A lead in a 1970s cold case led investigators to a trove of stolen historical weapons; now, these objects are being returned to the institutions they belong to

Works from the Pinacoteca di Brera have been blown up and pasted in high definition on the walls of the Humanitas hospital in Ronzano to improve patients' well-being

Israel's oldest art museum joins nationwide protests against government's contentious new laws, in what arts philanthropist Batia Ofer describes as a "fight for our democracy"

Both sites contain examples of Indigenous art including petroglyphs and pictographs

The gallery at St. John's College in Maryland has reopened as the revamped Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

The triennial’s sixth edition, scheduled for 2026, will be co-organised by one in-house curator and another from Brazil’s Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand

New applications for artificial intelligence can help researchers identify millennia-old rock art more easily

The well-respected director has been replaced by Elizaveta Likhacheva, the current head of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture

Tauric Chersonese, a Unesco World Heritage Site, will boast multiple museums—and a humanitarian centre

The museum was reportedly to be the site of a “guerrilla art installation” by Extinction Rebellion Boston on 18 March

The export deferral on the famed painting has been extended to 10 June, giving London’s National Portrait Gallery a few more weeks to work out a deal, possibly with the Getty

With first leg of controversial $20bn Maya Train project set to begin operation, authorities have stepped up excavation and development of archaeological destinations

The French artist worked as Auguste Rodin’s assistant before teaching sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti and Hans Arp, but a newly remodelled museum hopes to centre the importance of his own work

New director defends overhaul in wake of rising energy costs and Arts Council funding cuts

The painting was one of four Carr works featured in the first Canadian presentation at the Venice Biennale, in 1952

The museum has issued a statement further distancing itself from the late Emma Bunker, who allegedly falsified provenance for items looted from Cambodia

The Paris institution's latest outpost is part of drive to rebrand the Middle Eastern state

"Keyboard warriors" are calling out unfair recruitment practices at cultural institutions

The painting, which belonged to the late playwright Lanford Wilson, was donated to the museum by his Circle Repertory Company co-founder, Tanya Berezin

Nancy Yao, the director of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America, will take the helm at the in-development Washington, DC museum in June

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The National Roman Museum's director Stéphane Verger shares the radical new plans that will revamp four landmark museum and heritage sites in Italy

Caitlin Murray will take over at the Marfa museum founded by Donald Judd

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art says it is now 98% of the way to its fundraising goal for the campaign to construct its controversial Peter Zumthor-designed building

During Weinberg’s tenure, the Whitney built and moved into its new Meatpacking District home, saw attendance increase threefold and navigated a series of scandals

Though the Parisian cathedral's nave is expected to reopen to the public by the end of 2024, work to restore the entire site could last until 2028

Chipperfield’s building projects include Turner Contemporary and Museo Jumex, as well as expansions of Kunsthaus Zürich and London’s Royal Academy

News that a German museum has been hanging work “the wrong way” for 75 years has sparked debate about whether the artist would have even cared

The deal means significant pay increases for hourly wage earners and salaried employees alike, and extends some benefits to temporary workers