Recent discoveries have renewed archaeologists’ concerns that a shipwreck-salvage company has exclusive rights to artefacts aboard a sunken 1715 fleet

Housed in a huge former Citroën garage, the space will be home to modern and contemporary art, including loans from the French museum

Following Rodrigo Moura’s departure, the Buenos Aires museum will create a new chief executive position

With shortened attention spans and constant technological distractions, some museums are getting rid of labels altogether

The Lebanese artist and composer blends sound, technology and sculpture to reference current social, historical and political realities

The spaces, which will launch as part of a 2029 re-development plan, will be funded by a donation from the Blavatnik Family Foundation

The Freelands Foundation will give £100,000 of unrestricted funding to three organisations annually for the next five years—in a drive to re-affirm them “as centres for public education”

Two committee members also resigned after the vote, which unravelled amid allegations of “antisemitism” over Goldin’s support of Palestinians

In accordance with a directive from president Trump, an exhibit detailing the lives and historical contexts of nine people enslaved by George Washington was dismantled

The Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal has received the 2025 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition for a video work created using NYPD surveillance footage from the 1960s and 70s

The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has listed its Napa Valley property for sale for $10.9m

Despite a promised $200m deal with Saudi Arabia, the largest performing arts organisation in the US is taking drastic measures to cover its costs

In protest of federal immigration enforcement officers’ violent campaign in the city, hundreds of local business and organisations will shutter on 23 January

The robbery of the Doesburg Silver Museum is the latest in a spate of precious metal heists in the Netherlands

The 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize honours the famous Addis Ababa building’s decade-long, $57m renovation

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people who lived in the ancient city

Many cultural leaders welcome the move, while the UK National Audit Office reports that the culture department is consistently underspending

Tallant will also direct visual art at the Southbank Centre

For eight years Hill has led the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, which jointly won Art Fund Museum of the Year and hosted the Turner Prize under his tenure

US National Archives documents from the 18th and 19th centuries will tour museums from Kansas City to Seattle

The museum is also exploring the possibility of building affordable housing on its campus

Discoveries by metal detectorists account for 94% of recorded finds in 2024

More than three quarters of eligible employees voted in favour of forming a union with the United Auto Workers, which will represent hundreds of employees

The latest action piles more pressure the museum’s director, Laurence des Cars

A reporter for The Art Newspaper has been on the scene with the Heritage Crime Task Force (HCTF), tracking, identifying and repatriating a wide variety of art and antiquities lost to crime and conflict

The work is being sold from the collection of the Dukes of Bedford to help fund the refurbishment of Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire

Joseph Atsus was sentenced to 48 months in prison for his role in a string of robberies at museums in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and North Dakota

For the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s nomadic debut, the artists Lily Kwong and Tara Donovan have devised projects using nature and light on the grounds of an unusual downtown skyscraper

Works by Ben Nicholson, Vanessa Bell and Bill Brandt were also among works given to the nation in 2024-25 to settle £39.3m worth of tax

The artist says he is concerned about the “physical and environmental risks” posed by sending the work to the British Museum