Museums & Heritage
In aftermath of Hurricane Ian's destruction, West Florida art institutions begin to pick up the pieces
While some museums and art spaces escaped largely unscathed—thanks to a mix of thorough preparation and meteorological luck—others in the most devastated areas remain unreachable
Welsh museum rebuilds and restores historic Cardiff pub threatened with demolition
The 19th-century Vulcan Hotel was closed in 2012—but next year it will pull pints once again at St Fagans National Museum of History
Brooklyn Museum completes ten-year renovation of Asian and Islamic art galleries
The approximately $9m project included modernising 20,000 sq. ft of galleries and bringing key objects out of storage for public display for the first time
A Danny Boyle dance show inspired by The Matrix and an inflatable Kusama room: Manchester's new art space set to open next year
Factory International is over budget and four years late, but will create 1,500 new jobs and inject a projected £1.1bn into the city's economy over the next decade, city council say
Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli will curate the 2024 Whitney Biennial
After a 2022 Biennial curated entirely in-house, the Whitney has selected one staff member, Iles, and an independent curator, Onli, to organise the exhibition’s 81st edition
Brooklyn Museum workers rally at open house to call attention to stalled contract negotiations
Unionised workers lined the main entryway to the museum as visitors arrived for after-hours programming
Controversial $1.8bn redevelopment of Delhi’s parliament complex enters second phase
A number of the Indian capital's major cultural institutions, including the National Museum, will be rehoused
Florida museums close as Hurricane Ian bears down on state’s west coast
Museums between Tampa Bay and Naples face the greatest risk, with a storm surge expected to exceed 10ft in some parts of the region when the hurricane makes landfall
Belgian museum looks unchanged after €100m restoration—but an entirely new building has been inserted within
Home to works by Old Masters including Peter Paul Rubens and Jan van Eyck, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp reopens after 11-year makeover
A fixture of the Washington, DC scene becomes its newest contemporary art museum
After nearly 50 years as the Arlington Arts Center, a non-profit space just across the river from DC is being reborn as the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington
Workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art are on strike 'until we get the contract we deserve'
After a one-day strike failed to move negotiations forward, unionised workers at the museum have begun an indefinite strike
After 26 years, Guggenheim discontinues prestigious $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize
The biannual award was first given in 1996 to Matthew Barney, and in the years since has honoured some of contemporary art’s biggest names
Sydney museum turns underground Second World War oil reservoir into dramatic new gallery space
The Tank is part of the Sydney Modern extension at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, due to open in December
Toronto’s revered Power Plant art centre in peril after board members’ mass resignation
The resignations mark a major escalation of a long-running power struggle between the gallery’s leadership and its landlord, the Harbourfront Centre
Lucas Museum delays opening until 2025, reveals acquisitions including Ernie Barnes and John Singer Sargent works
The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park
How the Alaskan capital of Juneau is becoming a hub for Native art
In the state’s capital, a new arts campus signals the growing ambitions of a rich but long-overlooked creative community
Spain's Prado museum releases list of works with murky civil war and Francoist provenance
Up to 62 works in the collection, including paintings by Joaquín Sorolla and François Boucher copies, could be returned to their original owners under the current investigation
The Carnegie International takes on the era of US superpower
Works in the 58th Carnegie International range from an exploration of America’s geopolitical influence to a tree that owns the plot of land it occupies in Pittsburgh
Artist, writer and choreographer Ralph Lemon wins Whitney Museum’s coveted Bucksbaum Award
The prize, given to one artist in every edition of the Whitney Biennial, comes with a $100,000 check
Former Dallas Contemporary director Peter Doroshenko to take the helm of New York’s Ukrainian Museum
Doroshenko, a Chicagoan of Ukrainian heritage, was the founding president of the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv and was the commissioner of the country’s Venice Biennale pavilion three times
Why is art at the heart of Italy’s far-right political party?
Plus, Carnegie International, the US's longest-running contemporary art exhibition, and a mystifying egg sculpture
Lights go out early at the Louvre in bid to slash high energy costs
Paris museum's pyramid joins the Eiffel Tower, Musée d'Orsay and Chateau Versailles in French government initiative to save power
Revealed: the hidden history of espionage in Britain’s heritage sites
New film uncovers how locations including Beaulieu, today home to the National Motor Museum, played a key role in intelligence training during the Second World War
Ukrainian stone statues—likened to Easter Island's Moai—destroyed during Russian invasion
Dating from the ninth to the 13th century, the stelae were once considered sacred
Long-awaited Istanbul Modern museum nears completion
Renzo Piano-designed institution may coincide with this year's Istanbul Biennial
Berlin's controversial Humboldt Forum is finally complete—but 'the work inside begins now', German Culture Minister says
Twenty years since its conception and at a cost of around €680m, the new German museum must now follow through on its restitution promises
Experts fear for preservation of 'spectacular' mosaic unearthed by farmers in Gaza refugee camp
The Byzantine-era gem has been described as "the most beautiful mosaic floor" found in Palestine
Philadelphia Museum of Art workers hold one-day strike
The strike by unionised employees of the museum was intended to put pressure on the administration amid protracted contract negotiations
Dimitrios Pandermalis, director and curator of the Acropolis Museum in Athens, has died, aged 82
Pandermalis, a revered archaeologist and professor, had also been outspoken in calling for the reunification of all the Parthenon marbles in Athens
Hew Locke covers Met Museum with golden trophies inspired by colonial looting
The suite of sculptures is inspired by works in the museum’s collection with convoluted histories