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Old Master forgeries’ second lives as teaching tools

Museums, universities and other art organisations have tapped into the enduring fascination with forgeries for pedagogic purposes

House featuring erotic art unearthed at Pompeii

Frescoes show, among other saucy scenes, a satyr coupled with a naked nymph

Whitney Museum to waive admission fees for 25s and under thanks to gift from Julie Mehretu

The artist, a member of the museum’s board of trustees, gave more than $2m to expand its free admission policy

North Carolina museum receives $5m in art and funding from artist and philanthropist Carol Cole Levin

The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro will get around 270 works for its collection and funds to renovate its building

Smithsonian receives $40m from the Lilly Endowment

The money will be used for programming related to the semiquincentennial of the US in 2026

'Courageous and resilient individuals': why the Illinois Holocaust Museum is embracing virtual reality to share survivors’ stories

New technologies are helping to protect and preserve the vital eye-witness perspectives of a dwindling but determined community

Will the Warhol Museum’s $80m plan pop?

Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum has big dreams for its Pop District project—but critics say the institution is putting all its soup cans in one basket

'We have been able to act as a safe space': amid war in Gaza, London's Mosaic Rooms announces major expansion plans

The non-profit space dedicated to Arab culture has been a vocal supporter of a ceasefire, and now aims to increase its space and income streams

'Not just the oldest, but the biggest': Alain Dominique Perrin on what to expect from Fondation Cartier's new gallery

Due to open in late 2025, the foundation's president hopes the new Palais-Royal location will draw around a million visitors each year

Florida art organisations face long recovery after hurricanes Helene and Milton

Museums, residencies and other art non-profits on the state’s Gulf Coast are grappling with a range of impacts from the hurricanes

Early Emily Carr watercolour acquired by Canada’s Audain Art Museum

The museum already owns a subsequent, oil-on-canvas work depicting the same subject; both versions of “War Canoes, Alert Bay” will now be displayed together

Darren Walker elected board president of US National Gallery of Art

Walker has led the New York-based Ford Foundation for the past 11 years

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An open letter from Just Stop Oil and Youth Demand: 'we need institutions to confront their responsibilities'

Responding to a recent letter from the National Museum Directors' Council, the campaign groups have proposed a meeting in London's National Gallery—promising to “leave the soup at home”

Iceland plans national gallery overhaul

The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik

ICA Miami buys former de la Cruz Collection building

The acquisition doubles the museum’s space for public programmes, which it will use for a new media gallery, permanent collection displays and more

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino gets $2m donation from PepsiCo

The soft drink company's gift will support the planning, designing and building of the museum's future complex in Washington, DC

Paula Rego paintings replace royal portrait at No 10 Downing Street

In a major re-hang, scenes from Rego’s mural Crivelli’s Garden have appeared in place of portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh

Restoration begins on rare Ludovico Mazzolino painting at the National Gallery of Ireland

The Italian Renaissance master’s few remaining large paintings are a conservation headache, but the museum hopes to show its Crossing of the Red Sea for the first time next year

Despite Venezuela’s turmoil, Caracas art scene remains resilient

In the aftermath of a contentious presidential election and amid ongoing political and economic crises, cultural organisations band together

MFA Boston gets $25m gift to renovate galleries and add staff

The Wyss Foundation’s donation will create more than 5,000 sq. ft of extra space for the museum’s 20th-century art collection

US Supreme Court declines to hear case challenging Smithsonian's restitution of Benin Bronzes

A New York-based organisation had sought to block the artefacts’ return to Nigeria

Musée des Arts Décoratifs director Christine Macel leaves for advisory role amid allegations of dysfunction at the museum

Two years after her appointment, the star curator described her early exit from the Paris museum as “a relief”

New arts district takes shape in Dallas’s northern suburbs

Three institutions have joined forces to transform a corner of the University of Texas at Dallas into a cultural hub

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An open letter from the National Museum Directors' Council: 'these attacks have to stop'

The leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums highlight the "enormous stress for colleagues at every level of an organisation" and "visitors who now no longer feel safe" following series of protester attacks on museum works

Security guards at London's Science Museum and Natural History Museum to strike over pay

The workers, who will start the action at the end of this month, say they are treated as “second-class employees”

Plans for Centre Pompidou outpost in New Jersey are revived, in a new space

The hotly debated Jersey City satellite of the venerated Parisian institution appears to be back on the books after it was "paused indefinitely" in June

Maqdala shield to be repatriated to Ethiopia

Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

UK’s largest artist residency programme launches £7m fundraising campaign

The Delfina Foundation in London, which has hosted more than 450 artists and curators, hopes to secure its base and continue its programmes

$3.9m restoration project breaks ground in Brooklyn to preserve remnants of a 19th-century free Black community

Weeksville Heritage Center’s historic Hunterfly Road Houses will undergo a significant restoration

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Curatorial risks worth taking to foster a sense of belonging in museums

Stephanie Sparling Williams, curator of American art at the Brooklyn Museum, on how Black feminist practices informed the rehang of the museum’s American art collection