Museums & Heritage
Museum hiring rebounds? US institutions announce a string of appointments to leadership and curatorial positions
It is still not clear how quickly the lower levels of staff, which were hardest hit by pandemic job losses, will recover
Robert E. Lee’s former Virginia mansion reopens to the public with an enlightening focus on the enslaved
Arlington House, where wealthy white privilege contrasts with bondage and suffering, has undergone a $12.3m rehabilitation and reinterpretation
London's Courtauld Gallery to reopen in November with new exhibition spaces and a commission by Cecily Brown
LVMH Great Room and Blavatnik Fine Rooms reflect generous backing from sponsors
Paris's indebted Fan Museum at risk of folding
Income losses during the pandemic have pushed the private museum and fan-making workshop to the brink
Home truths: east London's museum of domestic life emerges from lockdown after £18.8m makeover
Museum of the Home reopens on 12 June with double the public space in its 18th-century almshouse buildings
Centre Pompidou plans to open a satellite museum in Jersey City in 2024
The venue, the French institution’s first in North America, will exhibit borrowed works and serve as an “art laboratory”
Neglected corners of US history: National Trust for Historic Preservation designates 11 most endangered places
Places range from Alabama farms where civil rights marchers once camped to a Utah site where Chinese railroad labourers stayed
Minneapolis Institute of Art announces over $19m in gifts, including funds for a diversity officer, Latin American curator and deputy director
Museum, under pressure to embrace equity while facing revenue losses, says the money will shore up its endowment and operating budget
Pressure mounts for Italy to buy Torlonia marbles—world's finest collection of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands
As a landmark exhibition in Rome draws to a close, government's plans for long-hidden group of ancient sculpture remain unclear
Whitney voluntarily recognises a union local, sparing employees the need to organise a vote
From curators to porters, more than 180 workers are involved in the effort as labour campaigns multiply among US art institutions
Calls for reparations lead the commemoration of Tulsa Massacre
US President Biden acknowledged during visit that "some injustices are so heinous… they cannot be buried"
Stand by your man—or don’t: Ragnar Kjartansson will dissect the patriarchy of pop music at the Guggenheim for Independence Day
Women and non-binary musician will perform non-stop love songs in the museum’s rotunda over the holiday weekend
After warnings that a third of US museums could close, a survey indicates that just 15% are at significant risk
Poll conducted in April yields optimism that financial fallout from the pandemic will be less severe than feared
Door still open to Hermitage Barcelona after city council calls for revised project
Ongoing negotiations for a new satellite of the Russian museum will focus on a collaboration with the Barcelona opera house
The Greenwood Massacre, America’s ‘single worst incident of racial violence’, is remembered 100 years on
The historic example of domestic terrorism, when white mobs killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed businesses, finally gets due recognition
MaXXI L'Aquila hopes to kickstart cultural revival in earthquake-damaged Italian city
New branch of Rome's national contemporary art museum opens next week in a restored 18th-century palace
The David and Goliath of art collections team up—London’s National Gallery loans nine works to Southampton
Maverick museum chief Kenneth Clark helped shape the Southampton City Art Gallery's collection
Twelve down, one to go: epic restoration of 16th-century, English tapestries nears completion after 20 years
Conservation of the panels—bought by Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick—has been National Trust's "most lengthy and expensive textile project"
Smithsonian will reopen its remaining 10 museums on a staggered schedule starting next month
Venues in Washington, DC and New York will require masks and many will have reduced hours
Woolworth Building in San Antonio, a landmark in civil rights history, is spared from demolition
Former 1921 dime store, which peacefully desegregated its lunch counter in 1960, will house an Alamo museum
Laurence des Cars will be the first woman to lead the Louvre in its history
A seasoned director with an emphasis on the social role of museums, she replaces Jean-Luc Martinez as the Louvre's president-director on 1 September
What it's like to visit museums now—and how Covid-19 has fundamentally changed them long term
Coronavirus restrictions have dramatically altered the visitor experience, but the changes run deeper than mask-wearing and one-way systems
Brooklyn Museum employees seek to form a union bargaining unit
The labour chapter would represent 130 curators, conservators, front-desk staff and others
Exclusive survey: what progress have US museums made on diversity, after a year of racial reckoning?
We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences
Germany launches African museum exchange programme to discuss returning looted objects
New government initiative MuseumsLab aims to foster more international co-operation and consider topics including decolonisation and restitution
San Diego’s arts institutions cry out as mayor maintains 50% reduction in city funding into 2022
Prolonging the pain will not help the culture sector—a formerly $1bn industry that supported 36,000 full-time jobs—bounce back, leaders say
Culture professionals react to Tony Hall quitting as National Gallery chair amid BBC Princess Diana scandal
John Kingman, the London museum's deputy chair, will temporarily step into the role
Campaigners fight to preserve monumental Soviet-era murals in Ukraine
Victor Arnautoff’s large-scale 1960s mosaics on public buildings in Mariupol are threatened by neglect and a “decommunisation” campaign
The first ‘wall to wall’ museum union in the US turns one year old
Staff labour organisers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reflect on their accomplishments
'Art is our spiritual oxygen': new shows to see in London and New York
We discuss Matthew Barney, Igshaan Adams, Eileen Agar and Louise Bourgeois