragment his father took in the 1930s
Enrico Tosti-Croce’s father, an Italian naval officer, had taken a piece of the Acropolis during a visit to Athens
Netherlands will return stolen ancient statue—featured at Tefaf art fair in 2022—to Egypt
The 3,500-year-old stone head was found to have been “stolen and illegally exported from Egypt” after a rare tipoff from a member of the public
Have security guards’ shifting remits left the Louvre vulnerable to a heist?
A growing emphasis on visitor experience at museums across the world is putting objects at risk, argues a leading security expert
Louvre heist the work of ‘petty criminals’, Paris prosecutor says
The suspects charged so far do not appear to be linked to any high-level crime networks, according to Laure Beccuau
‘Proof that life goes on’: meet some of the people working to rescue—and re-energise—Ukrainian culture
As Russian attacks continue, art is being made, commissioned—and saved—by citizens and organisations
Miami collectors donate 36 works by African and diaspora artists to Tate
Jorge and Darlene Pérez have also funded a “multi-million dollar endowment” to support Tate’s curatorial research
US climate activist gets 18-month prison sentence for splashing paint on Degas sculpture’s case
Timothy Martin was convicted of conspiracy and injuring government property over a 2023 protest action at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Protecting North America’s oldest cave art after an historic flood raised new alarms
Dunbar Cave, home of numerous petroglyphs and pictographs dating back at least 800 years, was submerged by a flood in February—the art was fortunately undamaged, but how can we save it from inevitable future storms?
More than 1,000 objects stolen from Oakland Museum of California in storage facility break-in
Museum leaders and investigators believe stolen objects may soon start to turn up at area pawn shops and second-hand stores
Philadelphia museum opens $20m expansion after winning back cancelled funding from Trump administration
Woodmere Art Museum, which includes thousands of works by generations of local artists, opens a second building to show off more of its collection
Five more arrests made in connection to Louvre heist
The arrests come as two men are charged for gang theft and criminal association
Princeton University Art Museum graduates to expansive new home
The institution has doubled the size of its former space to display more of its collection of 117,000 works, plus newly commissioned sculptures and installations
In historic move, MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs
The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements
Trump fires all members of fine arts commission that reviews construction projects in Washington, DC
The White House plans to install new Commission of Fine Arts members who “are more aligned with President Trump’s ‘America First’ policies”
In Prague, the long-term future of Alphonse Mucha’s ‘Slav Epic’ hangs in the balance
Plans to bring the series of 20 paintings to a Thomas Heatherwick-designed space are on the table—however there are obstacles including a lawsuit in the way
World Monuments Fund launches campaign to raise $60m endowment
The fundraising effort, which coincides with the organisation’s 60th anniversary, was bolstered by a $10m contribution from historian and philanthropist Suzanne Deal Booth
Dubai’s first art museum to include ‘space for fairs’
The private institution, funded by Al Futtaim Group, will be built on a jetty
Workers at smaller museums are more satisfied than colleagues at the biggest institutions, report finds
The latest Museums Moving Forward report on museum sector satisfaction found a few bright spots amid persistent low pay, inequity and burnout
A brief history of the British Museum's central London home
The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long history
Trump demolishes White House’s historic East Wing despite preservationists’ protests
One group called the sudden demolition “a collective loss” while another expressed concern the $300m ballroom that will replace the East Wing “will overwhelm the White House itself”
‘An important piece of Black history’: Topher Campbell's Tate commission at risk of destruction
The artist is urgently seeking a new home for his sizeable sculpture before the end of Black History Month
Five years and $6m later, restoration at New York's Nevelson Chapel is nearing completion
A “perfect storm” of fire-retardant paint, humidity and the Covid-19 lockdown caused major damage to Louise Nevelson’s unique environment of nine painted wooden sculptures inside St Peter’s Lutheran Church in Manhattan
Two suspects arrested over Louvre heist as museum’s remaining jewels moved off site
The delays to updating the museum’s apparently lacklustre surveillance infrastructure, meanwhile, have been blamed on its ambitious renovation plans
Nazi-looted Kirchner watercolour goes to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The work was restituted to the descendants of collectors Ludwig and Rosy Fischer earlier this year