Museums & Heritage
Glenn Brown—Gagosian-backed appropriator of Old Masters—to open London museum dedicated to his art
Hoping to increase his visibility, Brown will self-fund a Marylebone space that will combine his work with those of historic artists in his private collection
Pressure on British Museum to ditch BP mounts following UK's record summer heatwave
Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point
Dozens of museum shows across Europe and US will mark 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death next year
Artist’s controversial relationships with women will be examined through "the prism of feminism", including via a dedicated Brooklyn Museum exhibition co-curated by comedian Hannah Gadsby
Wanted in the US, Lebanese antiquities collector maintains his innocence, says his ‘big mistake’ was trusting New York art crime official
Lotfi addresses allegations that led to a warrant being issued for his arrest in a statement and interview, giving new details on the extraordinary story of the Metropolitan Museum's gold sarcophagus
Dutch design studio update 19th-century Dordrecht church facade with a surreal glass sculpture balanced on four bronze turtles
The transformed Protestant building is being relaunched as an exhibition space and cultural centre called Kunstkerk, or art church.
Ukraine gets emergency Red List for art as evidence mounts of 'trading networks flowing West'
The International Council of Museums has worked with Interpol to create the list, with border patrols on "high alert" to seize art stolen from Ukrainian museums—but is it too late?
A first glimpse of Philadelphia's future Alexander Calder sanctuary
The $70m centre will feature indoor and outdoor spaces with rotating exhibitions of Calder’s work
FBI returns 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic discovered in Los Angeles to Italy
The mosaic, which features a portrait of Medusa and had been cut into 16 pieces, was returned to Rome by the FBI’s Art Crime Team
Historic museum celebrating Brazilian independence reopens for country's bicentennial
The Ipiranga Museum in São Paulo, built at the site where independence from Portugal was declared in 1822, has been closed for nearly a decade
Marvin Gaye-inspired exhibition to inaugurate Rubell Museum in Washington, DC
The exhibition will feature nearly 200 works from Don and Mera Rubell's collection
Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo museums offer new approaches to showcasing Indigenous culture in Brazil
A long-closed historic institution and a new museum have contracted committees of Indigenous advisors who will contextualise the ancient and present cultures of their tribes
In surprise move, contemporary art specialist Christine Macel takes the reins at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
Previously chief curator at Centre Pompidou since 2000, she also organised the French Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale
First the Taliban, now local planners—Afghanistan's World Heritage site Bamiyan Valley endangered further
Unesco warns of risks of construction works in the archaeological zone where the Bamiyan Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001
Do the Taliban regret blowing up the Bamiyan Buddhas? New government takes steps to protect heritage
Leaders of the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan says it favours the conservation of the tangible heritage—including pre-Islamic monuments—but economic sanctions are getting in the way
How the Speed Art Museum learned to listen in the midst of a community tragedy
The museum built deep community engagement in real time following the killing of Breonna Taylor in 2020
Brazil turns 200—and its National Museum rises from the ashes
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
New exhibition looks at how the West created the fantasy of Ancient Egypt
Show at Norwich's Sainsbury Centre includes work by contemporary artists to aid a postcolonial interpretation of Egypt's heritage
After a devastating fire in 2018, the National Museum of Brazil unveils the first stage of its restoration project
As the first stage of the museum’s restoration project is unveiled, coinciding with the Brazilian bicentennial of independence, its director calls for more government investment
Whistler’s famed Peacock Room, ‘vibrant and revamped’, reopens following major conservation project
The historic interior, with its elaborate avian ornamentation, has undergone months of cleaning and restoration to shore up worn elements and return others to their original lustre
Greek artefacts from American billionaire's collection will be returned pending exchange agreement
The artefacts could be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before traveling to Athens
Former trustees of Florida museum claim they were kept unaware of FBI’s interest in allegedly fake Basquiats
Trustees who say they were summarily dismissed over email as retaliation claim that the board chair concealed information about an FBI subpoena months before the Basquiat exhibition opened
Victoria and Albert Museum announces three new trustees including right-wing commentator Zewditu Gebreyohanes
‘Anti-woke’ activist appointed along with Rosalind Blakesley and Rusty Elvidge
‘It’s time to ditch the culture war rhetoric’
The next UK prime minister should abandon the war on "woke" and return to nuanced debate
Revamped Museum of Islamic Art in Doha to reopen with more than 1,000 new objects
After 18-month closure, Qatar gallery to relaunch on 5 October in time for Fifa World Cup
Metropolitan Museum to exhibit masterpieces from Puerto Rican museum struck by earthquake
The pieces include paintings by Frederic Leighton, John Everett Millais and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Fair or not, Tate's discrimination row has damaged its reputation among the very artists it needs to attract
The institution denies claims that it refused to allow the increasingly prominent Black performance artist Jade Montserrat to participate in a project for Tate Exchange
The greatest portrait by one of the finest British artists: London's National Portrait Gallery aims to raise £50m to buy Reynolds's Omai
If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum
Acquisitions round-up: Tate gets Indigenous Australian art and Ohio's Toledo Museum swaps Impressionist paintings for a Kerry James Marshall
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Unionised workers file unfair labour charges against the Philadelphia Museum of Art
With contract negotiations well into their second year, the union claims the museum’s leadership has been “repeatedly interfering with employees’ rights”
Exclusive: German museums latest to be implicated in far-reaching criminal investigation into antiquities trafficking
Case has so far seen Middle Eastern works seized from New York's Met and the indictment of a former Louvre director