The Jewish Australian artist Nina Sanadze plans to turn the petals into “something that lasts for centuries and keeps the memory”

The closure last year of the Cape Town museum has “left people angry and deeply suspicious”

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

From the opening of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, New York, The Art Newspaper's editors look ahead to next year's biggest stories

The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism

Must-see exhibitions coming this year include ‘Van Gogh’s Sunflowers’ in Philadelphia and ‘Yellow: Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ in Amsterdam

The White House has given the Smithsonian Institution until 13 January to provide a trove of materials about planning and procedures at eight of its museums

More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside the Florence museum demanding an end to “low-paid and precarious work”

Alongside her work at organisations such as New York’s Just Above Midtown gallery and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in Florida, Goncharov was also an artist

Staff at the Paris museum yesterday staged another walk out, citing concerns around working conditions and infrastructure

M HKA played a crucial role in linking emerging and established forms of art

Museums may need to rethink their content and find new ways to engage with young fans online

Historic embroidery will be protected from damage or loss under taxpayer-backed scheme

Authorities plan to extend the $28bn rail project and relocate Maya structures

Assisi fresco celebrated by Giorgia Meloni was reduced to tiny fragments in 1997

Public murals, sculptures and reliefs from the 1950s that adorned an earthquake-damaged building are now in storage

Researchers at the museum concluded that the three artefacts were removed from Cambodia during the civil war of the 1960s and 70s

Nukus Museum’s vast cache of Russian avant-garde and national folk art is driving cultural tourism

Spending most of his life in slavery, David Drake was denied the right to benefit from his own creativity and so to be an artist in every sense—until now

The repatriations are linked to long-running investigations into looting at Bubon and other archaeological sites, as prosecutors in New York step up pressure on museums and collectors

The new union, which 96% of eligible employees voted for, will represent more than 300 employees

For his new show, the multidisciplinary artist drew inspiration from 19th-century watercolours of Indigenous communities by the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer

From the Los Angeles wildfires to Trump’s policies on culture and heritage, The Art Newspaper's editors analyse the year's biggest stories

This year also brought a disturbing threat to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum

The proposed museum outpost at a nearby nature reserve has been mired in controversy since it was first mooted in 2008

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect plans for the building draw dual inspiration from Las Vegas as a centre of Modernist architecture and a site within a stunning natural landscape

The artist will celebrate Black Chicago using photo archives from Jet and Ebony magazines

A federal judge has rejected attempt by National Trust for Historic Preservation to temporarily halt president’s pet construction project

The Buenos Aires museum has acquired the entire Daros Latinamerica Collection and is planning an expansion to accommodate its new holdings

Archaeologists hope that the space, closed for more than ten years, will create positive change for the country’s heritage