From the Los Angeles wildfires to Trump’s policies on culture and heritage, The Art Newspaper's editors analyse the year's biggest stories

This year also brought a disturbing threat to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum

The proposed museum outpost at a nearby nature reserve has been mired in controversy since it was first mooted in 2008

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect plans for the building draw dual inspiration from Las Vegas as a centre of Modernist architecture and a site within a stunning natural landscape

The artist will celebrate Black Chicago using photo archives from Jet and Ebony magazines

A federal judge has rejected attempt by National Trust for Historic Preservation to temporarily halt president’s pet construction project

The Buenos Aires museum has acquired the entire Daros Latinamerica Collection and is planning an expansion to accommodate its new holdings

Archaeologists hope that the space, closed for more than ten years, will create positive change for the country’s heritage

Labour peer Margaret Hodge, who led the report, has suggested new funding proposals based on philanthropic giving

While art-museum architecture remains vibrant across the globe, many US institutions are both uninspiring and unwelcoming

Charity's “Reimagine” programme will fund a variety of initiatives, from developing a new model for provenance research to preserving digital heritage

The exhibition, co-curated by Whitney Museum of American Art staffers Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, will feature artists from 25 states and Puerto Rico, plus “places marked by the reach of US power”

The building, which houses three gallery spaces, will close for a year from June 2028

The artefacts, most dating from the 4th century BC, include a terracotta statue of a woman and elaborate red-figure vessels

Balshaw will see out her nine-year tenure by co-curating the largest-ever survey of the artist Tracey Emin in spring 2026

The cutting-edge institution, which opens tomorrow, fuses museum and library in decommissioned military airport

The Hammer Museum hosts 28 artists' projects while looking back on a tumultuous year in California’s biggest city

The celebrity style luminaries will preside over the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's star-filled fundraiser alongside Anna Wintour

More than 600 objects were stolen from the collection of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, which closed in 2008

The gifted works, by 78 artists, date from the 1950s to today and will be featured in an exhibition in 2027

Archaeologists discovered Palaeolithic fire-making tools in a field in the east of England

From 1 January 2026 onward, MoMA PS1 will be the largest admission-free museum in New York City, thanks to a gift by philanthropist Sonya Yu

The museum's upcoming “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba, Past and Present” has the support of Canadian Palestinian organisations and some Jewish groups, but has been denounced by others who fear it “will ignore key issues”

Stained-glass works by the French artist Claire Tabouret will replace the original windows, which suffered no damage in the fire that destroyed the cathedral’s spire

The 13 works, stolen from the Mário de Andrade Library, were part of a show organised in collaboration with the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

Officially known as Pole Bitvy (Battlefield), Russian state media has described the space as an “interactive art facility”

It was yesterday revealed that that a water leak in the museum's Egyptian antiquities department had damaged hundreds of books

The Public and Commercial Service union says library staff face “increased poverty and debt, with a concurrent rise in health issues”

The ambitious Lima 2035 project will revitalise the Peruvian capital’s architectural heart, a Unesco World Heritage Site, for its 500th birthday

Fearsome 2,400-year-old sculpture of a chimaera has been reinstalled in a dedicated gallery at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze