Museums & Heritage
Iraq's important archaeological sites under threat from real-estate development
Tell Al Sayyagh, in the heart of the ancient city of Kufa, is in danger because of the country’s investment law, which many say is being abused
Water leaks into the Louvre’s Cimabue exhibition, landing close to the master’s greatest early painting
A violent hailstorm on Saturday caused water to drip into the room hosting the important show, but “no works were damaged”, a spokesperson says
Art Institute of Chicago’s director on leave amid investigation into airplane incident
James Rondeau, the museum’s president and director, is on voluntary leave after reportedly removing his clothes on a flight from Chicago to Munich
MoMA acquires works featured in monumental Adam Pendleton installation
The museum has acquired 35 pieces—including videos, drawings and paintings—that made up Pendleton’s sprawling atrium installation in 2021-22
Megasculpture workshop and landscape reclamation drive Storm King Art Center regeneration
The biggest sculpture park in the US starts its visitor season with a bang—unveiling a first-ever conservation and fabrication building, major relandscaping, and monumental works by Kevin Beasley, Sonia Gomes and Dionne Lee
First look: the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ rehang at London's National Gallery
The reopening of the Sainsbury Wing on 10 May will allow the gallery to show nearly 40% of its collection. The Art Newspaper took an early tour
Comment | Losing federal funding for emergency heritage conservation in the US is a disaster
The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation’s National Heritage Responders programme has channelled federal funding and support from local organisations to help communities struck by natural disasters to preserve their culture
Masterworks from Jacob Rothschild collection go to London's National Gallery and V&A under acceptance in lieu scheme
Guercino’s “King David” and a rare relief by John Deare have been allocated to the London institutions in lieu of inheritance tax on the estate of the celebrated financier, philanthropist and heritage leader
Lacma acquires self-portrait by long-overlooked female Old Master
Virginia Vezzi's "Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" is one of the 112 pieces acquired during the museum's annual Collectors Committee Weekend
As Kazakhstan cautiously strengthens ties with western Europe, new art venues herald a change of direction
Due to open in September, the Tselinny Center and the Almaty Museum of the Arts are both financed by Kazakh entrepreneurs
Two new art centres set to open in Venice
The new San Marco Art Centre will be based in St Mark’s Square from next month, while the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation will take over the Dorsoduro building
Chicago's Intuit Art Museum set to unveil $10m renovation
The small but mighty museum for outsider art is reopening after a two-year overhaul
MFA Boston to return Benin Bronzes to wealthy donor, close gallery
The unusual move follows years of negotiations between the museum, the collector and the Kingdom of Benin
Sistine Chapel to close for conclave preparations
Other cultural sites have also been steadily shutting down to visitors as the Vatican marks the death of Pope Francis
Holy ground: why Persian carpets played an important symbolic role in the funeral of Pope Francis
For over 600 years carpets from Turkey and Iran have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists, including Andrea del Verrochio, to indicate a carefully defined, sacred space
Judge orders the Art Institute of Chicago to restitute Nazi-looted Schiele drawing
The latest development in the ongoing dispute over a 1916 portrait believed to have been stolen from Fritz Grünbaum by the Nazis
Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló is reaping the rewards from its continual reinvention
The Barcelona museum's latest revamp has added 2,000 sq. m for immersive exhibitions
Nelson-Atkins Museum picks architect for $160m expansion
The museum in Kansas City has tapped the firm Weiss Manfredi to overhaul its campus
Taiwan's newest art institution taps into a flourishing local scene
The New Taipei City Art Museum, which opens to the public on 25 April, is part of a drive to distinguish the municipality from the neighbouring capital
Swiss Bührle Foundation reaches settlement with heirs of Jewish collector over Manet’s ‘La Sultane’
The settlement with the successor of Max Silberberg, of which details are confidential, allows the painting to remain on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich
Jeremy Deller to close National Gallery's bicentenary celebrations with ‘first of its kind’ parade and party
The event, planned to take place in London's Trafalgar Square on 26 July, will draw folklore and traditions from across the UK
Spencer Finch and Lindsay Adams to create large-scale commissions for Obama Presidential Center
The centre in Chicago will feature a tiled installation by Finch and a bright, abstract composition by Adams
World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the Catholic church and custodian of the Vatican’s treasures, who has died, aged 88
The election of the new pope will be closely watched by supporters of the Argentinian pontiff’s legacy looking for a successor who will act as a progressive voice, highlighting global climate crisis and the needs of immigrants and the poor
Democratic lawmakers urge J.D. Vance to save the Smithsonian from Trump
Four members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to the US Vice-President to articular their "great concern over [the Smithsonian's] future"
Canadian art museum gets $36m funding boost for expansion from provincial government
The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the country’s largest museum devoted to Canadian art, has also received $18m from the federal government toward the renovation and expansion project
Getty Museum acquires painting by Spanish Renaissance master Luis de Morales following extensive conservation
The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo
How the Imperial War Museum became the reluctant owner of an official Nazi portrait of Adolf Hitler
The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937
This art historian is on a quest to ensure the story of Arab art is not lost
Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts
British Museum to loan ‘some of the rarest surviving examples’ of Ice Age art to UK's City of Culture
The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer
Work honouring anarchist sparks outrage in Milan
Politicians in the city say the “inadequate” display of the mixed-media piece depicting Giuseppe Pinelli, who died after falling out of a police station window, fails to properly confront a dark chapter in the city’s history