Museums & Heritage
London's National Gallery drops disgraced Sackler family name from its walls—will the V&A follow suit?
Victoria and Albert Museum is last major UK institution to retain the donors' name on its building, despite settlement agreement allowing its removal
America's racial reckoning: inside the controversial Guston show
Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi
Zip line planned for Ancient Jerusalem draws criticism from heritage officials and threatens to spark regional tension
A controversial Israeli development plan will also install a cable car to the city's Western Wall, a Jewish holy site
Smithsonian adopts new ‘ethical returns policy’ to handle artefacts with problematic histories
The new policy, adopted by all Smithsonian museums on 29 April, will allow each institution to tailor it to their particular collections and provenance considerations
Amid overwhelming silence from US museums on Roe v. Wade news, ICA San Francisco offers its space to abortion rights activists
Few museums have spoken out since a leaked draft of a US Supreme Court decision indicated that the country's highest court will overturn the landmark abortion rights case
Night at the museum? Norwegian architecture exhibition invites members of public to sleep over
Show at Kode Museums in Bergen address questions around communal living, hoping to prove that living together can make us happier and healthier
Princeton Museum acquires rare work by Pre-Raphaelite painter Rebecca Solomon
The museum acquired “A Young Teacher” at a recent Sotheby’s auction, where it sold for more than ten times its high estimate
At the 2022 Met Gala, everything old (money) is new again
The Metropolitan Museum’s annual fashion extravaganza drew divergent interpretations of its Gilded Age theme
Scottish museum of religion is finally coming out of lockdown—more than two years after the pandemic hit
Faith leaders and community groups campaigned to save Glasgow's St Mungo Museum of Religious Art and Life from the risk of permanent closure
Not one but two LGBTQ cultural spaces to open in London this spring
Queer Britain museum and Queercircle art space, both opening as the UK marks 50 years of Gay Pride marches, will offer free-entry exhibitions and public workshops
Russian forces reportedly stole valuable art from museums in Melitopol and Mariupol
A curator at the Melitopol Museum of Local History has also been kidnapped, according to local reports
First Lady Jill Biden opens new Met Costume Institute exhibition with message of solidarity with Ukraine
Dr. Biden joined Anna Wintour and several of the film directors who curated the period rooms of the Metropolitan Museum’s American wing
Museum ethics body blasts dismissal of Polish museum director
Jaroslaw Suchan will be replaced at Łodz Museum of Art by the artist Andrzej Biernacki
Show of unity: the hidden challenges of staging major museum exhibitions
With loan shows bringing together dozens of works with diverse conservation histories, curators can face myriad hurdles in their quest for cohesion
Mexico’s Maya Train carries catastrophic archaeological and environmental risks, activists warn
The Mexican government is accused of concealing archaelogical findings along 1,500km route of president’s Yucatán mega-project
From cosy to creepy: new displays at Bletchley Park muddle Britain's honourable Nazi-fighting history with a contested present
The museum—set inside a Buckinghamshire country house—has opened its largest ever gallery, called the Intelligence Factory, this week
Art Gallery of Ontario goes big with plans for new Modern and contemporary wing
The 50,000 sq. ft showplace, dubbed AGO Global Contemporary, is set to launch in 2026-27
Venice museums send supplies to help save Ukraine’s art
As part of the Save Ukraine Art network, essential materials to protect works from bombs, fire and damp are heading to Lviv National Art Gallery
Donald Judd planned to turn a remote Texan outpost into an art oasis—now, the first step of a huge restoration project is complete
Once a military base deep in the desert, the newly restored Marfa art centre is a sanctuary for sculpture
National Asian Pacific American Museum one step closer to reality as US House of Representatives approves bill
The measure, which was approved by the lower house of Congress unanimously, now heads to the Senate
Reports say Putin is deliberately targeting Ukrainian heritage—but is that true?
Amid Russia’s savagery we must maintain a clear ethical stance when intervening to protect culture
Taliban orders coal traders to leave Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley—but its residents say this is an empty promise
Since August 2021, illegal excavations and rapid development have destroyed much of the landscape surrounding the at-risk Buddhist heritage site
Italy’s 'monuments men' sign deal with Unesco to help protect world's heritage
World-leading heritage protection taskforce known as the 'Blue Helmets' will have close ties with UN agency to operate abroad
Unesco indefinitely postpones planned world heritage meeting in Russia
The 45th annual meeting of the organisation’s World Heritage Committee was due to take place in June in the Russian city of Kazan
National Gallery of Victoria receives $74m to build Australia's largest contemporary art museum
The Melbourne museum will span around 30,000 sq. m and open in 2028
MoMA and the Neue Galerie jointly acquire a Käthe Kollwitz self-portrait
The Museum of Modern Art plans to hold a major exhibition of the German artist’s work in the near future
Acquisitions round-up: Zao Wou-ki's stepdaughter gifts a dozen works by the Modern master to M+
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
‘Living history’: meet the Mosul residents rebuilding their city
Local trainees are taking up traditional stone masonry techniques as part of a major Unesco initiative to restore heritage houses damaged in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from Isis
Unesco’s winning designs for Mosul mosque are redrawn
An international restoration plan has been revised after the foundations of an ancient prayer hall were discovered at the site of the Al-Nuri mosque
Glasgow museums to return 49 looted objects—including Benin bronzes—in biggest restitution in Scottish history
Stolen artefacts will be given back to Nigeria, India and a Native American tribe