Museums & Heritage
Art Institute of Chicago to return 12th-century temple artefact to Thailand
The Krishna palister once stood along the doorframe of the most important monument to the Khmer dynasty in Thailand
Madagascar's nascent art scene gets boost from businesses
Two entrepreneurs have founded spaces and set up programmes in one of the world’s poorest countries
‘We are not seeing the picture Rubens intended’: conservation reveals drastic changes made to acclaimed Judgement of Paris
More than a year of meticulous research and work has led to the painting being glowingly restored—while revealing amendments by an unknown artist that “changed the narrative completely”
Swiss Bührle Foundation seeks to settle with Jewish heirs on major Impressionist works
Paintings by Courbet, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin are to be removed from display at Zurich’s Kunsthaus
UK party manifestos on culture: from more regional loans under Labour to the Greens’ EU pledge
The Conservatives, meanwhile, are focusing on protecting public monuments
Australian blockbuster Pharaoh show could inspire British Museum's revamped Ancient Egypt galleries
Curators from the London institution said they might adopt some of the innovative ways the objects were displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria
Centre Pompidou must not close for five years, say French critics and curators
An open letter has called for the public to have access to the complex during its major forthcoming renovation—and for the role of Paris’s state institutions to be protected as a result
New York's Center for Italian Modern Art to close permanently
The Soho space will close its doors for good on 22 June
Wreck of the ship Ernest Shackleton died on found off the coast of Canada
The famed explorer died aboard the Quest in 1922; the ship sank in the Labrador Sea 40 years later
Germany returns looted antiquities in Berlin’s Altes Museum to Italy
As a “thank you” gesture, Italy is reciprocating with loans from Paestum and Naples
Brooklyn Museum director’s home targeted by pro-Palestine activists
The entrance to museum director Anne Pasternak’s apartment building was vandalised with red paint and a banner describing her and the museum as a “White-Supremacist Zionist”
Migrant museum on the Italian island of Lampedusa closes after seven years
The Museum of Faith and Dialogue, which could not afford the new €10,000 annual rent, displayed items found at sea following shipwrecks
Fire guts historic Toronto church, destroying its Group of Seven murals
A restoration campaign for St Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto is already underway, but its historic art is lost forever
Amid backlash, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will modify exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish founders
Organised in response to criticisms that its initial display did not acknowledge Hollywood’s Jewish origins, the exhibition now faces charges of antisemitism from Jewish activists
What do the Magna Carta and five small, costly, enamelled brackets have to do with each other?
A Paris dealer wants €50,000 for them, deadline the end of 2024, and a crowd-funding appeal has been launched in Italy
Campaign launched to stop demolition of Museum of London for office building
Although the controversial project has been green lit, it may take years before building work begins
Four must-see exhibitions during Art Basel
From Precious Okoyomon's nightmarish animatronic bear to a global survey of Black figurative painting, sci-fi chairs and Dan Flavin
Staff at the American Folk Art Museum vote unanimously to form a union
The institution’s new union, formed under UAW Local 2110, will represent workers across departments including curatorial, information technology, retail and more
Palm Springs Art Museum launches permanent LGBTQ+ programming
The California institution’s new Q+ Art initiative is the first of its kind in the US and includes exhibitions, public programming, acquisitions and awards
Fire that damaged Israel Museum being investigated as arson
The fire is believed to have been set at three different sites near the museum building
New arts complex to open in Philadelphia with help from Theaster Gates
The collectors Michael Forman and Jennifer Rice will both house their extensive collection there and engage the working-class neighbourhood where they bought almost a whole city block
MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting sold to the Nazis, appeals court rules
The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War
UK General Election | ‘End the culture of culture washing': art world figures express hopes and fears for the forthcoming vote
We spoke to cultural historians, former ministers and museum directors about the changes they hope to see for the culture sector—and crucially, who they will vote for
Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters rally at Brooklyn Museum
Demonstrators took over the lobby and exterior of the museum on Friday afternoon, calling for transparency and divestment regarding financial ties to Israel
Up in arms: Mexican archaeological bureau denounces damage to at least one mummy in Guanajuato’s famous museum
Local authorities respond that mummy deterioration is not new and even inevitable given a history of visitors “touching them or taking souvenirs, such as bits of clothing”
Legal fight brewing over Pérez Art Museum Miami’s digital billboard
Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard
New UK digital art school provides artist workshops and supplies for NHS mental health units
Online sessions will be led by artists such as Sutapa Biswas and Sarah Dwyer
Penn State university's art museum reopens in new $85m building that seeks to blend art with nature
The Palmer Museum of Art in the city of State College, Pennsylvania, has nearly doubled its space
Leigh Bowery, Emily Kam Kngwarray and Lee Miller—Tate reveals its 2025 exhibition programme
A blockbuster show focused on Turner and Constable plus a vast survey of Nigerian modernism are also in the pipeline
Cleveland Museum of Art will return ancient statue to Libya
The two-foot-tall artefact, which hails from Ancient Egypt's Ptolemaic Dynasty, will remain on view in Cleveland for "a few years"





























