Some of the 19 artefacts handed over by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office had ties to notorious traffickers

Three works will be going up for auction at Christie's New York—but with an unusual caveat

Docents—voluntary educators who are frequently white, of retirement age and middle class—embody the tensions between the status quo and change in US museums

The initiative was created by the UK-based company Roxbox, which has developed a range of reusable shipping crates to tackle waste

Sheikha Al-Mayassa shared images on social media of the Palestinian flag projected on the façades of the Museum of Islamic Art and the National Museum of Qatar

Coins, crockery and tools are among the objects unaccounted for but museum says "some losses are inevitable"

Museu de l’Art Prohibit is founded by the Catalan businessman Tatxo Benet

Wide-ranging nationwide survey will catalogue artefacts held by monasteries and convents that were collected by missionaries in Africa, Asia and South America

The 18-month residencies mark the 230th anniversary of the Parisian museum

Government strategy underscores controversial monuments should stay in place, a move criticised by some culture professionals

Police are not treating the event as suspicious. The gallery will remain closed until Friday 6 October

The artworks include an 11th-century stone sculpture donated by a relative of a longtime curator of Asian art at the Met

The Met’s main store, just off its great hall, will be relocated to ground level, in part to accommodate the museum’s hugely popular Costume Institute exhibitions

While the Azerbaijani president has promised to protect cultural and religious sites in the region, others have called for their demolition

A virtual museum in the popular game counteracts players who deny or distort the history of antisemitism

Plus, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco gain a major collection of American art and the Rijksmuseum acquires recently restituted silver salt cellars

The Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art are making plans for continuing operations amid a government shutdown that appears increasingly likely

He replaced a painting by Franz von Stuck with a forgery and sold the original

The Infinities Commission will support “immersive projects that sit outside conventional artistic categories”, with the inaugural edition launching in performance space The Tanks in spring 2025

The museum says that Why Architects and Swinerton Builders “failed to meet even the minimum museum-quality standards”

The Washington, DC, museum opens on 21 October with an ambitious show of previously unseen large-scale sculptures and immersive installations

The Italian curator replaces Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, who steps down at the end of this year

George Osborne, the museum's chair, and the UK culture department are among those in the spotlight in the wake of Roman and Greek objects being stolen

The museum has also stated that 300 further items are “due to be returned imminently”, and that it has enlisted an international taskforce

The new works replace those depicting Confederate generals that were removed in 2017

The legal case seeking to block the art museum's new $180m Herzog & de Meuron-designed building is ongoing

The new spaces will bring together treasures by some of Scotland's best-loved artists of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Royal Collection curators checked provenance records and pigments, tracing the work to Queen Henrietta Maria

The Kiah house will be restored to its former glory, highlighting African American art, and providing housing to local artists

All but one of the 14 historic sites the Lahaina Restoration Foundation owned or managed was critically damaged in the deadly fires