Museums & Heritage

Comment | Climate change is forcing tough choices—how much heritage can we save before it is too late?

As increasingly extreme weather threatens cultural sites, archaeologists are turning to technology to try and record them before they are lost forever

The new New Museum: now with twice the space

The New York institution opens its $82m expansion with a huge exhibition of works by more than 200 artists, from Salvador Dalí to Precious Okoyomon

Helen Legg appointed artistic director of London's Royal Academy of Arts

Currently director of Tate Liverpool, Legg will be responsible for the RA’s exhibitions, collection and public programme

500-year-old Aztec ritual offering uncovered in Mexico City

Six volcanic-stone boxes found at Templo Mayor reveal a ceremony linked to Moctezuma I’s imperial expansion

Next edition of Getty's PST Art initiative will focus on Los Angeles’s connections around the Pacific Rim

The initiative’s fourth edition in 2030 will be devoted to transpacific cultural exchange, with grant applications opening to institutions across eight Southern California counties this June

Endemic leaking problems at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater finally come to an end

A $7m conservation project has focused on mitigating the engineering issues of the architect's masterpiece as well as preparing the building for a changing climate

National Gallery of Canada receives donation of 24 works from collector Bob Rennie

The Vancouver-based real estate tycoon has gifted works by two Canadian artists and two US artists to Canada’s national art museum

Snuffboxes stolen in Paris daylight robbery to go on display at V&A

The snuffboxes, made in 18th-century Berlin, come from the Gilbert Collection, and will go on display in a new gallery space at the V&A in South Kensington

Mummies and other human remains held in UK museums raise serious ethical questions, warn scholars

Guardian investigation highlighting 263,000 remains is a wake-up call for government, says Oxford professor

Influential collection of Indigenous art hires former Whitney curator, will open exhibition space in New York

The Gochman Family Collection has hired Laura Phipps as its director and will open a venue in Katonah, New York, this autumn

Self-generated income for UK museums ‘can only go so far’ in filling gaps left by funding cuts, report says

Such income streams are “riskier” according to a new report by the National Audit Office

Pretty in pink: how Toulouse is establishing itself as a top arts destination

Set to overtake Lyons as France’s third-largest city, Toulouse is also gaining cultural momentum, with a boom in visitors to its venues, and renovations of two major museums

Comment | What is the role of art museums in times of civic stress?

Museums and cultural organisations must embrace our vital role in bringing people together, whether friends or strangers

Mary Ceruti

Monumental Rubens ceiling painting revealed once more after two-year renovation

The Flemish master's largest-known work, in London's Whitehall, will now be accessible at close quarters, thanks to a newly-installed lift

‘No one was really interested in finding those works’: major Brazilian art theft still unsolved as statute of limitations expires

Paintings by Monet, Matisse, Dalí and Picasso were snatched in a cinematic heist from Rio de Janeiro’s Museu da Chácara do Céu in 2006

19th-century shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan after 60-year search

Paul Ehorn, an 80-year-old shipwreck hunter, has finally located the long-lost luxury steamer Lac La Belle

Unesco World Heritage buildings in Tel Aviv damaged by Iranian missile strike

Cultural sites and museums in Israel have closed and have been instructed to move their collections into bomb shelters

Liliana Angulo Cortés, director of Bogotá’s Museo Nacional de Colombia, has died, aged 51

Angulo’s work was devoted to decolonising the museum, anti-racism and reparation with a special focus on diversifying narratives to include more Black and Indigenous voices

A new home for Asian contemporary art opens in landmarked building in Manhattan's Chinatown

Founded by Alexander Wang and his mother Ying, the Wang Contemporary debuted at the landmarked 58 Bowery with a MSCHF installation timed to Lunar New Year

Manumission digitisation project reveals grim story of slavery in Brazil

Records show how masters retained power over enslaved people even after emancipation

Miami’s ancient Indigenous sites face an uncertain future

The city’s building boom has revealed many artefacts and human remains, but the pace of development has made study and preservation challenging

‘It doesn’t put walls around everything’: behind the plans for Manila’s new contemporary art centre

The Kontempo Center for Contemporary Art will be led by Reuben Keehan, the longtime curator of contemporary Asian art at the Queensland Art Gallery

Royal Ontario Museum picks new leader

Nicholas R. Bell, who previously led museums in Washington, DC, Calgary and Connecticut, will take the helm of Canada's most-visited museum

‘Lost’ painting reattributed to Rembrandt by Rijksmuseum’s researchers

The Dutch museum has undertaken a two-year study of the 17th-century work "Vision of Zacharias in the Temple"

Vancouver Art Gallery gifted more than 800 photographs by Stephen Shore

The gifted works are from Shore’s “Uncommon Places” series and make the gallery one of the largest collections of his photos in the world

Paris to host first museum devoted to Alberto Giacometti with more than 10,000 artworks and objects

The Giacometti Museum and School will open in 2028 with a vast collection of masterpieces, many of which have never been exhibited

Australia’s coal city flexes culture muscle with major gallery expansion

Redevelopment makes Newcastle Art Gallery biggest regional collection in New South Wales

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Comment | Art is more than its original context

The place where we observe a work of art—and the feelings we have—play a crucial role in our experience

Berlin cathedral opens newly renovated crypt to house coffins of Prussia’s ruling dynasty

Display of sarcophagi of the Hohenzollerns, which span 500 years, includes a new exhibition

2,000-year-old inscriptions found in Valley of the Kings offer fresh insight into Indian presence in Ancient Egypt

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD