Museums & Heritage
Florida educator ousted for showing students Michelangelo's David visits sculpture in Florence
Former Tallahassee Classical School principal Hope Carrasquilla travelled to Italy and met with the Galleria del'Accademia's director
Art world AI-nxiety: what is artificial intelligence and how are artists using it?
Plus, the AI photography scandal at the Sony World Photography Awards
Climate protestors attack Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
A man and a woman have daubed red and black paint on the display case containing 'Little Dancer'
Tate Modern announces new director as Oslo museum chief Karin Hindsbo
Pressing challenges include maintaining visitor numbers and developing the institution's climate response
50 US museums receive grants and art from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
As the late artist's 100th birthday nears, his foundation is undertaking the largest philanthropic project in its history
Sudan conflict: pro-democracy artists under attack and museums at risk of looting, sources say
Leading artists and museum professionals raise fears as violence erupts in Khartoum
‘Duplicative’ or discarded? Whitney's sale of more Hopper works from historic bequest comes under scrutiny
Questions resurface over New York museum’s rationale for consigning works by the artist to auction
Brooklyn Museum workers hold rally at fundraising gala
Members of the museum’s union, who have been in negotiations with administration over their first contract for more than a year, handed out leaflets to attendees arriving for the annual Artists Ball
France's long-awaited restitution policy is finally here
Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez
Nigeria transfers ownership of Benin Bronzes to royal ruler—confusing European museums' plans to return artefacts
The move may complicate plans to house the works in future museums such as the Edo Museum of West African Art
Monumental Cold War-era Karl Marx mosaic restored in east Germany
Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany
Amid an unfolding civil war, unique Christian wall paintings have been found in hidden chambers of an ancient Sudanese city
Art found by chance in Old Dongola shows King David of Makuria kissing the hand of Jesus, a remarkable example of Christian art now threatened by unfolding violence in Sudan
Lawsuit filed to block university's sale of Georgia O’Keeffe painting to fund dormitory renovations
Indiana-based Valparaiso University is reportedly hoping to raise $20m with the sale of works by O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam and Frederic Church from its museum’s collection
Lacma supporters raise $2m and make ten acquisitions for the museum, including Nick Cave Soundsuit and Hawaiian queen’s bedcloth
The museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend provides a major boost to its holdings
Cleaner's cupboard becomes a walk-in camera obscura: hidden backrooms of London's V&A transformed into new photography centre
Seven dedicated galleries will now exhibit the full range and depth of the museum world’s oldest photography collection
National Endowment for the Humanities awards over $35m in grants
The agency's grants will support a range of arts and heritage initiatives, including major exhibition projects at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Building Museum and elsewhere
The museum bees pollinating Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Museum maintains two rooftop beehives, and several more New York museums are joining the apiculture craze
Frick Collection will vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue building in early 2024
The institution will reopen in its historic mansion, which is undergoing a $160m renovation, by the end of 2024
Riddle of ancient Egypt’s ‘impossible’ sculpture is finally solved—in Scotland
Pioneering research by a National Museums of Scotland curator finds statue reflects a village of eminent tomb-makers
Dusseldorf settles with Jewish dealer’s heirs on portrait that hung in mayor's office
Wilhelm von Schadow’s painting 'The Artist’s Children' was once owned by Max Stern, who fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s
Dallas Museum of Art acquires 12 works at Dallas Art Fair with annual gift
The museum spent $100,000 to bolster its collection thanks to funding from the Dallas Art Fair Foundation
Brazil’s Red List gives green light to federal action on heritage smuggling
President Lula’s government has joined forces with Icom in an effort to halt illegal trafficking of the country’s ancient artefacts
Now is the time to honour not censor Russia’s dissident artists
The director of the Zimmerli Art Museum, which is home to the world's foremost collection of Soviet nonconformist art, says recent calls to censor all Russian art in light of the war in Ukraine oversimplify the issue
Back after 2,000 years: the Roman gateway to Britain
The Richborough fort in Kent, the base for the Roman invasion of Britain in 43AD, reopens to the public
Former Art Institute of Chicago employee pleads guilty to embezzling $2m from the museum
Michael Maurello may face up to 20 years in prison for his financial misdeeds at the museum
Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Arts closes permanently despite last-minute fundraising effort
The New Mexico institution, established in 1979, has shut its doors, seemingly forever
Milan authorities must hire conservationist after struggling to clean statue damaged by climate activists
Italian officials have approved draft bill to bring in tougher sanctions for protestors who target heritage
Florida’s Norton Museum acquires John Singer Sargent portrait of socialite who sponsored Amelia Earhart
Sargent’s painting of Amy Phipps Guest, made at the peak of his success as a society portraitist, was gifted to the West Palm Beach museum by her grandson and his family
Nigeria’s hotly-anticipated Edo Museum of West African Art: newly appointed curator Aindrea Emelife discusses her plans
Scholar discusses restitution issue, saying that "no culture has an absolute view on looking at the world"
San Francisco curator details three previously unattributed Botticelli drawings
Research for a forthcoming exhibition at the Legion of Honor museum has led a curator to add three new entries to Botticelli's oeuvre