Museums & Heritage

Unionised Whitney Museum workers ratify their first contract after 16 months of negotiations

The deal means significant pay increases for hourly wage earners and salaried employees alike, and extends some benefits to temporary workers

Native American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will be the first artist to curate a show at the US National Gallery of Art

Smith’s exhibition will include works by around 50 living Native artists, including several that have recently been acquired by the NGA

Dealer who has given 1,677 works to create new French museum does ‘not expect a dime from the donation’

Conditions outlined for gift from Claude and France Lemand for new museum at the Arab World Institute in Paris

London's Royal Academy of Arts offers young visitors half price entry

Museum's new 25 & Under ticketing scheme for temporary exhibitions is being subsidised by the art collectors Batia and Idan Ofer

Museum of London report reveals museum class divides

The new study explores the labour conditions of London’s lower-income workers during the pandemic

The oldest art institution in São Paulo adds a $16m wing for contemporary art

Pinacoteca de São Paulo's new building opens with a show by Haegue Yang

Dismissal of billionaire collector and MoMA trustee Leon Black’s racketeering lawsuit upheld

Black claimed he was the victim of a conspiracy to push him out of his private equity firm

Art Gallery of Ontario reveals designs for new $73m modern and contemporary art wing

Construction of the 40,000 sq. ft space, dubbed the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery, is expected to begin in early 2024, with an opening scheduled in 2027

Collector Mitchell Rales donates $1.9bn to Glenstone, the museum he and his wife co-founded near Washington, DC

With the enormous gift, the foundation that supports Glenstone now has an endowment of $4.6bn, roughly equivalent to that of the Metropolitan Museum

Secrets of Manhattan's Hispanic Society revealed after six year renovation

The first phase of the redevelopment of the New York museum of art from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries will open in April

In Burkina Faso and Mali, pilot scheme builds defences against illegal trafficking of cultural antiquities

Icom and Aliph’s $250,000 project is providing training and security measures for 22 museums in countries ravaged by war

Critics line up to condemn Science Museum’s sponsorship deal with Adani Green Energy

Museum is accused of “reprehensible” behaviour in allegedly allowing crisis-hit parent company Adani to greenwash its huge fossil fuel business

Shake-up announced for the UK’s £300m National Lottery Heritage Fund

New builds—inspired by the so-called ‘Bilbao effect’—will now be discouraged as the chair of the organisation, Simon Thurley, outlines a change of priorities in favour of long-term benefits

More than $55m raised toward Smithsonian’s planned American Women’s History Museum

The museum, one of two new Smithsonian museums in advanced planning stages, garnered major support from Walmart heiress Alice Walton, fashion designer Tory Burch and others

Two San Francisco museums launch joint curatorial position focused on art of the African diaspora

The new position, created by SFMoMA and the Museum of the African Diaspora, will involve the development of exhibitions and other programmes at both institutions

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Full scale of damage to Turkish and Syrian heritage emerges after devastating earthquakes

Many archaeological landmarks and religious sites in the region have been heavily damaged or destroyed

After a landmark election, will Nigeria now invest in its museums?

Nigeria’s art market has exploded in recent years—a newly elected government may now fund and build a museum sector

Italy to open first museum of fascism

Curators of the controversial Salò institution say museum will “neither demonise nor defend” fascist leader Benito Mussolini

Toronto museum returns objects to family of famous Cree leader

The Royal Ontario Museum returned an ornate saddlebag and ceramic pipe to descendants of Poundmaker

Ancient ritual complex uncovered in Peru

The 1,200-year-old complex, which includes a massive platform topped with a temple, is associated with the Wari civilisation that thrived from AD600 to AD1000

A museum in a cargo lorry: Tate takes art on the road in Liverpool

The new Art Explora 'Mobile Museum' is on a ten-week tour in the north of England to make art more accessible

Smithsonian to display 77 looted artefacts from Yemen in shared stewardship agreement

The artefacts will go on view at the National Museum of Asian Art, rather than be returned to Yemen, due to the ongoing humanitarian crisis there

Art Bridges acquires $4.5m Robert Colescott painting at Bonhams auction

The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton

Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s $75m expansion to create new, free spaces

The ambitious campus revamp will include construction of an admission-free entry pavilion and “sustainable” gardens designed in consultation with a new Indigenous advisory council

Los Angeles museums are conducting the US’s biggest free admission experiment

Multiple free-admission policies have been introduced in the Los Angeles area—and early results are looking promising

Hogarth's forgotten stairwell: hidden in a 900-year-old London hospital are painter's vast canvases

Works will be restored and opened to the public to mark 900th anniversary of the St Bartholomew’s Hospital

Even restituted artefacts—like Benin bronzes—need export licences from UK, says arts minister

Formal requirement for government licences may well prove to be yet another obstacle to a loan agreement for the Parthenon Marbles

Britain's oldest prayer beads—buried more than 1,000 years ago—to be displayed in new museum on remote island

It is one of several artefacts making their first public appearance at Lindisfarne Priory