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
The Art Newspaper is looking for a Senior Editor, Museums (New York)
An exciting opportunity has opened up for a talented art journalist to join our US team
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
After winning Super Bowl bet, Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum will receive Thomas Eakins painting from Philadelphia Museum of Art
The work will go on temporary display in Kansas City by late April
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