A painting by Egon Schiele is among those bought back by the institutions from where they were confiscated

Some 30 objects in an auction this week are protected by Mexico’s cultural heritage laws, authorities there say

Ngaire Blankenberg quietly left the institution at the end of March

The 92-year-old artist's first-ever ceiling work takes inspiration from the "colour of the skies" and follows in the footsteps of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescos

The museum’s ambitious climate action plan, unveiled amidst a $60m expansion, calls for cutting its building emissions in half by 2025

The Hunterian Museum reopens 16 May, mindful of the changing ethics of displaying human remains

Caroline of Brunswick, "an injured princess" famously acquitted of treasonous adultery, was refused admission to George IV's crowning in Westminster Abbey

Major new contemporary art space designed by Renzo Piano opens ahead of key elections

The role of art in a time of crisis was the subject of a three-day discussion between leading cultural figures in Florence last week

The Washington, DC, institution wants to better connect with Asian American communities

The recent communal violence which burned down the Azizia Madrasa occurred in the wake of numerous recent laws targeting Muslims

The institutions agreed to collaborate in areas including restitution, digitisation of collections and exhibitions

The strike at the Manhattan museum, which had been on the cusp of reopening after a six-year renovation, has now stretched into its third month

Texas institution opens six new galleries to display its collection of Islamic art, coinciding with its hosting of symposium on the subject

The student, who was visiting a major Cattelan exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, taped the empty banana peel back to the wall

As workers at US art institutions continue to organise, negotiate and, when necessary, go on strike, the most high-profile museum strike in years, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, continues to provide insights

The Museum of Broken Windows takes on themes of state-sponsored racial injustice in light of New York mayor Eric Adams's planned municipal budget allocating $11bn to the NYPD

Former Tallahassee Classical School principal Hope Carrasquilla travelled to Italy and met with the Galleria del'Accademia's director

Plus, the AI photography scandal at the Sony World Photography Awards

A man and a woman have daubed red and black paint on the display case containing 'Little Dancer'

Pressing challenges include maintaining visitor numbers and developing the institution's climate response

As the late artist's 100th birthday nears, his foundation is undertaking the largest philanthropic project in its history

Leading artists and museum professionals raise fears as violence erupts in Khartoum

Questions resurface over New York museum’s rationale for consigning works by the artist to auction

Members of the museum’s union, who have been in negotiations with administration over their first contract for more than a year, handed out leaflets to attendees arriving for the annual Artists Ball

Guidelines for returning objects looted from former colonies and during the Nazi period are laid out in a report commissioned by Emmanuel Macron and written by former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez

The move may complicate plans to house the works in future museums such as the Edo Museum of West African Art

Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany

Art found by chance in Old Dongola shows King David of Makuria kissing the hand of Jesus, a remarkable example of Christian art now threatened by unfolding violence in Sudan

Indiana-based Valparaiso University is reportedly hoping to raise $20m with the sale of works by O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam and Frederic Church from its museum’s collection