Museums & Heritage
Arizona city accused of censorship for postponing museum exhibitions over Shepard Fairey police brutality print
Municipal officials in Mesa have come under fire for postponing the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum's autumn shows
Europe's 'first museum dedicated to art by women artists' to open in southern France
Former trader Christian Levett's rebranded institution will present works by Joan Mitchell, Howardena Pindell and Cecily Brown among others
Employees at the Art Institute of Chicago museum and school ratify their first union contract
More than 500 workers at the institutions will get raises over 12%
Trespassing tourist wades into Rome's Trevi Fountain
The woman was caught on video filling up her water bottle in the late Baroque masterpiece
'Cancelled' St Petersburg show honouring Timur Novikov finally opens—with censorship
Artists accuse the Russian Museum—which blames technical issues for the delay—of covering up parts of their works
More stolen archaeological treasures return to Italy from the US
The Menil Collection denies claims in an Italian police statement that 60 of the disputed artefacts were housed at the Texas museum
Breuer building's miniature sculpture to stay put after takeover
Sotheby's, which is the new owner of the Madison Avenue building, “will proudly act as stewards” of Charles Simonds’s tiny installation
Layout of ancient stilt village in the Amazon may have been based on Pleiades star cluster
A village in Brazil that was in use for around 500 years, until the 10th century, may have been laid out on a celestial schematic
J.K. Rowling removed from museum’s Harry Potter displays over transphobic views
Rowling has been scrubbed from the galleries of Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture
Chrysler Museum of Art will return disputed sculpture of Indigenous man
The museum has agreed to return the life-size marble statue “Wounded Indian” to the Boston-based Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association
Wildfires tear through Maui, Hawaii, with more than 271 structures damaged
Authorities have reported 36 fatalities while heritage sites, including museums, have been destroyed
Guggenheim Museum staff ratifies its first union contract
With 97% of the vote, museum employees signed their first union contract after two years at the bargaining table
Artist duo Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller open dedicated space for their work in rural Canada
The work and life partners converted a former furniture showroom into a venue for their complex, large-scale installations
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s climate initiative awards $2.7m more in grants and extends programme until 2025
The initiative, which initially was intended to award $10m total in grants, will now give out $15m for ecological projects at art non-profits
Letter to the editor | 'The Tate doesn't stash its art in a basement like a curatorial Dr No'
Responding to a comment piece by the author Simon Jenkins, former Tate curator Simon Wilson says that the institution’s collection is kept in environmentally controlled storage and is mostly made up of works on paper
'Knife attack' leads to evacuation of the British Museum in London
Police confirm a man was stabbed close to the entrance on Tuesday morning
British Museum settles case with translator after using work 'without permission, credit or payment'
The London institution will now reinstate Yilin Wang's translations and is reviewing its permissions policy
Remnants of First Nation village, including 1,000-year-old fish trap, discovered in Canada
A dig on Vancouver Island has revealed archaeological remnants of a 250-person fishing community
Artists and cultural leaders call on British Museum to rename BP Lecture Theatre
An open letter urges museum to follow net zero carbon pledge and fully separate from oil giant, which recently recorded $2.6bn in quarterly profit
Denver Art Museum cut ties with a disgraced donor—but critics say that’s not enough
Benefactor Emma Bunker worked closely with antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford
Swiss court sentences former museum cashier for embezzling more than $1m
The 54-year-old woman used ticket-sale tricks at the Fondation Beyeler near Basel to fund luxury cars and holidays
Historic Kherson cathedral struck by Russian shelling
Landmark site was the burial place of Prince Grigory Potemkin, whose bones were removed by Russian occupying forces last year
Barbican arts chief Will Gompertz appointed director of London's Sir John Soane’s Museum
In a surprise move, the former BBC arts editor will replace Bruce Boucher who will retire after almost eight years at the eclectic institution
Picketing Picasso: strikes threaten to disrupt Museo Picasso Málaga's 20 year anniversary
Staff will stage protests at the museum over a nine-month long labour dispute which will likely delay the opening of 'The Echo of Picasso', a display of the Spanish artist's work, 50 years after his death
Dallas Museum of Art picks Spanish architecture firm for campus overhaul
Madrid-based Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was selected from a shortlist of six firms vying to transform the Texan museum
Tomás Saraceno's Serpentine Galleries show takes on new life as a sanctuary for birds, insects and mammals
Honeycomb-like structures by the artist have welcomed a diverse array of wildlife from within Kensington Gardens over the past two months
Planned Centre Pompidou outpost in New Jersey is ‘a circus of waste and excess’, according to Republican report
A Republican state senator is taking Jersey City’s mayor and New Jersey’s governor to task over the delayed museum project
Dallas Center for Photography to close permanently
The organisation was the only non-profit in north Texas devoted to photography
New York’s Guggenheim Museum raises price of admission to $30, keeping pace with Whitney and Met
A standard adult ticket is now on par with other recent entry fee increases across town
New augmented reality app turns objects at the Metropolitan Museum into digital gaming accessories
The app, Replica, is a partnership with Verizon that lets visitors deploy works from the museum’s collection in the popular game Roblox