Museums & Heritage
Rubells’ Washington, DC museum is taking shape
Among the amenities in the works is an observation space where visitors can watch resident artists at work
Catholic church's proposed redesign of Notre Dame interior provokes outrage
Plans to revamp the fire-ravaged cathedral with contemporary art and multilingual projections of Bible quotes have been compared to Disneyland
Germany launches online portal for museum objects acquired in the colonial era
So far 25 institutions have contributed 8,000 entries; the plan is to expand it and translate it into several languages
Top New York architect dropped midway through Hermitage Museum’s Moscow expansion project
Hani Rashid says he was ghosted by the Moscow city government
‘More is more’: San Francisco’s new contemporary art centre reveals latest hires and inaugural programmes
The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco makes four key hires ahead of a series of pop-up events and exhibitions starting in January
Fraud: the case of Inigo Philbrick
Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums
Egypt's ancient road of 1,000 sphinxes, buried under sand for centuries, unveiled in spectacular ceremony
The path, which was rediscovered in 1949, connects the temples of Luxor and Karnak in the east of the country
Futuristic dreams rub shoulders with everyday innovations in new Smithsonian show
‘Futures’ inaugurates the renovated Arts and Industries Building with an array of technological wonders ranging from the prosaic to the otherworldly
Magnificent Roman mosaic discovered in a farmer's field is 'UK's most exciting find of its kind in a century'
The first ever mosaic illustrating scenes from Homer’s Iliad, it would have decorated an imposing dining and entertainment space within a major villa complex
More refugees to be trained as tour guides at Oxford University museums after £1m gift from Saudi foundation
Funding from Alwaleed Philanthropies will support Multaka project working with 200 refugees and asylum seekers over the next five years
How China's museums are cosying up to commercial galleries for big-ticket exhibitions
Dealers are eagerly filling curatorial gaps in new museums with shows for their artists, but does the market hold too much sway?
Tate Britain director defends museum against accusations of ‘cancelling Hogarth’
Critics round on exhibition’s alternative interpretations of Hogarth paintings, describing them as "wokeish drivel"
Garage Museum expands in Gorky park with move into historic Hexagon pavilion
Sanaa architects masterplan turns 1920s site in Moscow into vast exhibition space and library
Australian painter's beloved Bundanon estate to be reborn with 32 guest rooms and a bushfire-resistant gallery
Arthur Boyd's rural home—which hosts his collection and Australia's largest residency programme—will reopen after a major expansion in early 2022
How a Milan museum won the battle to show the world’s most important private collection of Futurist art
Famous Mattioli collection loan will make Museo del Novecento “undoubtedly the most important centre for Futurist art” when it goes on display next spring
Biden administration moves to block oil and gas exploitation near Pueblo cultural sites in New Mexico
Chaco Canyon, a Unesco World Heritage site since 1987, was to be opened to drilling under a Trump administration plan
Restoration of Courtauld Gallery's Botticelli altarpiece yields surprising new discoveries
Technical studies on neglected painting cast valuable light on the workings of the Renaissance master's Florence studio and on the question of attribution
A director’s tour of London’s revamped Courtauld Gallery
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces are back on view after a major building transformation and “looking better than ever”
Oxford University lists 145 looted Benin objects in collections
The director of the Pitt Rivers Museum says the report is a step in the restitution process
Qatari sheikh's treasures go on show at 'mini-Versailles' in Paris for the next 20 years
Collection of Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani finds a long-term home at the Hôtel de la Marine, the former repository of French royal furniture, art and jewels
‘We had to give it our best shot’: inside the Getty’s record-setting Caillebotte acquisition
The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism
Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art brings in new curatorial leadership
René Morales of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and Jamillah James of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will fill key vacancies at the MCA
MFA Boston workers who unionised go on strike
More than 200 workers at the museum are striking for a day in protest of stalled contract negotiations
London museum wants to move controversial slaver statue to 'less prominent space'
Museum of the Home trustees vote to relocate the sculpture after UK government pressured them to keep it
Boris Johnson says British Museum trustees must decide fate of the Parthenon Marbles
The British Prime Minister met with Greek leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who reiterates that the ancient sculptures should be shown at the Acropolis Museum
Discovery of Turkish 11,400-year-old village challenges ideas of when and why humans first settled down
Excavations at monumental site Karahan Tepe, near the Turkish-Syrian border, suggest that society was established before the dawn of agriculture
Temple reliefs provide a rare glimpse into how artists made ancient Egyptian art
Less-experienced artists carved body parts, while master sculptors worked on faces among archaeologist's discoveries at the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
Going underground: English poet Alexander Pope’s hidden grotto to be saved
A relic of national importance, the man-made cave is all that remains of his villa and gardens—and is only accessible through a school dining hall
Ancient Krishnas are reunited with their body parts
A collaboration between the Cleveland Museum of Art and the National Museum of Cambodia revealed that each boy god had been given the other’s limbs during earlier conservation work
Review: Hong Kong's highly anticipated M+ museum opens—but can it withstand political pressure?
This world-class institution is a magnificent achievement, but it faces a profoundly different political environment today from its inception 25 years ago