Museums & Heritage

Whitney Museum of American Art raises ticket prices and becomes most expensive New York museum

Admission fees have increased by 20% for adults and 33% for seniors and students, matching (and even exceeding) those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Unesconews

The United States officially rejoins Unesco

Following a five-year absence, one of the founding members of the UN's cultural agency is readmitted as the organisation's 194th member state

First week of Italy's Pantheon price hike nets €200,000

Previously free, a standard tourist ticket to the ancient site now costs €5

Mo’ better news: Spike Lee exhibition coming to the Brooklyn Museum

The museum will showcase more than 300 objects related to the famed Brooklyn film-maker’s life and work

Lawnews

Poet and translator to sue British Museum for copyright and moral rights infringement

Vancouver-based Yilin Wang has raised more than £15,000 via Crowd Justice to begin legal proceedings

Guild Hall, one of the Hamptons's leading art institutions, is transformed after $29m renovation

Shuttered for two years, the East Hampton institution has reopened with a major Renée Cox solo show

British wartime control tower to become holiday home after £3.1m restoration

Conservation charity Landmark Trust plans to transform derelict building into unique four-bedroom house, due to open in 2025

Chinese Canadian Museum opens with timely reflection on national identity

Marking the centennial of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the museum’s inaugural exhibition is “the story of the Chinese community’s darkest period in Canada”

American Women’s History Museum founding director Nancy Yao withdraws from role

Yao, who was picked to lead the new Smithsonian museum through design and construction, said she needs to prioritise her family

Young V&A accused of removing trans-affirming books and poster from display

Former employees of the newly reopened London museum have joined a chorus of criticism over the removal of materials related to trans rights and queer identities

US museum returns centuries-old Bakor monolith to Nigeria

The Chrysler Museum of Art repatriated the ancient sculpture following the recent discovery of photographic evidence

Netherlands to repatriate nearly 500 looted objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka

The Rijksmuseum will return six colonial artefacts, for the first time in its history

Maasai families receive cows in recognition of 'culturally sensitive heirlooms' in Pitt Rivers Museum

After taking guidance from the community's traditional elders and religious leaders, the Oxford museum presented the "symbolic gift" on the weekend

Excavations for Magazzino Italian Art’s expansion allowed the centre to finally create a rare Michelangelo Pistoletto Land Art piece

The outdoor installation, conceived in 2003 but never executed until now, was unveiled on the Italian artist’s 90th birthday

Austria appoints Ralph Gleis to run the Albertina

The director of Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie will succeed Klaus Albrecht Schröder from 2025

Jonathan Fine on how he aims to make Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum more ‘approachable’ and sustainable

The scientific director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna will take charge of one of Europe’s most important museum organisations in 2025

'Untenable': why the Jewish Museum London is closing its Camden site

The museum plans to find a “pop-up” location by next year before reopening in a permanent venue in 2032

Racenews

New Orleans Museum of Art faces public outcry for hiring white curator of African art

The museum is facing heated critique on social media over the appointment of Amanda Maples, a white woman, to oversee its African art collection

Prized Leonardo portrait on the move at US National Gallery of Art amid renovations

The Washington, DC museum will move “Ginevra de' Benci” to a different gallery through early 2024

UK and Greece should share Parthenon Marbles says London mayor Sadiq Khan

The Labour party politician encourages the British Museum and the UK government to advance talks with the government of Greece and Athens's Acropolis Museum

A new organisation wants to empower US museums to reallocate resources from objects to people

Remuseum, launched by the Crystal Bridges Museum with support from the Ford Foundation, has appointed Stephen Reily as its founding director

The kids are alright: newly opened Young V&A aims to be an evolutionary museum for children

Three years in the making, the new satellite of the Victoria and Albert museum has been created “with, not for” its audience—and could now act as a template for other museums.

Female forward: National Portrait Gallery announces women-led partnership with Magnum Photos

Seven portraits of British women by female Magnum photographers will enter the permanent collection of London's newly reopened gallery as it attempts to balance a historic gender disparity

Jonathan Fine is named director general of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum

Currently director of the Weltmuseum in Vienna, Fine succeeds Sabine Haag in 2025

Warhol and Pollock works stolen by American crime ring may not have been destroyed, authorities reveal

Statements by one member of a crime ring that struck 20 different institutions over two decades have restored hope that not all the loot was destroyed

Tristram Hunt: The Young V&A embraces Generation Alpha

The new Young V&A, opening 1 July, will "build cultural confidence in the capital’s most disadvantaged borough", writes the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Climate activists, protesting against federal charges against their colleagues, rally at the Metropolitan Museum

Joanna Smith and Tim Martin face up to five years in prison after smearing paint on the case and pedestal of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art

Hermitage Amsterdam gets new name and three new museum partners

The museum, which broke ties with the St Petersburg museum after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, will now be known as H’art

Spain’s most ambitious museum project in decades unites royal collection in Madrid

Some are concerned that the new Royal Collections Gallery will be a blow to cultural tourism in the regions where a number of the works previously resided

Ireland sets up panel to advise on return of contested cultural heritage

The committee is led by Donnell Deeny, chairman of the UK government’s Spoliation Advisory Committee