Museums & Heritage
Metropolitan Museum of Art increases admission fee
The museum initially changed its "pay-as-you-wish" policy in 2018
Orlando Museum of Art director fired after FBI raids Basquiat exhibition
The museum’s board removed Aaron De Groft amid a widening scandal over issues of authenticity and reports of ‘inappropriate correspondence’
Tate announces 2023 programme including exhibition pairing Hilma af Klint with Piet Mondrian
Solo shows dedicated to Isaac Julien and Sarah Lucas, a survey of contemporary African photography and the controversial "Philip Guston Now" are also on the slate
The UK's cost of living crisis has hit its museums and heritage sites—and the worst might still be to come
Economic instability and rising energy prices threaten many institutions, while emergency funding made available during the pandemic is no longer accessible
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston selling NFTs of rarely-exhibited French Impressionist pastels to raise funds for conservation
The museum, which holds the largest French Impressionist collection outside of France, will use proceeds from sales of around 2,000 NFTs to conserve two Degas paintings
Daniel H. Weiss will step down as president and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum
Weiss, who guided the Met through several major projects and challenges during his tenure, will step down in June 2023
FBI raids Florida museum, seizing 25 Basquiat paintings amid questions regarding their authenticity
The works had purportedly been sitting in a storage unit for 30 years before resurfacing in 2012 and eventually going on view at the Orlando Museum of Art
‘No one can interfere with our offensive’: Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky compares Russian export of culture to country’s ‘operation’ in Ukraine
St. Petersburg museum also announces “a one-year moratorium on exhibitions in Europe and the US”
Scrapped: $789m plan to demolish and rebuild Canadian museum on hold amid backlash
What would have been the most expensive museum project in Canadian history is paused indefinitely due to opposition over its cost
Smithsonian's hunt for sites for national Latino and women’s museums narrowed down to four locations
The institution will announce the selected Washington, DC sites for the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum by the end of the year
Plans for $70m National Juneteenth Museum in Texas come into full view
The museum will be housed in a 50,000 sq. ft timber structure on Fort Worth's Southside designed by Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group
Art Gallery of Ontario unveils its first public art commission, an elephantine bronze by Brian Jungen
The massive sculpture, five years in the making, depicts a tragic circus elephant recreated out of trashed leather furniture
Activist group’s film projection on Victoria and Albert Museum façade raises concerns about trustees’ politics
The ethics of the South Kensington museum are in question after hosting Conservative Party fundraiser
New dam could drown ancient Iraqi city of Ashur
Having survived Islamic State, Assyrian capital is under threat once again
The newly-restored Morgan Library and Museum opens a public garden
The $13m project entailed a comprehensive exterior restoration and landscape redesign
Developers circle as unique industrial building in English Unesco World Heritage site faces closure
Strutt’s North Mill Museum in Derbyshire is set to close following the withdrawal of local authority funding
Vast Anglo-Saxon burial ground discovered during work on the UK’s HS2 rail route
Archaeologists found swords, jewellery and ear wax removers at the site
Unionised Philadelphia Museum of Art workers rally to push contract negotiations forward
Negotiations between the union and museum leadership have been ongoing since October 2020
Nearly 20 years after the invasion of Iraq, an artist revisits the looting of the national museum in Baghdad
The Iranian-born artist Abbas Akhavan’s installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver re-stages a scene captured at the Iraq Museum in 2003
Monumental Sanford Biggers sculpture will welcome visitors to Orange County Museum of Art's new home
The sculpture will be installed prominently outdoors at the Southern California museum's new $93m Morphosis-designed building
Jewel box museum of Old Master artworks reopens in San Diego
The Timken Museum of Art, the only museum with a Rembrandt on public display in San Diego, underwent a major two-year renovation
Austrian collector Heidi Goëss-Horten has died, aged 81, days after her new museum opens
The Heidi Horten Collection in Vienna includes works by Andy Warhol, Lucio Fontana and Damien Hirst
UK export bar placed on Nicolas Poussin’s £19m masterpiece
Museums must match the price of the work titled Confirmation, which has been put on the market by the Duke of Rutland
Uffizi gallery makes only €70,000 from Michelangelo NFT that sold for €240,000
Deal with Cinello company fuels debate about ownership of Old Master masterpieces in the metaverse age
Moving Michelangelo and hauling Holbein: renovation headache for London's National Gallery
A bicentenary renovation project makes the London museum play a tricky game of musical chairs with its collection
Paris Hilton helps Lacma launch fund to acquire digital art by women
The heiress and NFT evangelist is supporting a new acquisition fund at the museum, which has a history of supporting artists working with cutting-edge technology
US museums must confront ‘inherited colonial narratives’, says Thomas Campbell, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Two years after the death of George Floyd, conversations about racism are morphing into lasting policy change
Acquisitions round-up: Gordon Parks photographs head to the 'mecca of Black education' Howard University in Washington, DC
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Crypto crash: what now for NFTs and the art world?
Plus, Norway’s mega-museum and a Spanish-American screen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art