Museums & Heritage

Excavations for Magazzino Italian Art’s expansion allowed the centre to finally create a rare Michelangelo Pistoletto Land Art piece

The outdoor installation, conceived in 2003 but never executed until now, was unveiled on the Italian artist’s 90th birthday

Austria appoints Ralph Gleis to run the Albertina

The director of Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie will succeed Klaus Albrecht Schröder from 2025

Jonathan Fine on how he aims to make Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum more ‘approachable’ and sustainable

The scientific director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna will take charge of one of Europe’s most important museum organisations in 2025

'Untenable': why the Jewish Museum London is closing its Camden site

The museum plans to find a “pop-up” location by next year before reopening in a permanent venue in 2032

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New Orleans Museum of Art faces public outcry for hiring white curator of African art

The museum is facing heated critique on social media over the appointment of Amanda Maples, a white woman, to oversee its African art collection

Prized Leonardo portrait on the move at US National Gallery of Art amid renovations

The Washington, DC museum will move “Ginevra de' Benci” to a different gallery through early 2024

UK and Greece should share Parthenon Marbles says London mayor Sadiq Khan

The Labour party politician encourages the British Museum and the UK government to advance talks with the government of Greece and Athens's Acropolis Museum

A new organisation wants to empower US museums to reallocate resources from objects to people

Remuseum, launched by the Crystal Bridges Museum with support from the Ford Foundation, has appointed Stephen Reily as its founding director

The kids are alright: newly opened Young V&A aims to be an evolutionary museum for children

Three years in the making, the new satellite of the Victoria and Albert museum has been created “with, not for” its audience—and could now act as a template for other museums.

Female forward: National Portrait Gallery announces women-led partnership with Magnum Photos

Seven portraits of British women by female Magnum photographers will enter the permanent collection of London's newly reopened gallery as it attempts to balance a historic gender disparity

Jonathan Fine is named director general of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum

Currently director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Fine succeeds Sabine Haag in 2025

Warhol and Pollock works stolen by American crime ring may not have been destroyed, authorities reveal

Statements by one member of a crime ring that struck 20 different institutions over two decades have restored hope that not all the loot was destroyed

Tristram Hunt: The Young V&A embraces Generation Alpha

The new Young V&A, opening 1 July, will "build cultural confidence in the capital’s most disadvantaged borough", writes the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Climate activists, protesting against federal charges against their colleagues, rally at the Metropolitan Museum

Joanna Smith and Tim Martin face up to five years in prison after smearing paint on the case and pedestal of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art

Hermitage Amsterdam gets new name and three new museum partners

The museum, which broke ties with the St Petersburg museum after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, will now be known as H’art

Spain’s most ambitious museum project in decades unites royal collection in Madrid

Some are concerned that the new Royal Collections Gallery will be a blow to cultural tourism in the regions where a number of the works previously resided

Ireland sets up panel to advise on return of contested cultural heritage

The committee is led by Donnell Deeny, chairman of the UK government’s Spoliation Advisory Committee

Baltimore Museum of Art acquires LaToya Ruby Frazier installation honouring community healthcare workers

The installation spotlights health workers that helped underserved communities in Baltimore at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic

After leader’s resignation, Canada’s Royal British Columbia Museum faces uncertain future

While plans for an off-site storage and research building move forward, questions remain about the museum’ aging facilities, its community engagement efforts and who will lead it next

Diaries of the UK's first female professional astronomer acquired by Bath's Herschel Museum

The revealing handwritten memoirs of Caroline Herschel, the first woman to receive payment from King George III for her interstellar discoveries, has been acquired by the museum that was once her home

Museum in Philadelphia under fire for hosting far-right group's event

The Museum of the American Revolution is facing pushback for its decision to rent some of its spaces to Moms For Liberty, an ultra-conservative non-profit

Amid record visitation, Harvard Art Museums do away with entry fees

The university’s three art institutions—the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler museums—are now free for all visitors

London's National Portrait Gallery's revamp: the review

Plus, William Edmondson in Philadelphia and Zinzi Minott's Windrush 75 film in London

Ben Luke. With guest speakers Alison Cole and Martin Bailey. Produced by David Clack, Aimee Dawson and Julia Michalska
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British Museum accused of using translator’s work without permission

Vancouver-based Yilin Wang says the London institution included their translations of Chinese poet Qiu Jin’s poems in its latest show—but did not credit her

Louvre interrupts sale of €2.6m record-breaking terracotta sculpture

Under patrimony laws the museum cannot intervene during the auction but can buy up works at the final price

Alexandre Crochet. With additional reporting by Gareth Harris

Austrian government to propose law on returning museum objects acquired in a colonial context

Calling out the injustice of colonialism and following it up with "serious debate and concrete actions" is Austria’s responsibility, says culture secretary

A maritime museum shifts its focus to ocean health

The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut is foregrounding ocean ecology in its first contemporary art exhibition, with new commissions by American painter Alexis Rockman

Gender balance redressed as Tracey Emin creates new 'every woman' front doors for the National Portrait Gallery

The 45 portraits, cast in bronze, have been installed on the entrance to the newly restored London museum

How New York's Hispanic Society is reinventing itself

As the Hispanic Society Museum & Library reopens after a six-year renovation—and two-month strike—its leaders are re-imagining its founder's legacy

Elena Filipovic announced as the new director of the Kunstmuseum Basel

Filipovic joins from the Kunsthalle Basel and will replace Josef Helfenstein