Museums & Heritage

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago receives $10m gift to support performance programme

The anonymous gift allows the museum to continue commissioning performance-art projects and expand efforts to collect and archive performances

25 years on: how Somerset House became a centre for contemporary art

The London institution had a false start as a museum, but is now thriving with its winning combination of hosting temporary exhibitions and art fairs, and renting studio spaces to creatives

Trump administration seeks to close 34 National Park Service offices, including at only Unesco World Heritage site in Texas

The San Antonio Missions National Historic Park's headquarters are central to the management of five 18th-century missions in and around the city

San Francisco museums brace for layoffs as a result of the city’s budget deficit

The de Young Museum, Legion of Honor and Asian Art Museum may let go of 20% of their security personnel

Masterwork by Mexico's foremost architect Luis Barragán becomes an art centre

La Cuadra San Cristobal, a complex on Mexico City’s outskirts, soft-launched with a project by Marina Abramović

A painting of Venice’s Grand Canal, previously thought to be by Canaletto, has been attributed to his teenage nephew

Specialists at London's Wallace Collection have attributed an 18th-century work to Bernardo Bellotto, who would then have been aged just 15 or 16

Amid desolation in Gaza, heritage experts are pushing a huge reconstruction effort

Political uncertainties may be deterring organisations from funding the €260m worth of restoration work needed to repair and rebuild the Gaza Strip’s wrecked historical sites, but emergency interventions are already underway

Art Institute of Chicago to return 12th-century Buddha sculpture to Nepal

The ancient statue, a museum fixture since the 1990s, will return to its rightful home following a voluntary restitution

Tourist admission fees at UK national museums would be ‘ideologically at odds’ with global collections, says new report

The report also describes the idea of charging international visitors as “logistically complex”

University College London’s art museum, housing works by Paula Rego and J.M.W. Turner, secures temporary home after academics protest

The news follows fears that the university’s bicentenary plans would force the museum’s collection into storage—though concerns remain over its long-term future

Turmoil at Italy’s museums as ticketing contracts change hands

The announcement of new providers for services at leading cultural institutions has prompted an outcry from workers and opposition politicians

A battle for memory is playing out at Russia's Gulag Museum

As the Moscow institution is temporarily closed and its director, Roman Romanov, is dismissed, fears grow that Russia’s past is being glossed over

Art Museum of the Americas cancels shows of Black and LGBTQ+ artists amid Trump’s DEI crackdown

The Washington, DC institution had been due to open exhibitions about queer identity and the African diaspora in the Americas this month

The Grand Egyptian Museum is due to finally open on 3 July, here’s a sneak peek

The Art Newspaper took a tour of this treasure-stuffed colossus and was impressed by its gargantuan scale and coherent layout

‘All about grief and mourning’: Sydney museum repatriates human remains to Papua New Guinea

Amid colourful ceremonies, Chau Chak Wing Museum returned 16 human skulls to the inhabitants of six villages

Guggenheim Museum lays off 20 employees

Cuts at the New York institution will affect 7% of its staff

Lucas Museum of Narrative Art’s director will depart before institution opens

George Lucas, the “Star Wars” film-maker and co-founder of the museum, will take on a programming role following Sandra Jackson-Dumont’s departure

On Parade: Berwick-upon-Tweed communities go up in lights, ten times life size, on historic Hawksmoor building

Matthew Rosier's film "Parade" projects border town's diverse community back to itself as National Heritage Lottery Fund awards £4.5m grant for restoration of Berwick barracks as arts centre

National Gallery launches new learning centre, the first bicentenary capital project to open to the public

The architect Hannah Lawson and the London museum’s education chief Karen Eslea consulted school children, teachers and parents to give the Roden Centre for Creative Learning a welcoming character

British Museum and Science Museum under increasing pressure to scrap BP sponsorship after oil giant drops climate targets

The pair are the last two major cultural institutions taking funding from fossil fuel companies

As Siena’s art takes to the world stage, the Italian city is undergoing a renewal

New York just closed an exhibition on Sienese art and London is about to open another. But there is also plenty of activity in Siena itself, with a museum renovation and research shedding new light on some famous works

Manhattan’s New Museum will reopen this autumn following $82m expansion

The new seven-storey, 61,930 sq. ft building will effectively double the museum’s gallery space

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A descendant of people trafficked aboard the slave ship Clotilda on learning from history’s unsung heroes

Jeremy Ellis’s ancestors were among the 110 enslaved people who survived the last known Transatlantic voyage in 1860

Brooklyn Museum workers protest mass layoffs and alleged union-contract breaches

At least 100 people, including local politicians, gathered on Tuesday night to put pressure on museum leadership

Chanel becomes sponsor of Norton Museum of Art’s artist residency programme

Florida’s largest art museum joins forces with the luxury fashion brand to host three artists this year

Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution

Per the terms of the Met’s agreement with the Greek government, the cast-bronze antiquity will return to New York next year for a special exhibition

Orlando Museum of Art and family of late director fired over Basquiat forgery scandal drop lawsuits

After Aaron De Groft’s death last month, the museum and his family do not find it “prudent or cost effective” to continue litigation

Cattelan's £4.8m gold toilet stolen in five minute raid and split into smaller parts, court hears

The court case of three men charged with the 2019 theft has begun in Oxford, and is expected to last four weeks

Three years on from Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s art world figures are keeping up the fight for their country’s culture

From an artists’ handbook addressing life under occupation to exhibitions combatting colonial narratives, the examples of resistance are various—despite growing pressure caused by US funding cuts