Museums & Heritage
The cost of the cuts: what now for UK museums as the Covid-19 crisis bites?
Museum directors in London and the regions are cutting jobs and slashing budgets, raising concerns for the post-pandemic future of the sector
Gifted to the English city 80 years ago, Coventry's medieval Charterhouse will finally open to the public
After a £4.3m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and years of restoration, the historic priory is set to open this summer
Getty acquires a striking painting by Artemisia Gentileschi of the Roman heroine Lucretia
The museum, which did not disclose the price, says the work reflects a shift to a more idealised style
France gives €500,000 towards reconstruction of Beirut's blast-hit Sursock Museum
French aid will restore the stained-glass windows and Arab salon of the historic villa, which was severely damaged in port explosions last August
Musée d’Orsay in Paris renamed after late French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
The formal name change—an administrative move—also means the Musée de l’Orangerie will be rebranded
Several trustees resign from board of Detroit Institute of Arts as it reaffirms steps to monitor its besieged management
Director Salvador Salort-Pons was faulted in an independent review for authoritarian behaviour and insensitivity to race and gender
Can museums really make digital visits pay?
As venues experiment with selling virtual exhibition tours, talks and workshops online, the key to success may be an emphasis on the expert, bespoke and exclusive
Instagram overtakes Twitter as most popular platform for museums during Covid-19 pandemic
Our global Visitor Figures survey reveals huge growth in followings online as physical doors shut to the public in 2020
Plans to build new Museum of Brexit move ahead with plea for funds and objects
Institution initially called the Museum of Sovereignty will present a balanced picture of the divisive EU debate, say founders
Succession: critics take aim at Louvre chief Jean-Luc Martinez as he seeks reappointment
French president Emmanuel Macron will decide whether to renew or replace the museum's director in the coming weeks
Grayson Perry is casting a bell to ring at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic
As future of London's historic Whitechapel foundry hangs in the balance, artist’s bell will be made elsewhere
Louvre probes its collection for Nazi and colonial loot in massive provenance research project
Museum launches an online catalogue of 485,000 objects while curators comb through wartime acquisitions and works from former colonies
Greece completes long-awaited National Gallery revamp for Independence Day bicentenary
Greek culture minister promises €59m expansion will put the museum "on the map" ahead of public reopening
World's biggest Inuit art collection revealed at Winnipeg's new museum within a museum
Qaumajuq centre aims to reframe Winnipeg Art Gallery’s colonial past with displays of more than 10,000 rarely seen Inuit works
Uffizi Galleries' Botticelli masterpieces—currently kept in storage—are bound for Medici villa in the Tuscan hills
The Uffizi Diffusi project aims to "scatter" works from the Florence museum's collection around overlooked sites across Tuscany on short term loans
First look: Hong Kong's mighty M+ museum building is finally finished
Newly released footage shows the full extent of the vast 65,000 sq. m space and the designs striking use of straight lines and concrete
Baltimore Museum of Art director defends diversity goals that his institution hoped to meet through art sales
At a conference on deaccessioning, Christopher Bedford says that museum collections are “a literal manifestation” of prejudice and privilege
Street artist JR rips off the front of Florence's Palazzo Strozzi in new optical illusion work
Trompe l’oeil image called La Ferita (The Wound) reflects on the difficulties of accessing culture during Covid-19 and reveals Botticelli’s Primavera and The Birth of Venus
Robots and submarines: France's new state-of-the-art ship is a game changer for marine archaeology
Big enough to cross the Atlantic, the high-tech research vessel Alfred Merlin ushers in a new era for French underwater heritage
Victoria and Albert Museum backtracks on plans to cut its National Art Library staff
The announcement was met with public outrage prompting more than 10,000 people to sign a petition against the cuts
Members of US museums association narrowly reject proposal to contemplate a change in guidelines on art sales
Amid debate, AAMD votes 91-88 against exploring a controversial revision of rules to allow proceeds to finance collections care
Los Angeles museums are revving up to reopen
Amid decline in Covid-19 cases, governor lifts a closure mandate that had stirred some dissent
After leak of recording detailing missteps by director, Detroit Institute of Arts says it is working to ensure that he measures up
Inquiry by outside law firm found a climate of retaliation, but museum says that all employees’ concerns will be addressed
Virtual museum law conference shows how the pandemic has affected institutional administration
From dealing with cyberattacks on newly implemented digital offerings, to figuring out how to renegotiate a postponed loan, the coronavirus has raised a whole new crop of issues for museums
In diversity and equity campaign, Walters Art Museum recognises the tarnished history of its founders
Institution issues newly written history that discloses its founders’ pro-Confederacy stance and business ties to racist labour practices in the South
Facing protest, Museum of Chinese in America cancels exhibition about Asian American art collective Godzilla
Members of the collective argue that the museum implicitly supported construction of a jail
Artists withdraw their works from Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago group show
The move is the latest surge of simmering tensions between the museum, its workers and local arts groups
National Trust's report on colonial and slavery history did not breach charity law, regulator says
Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments
Acquisitions round-up: trio of paintings by Italian artist nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia bequeathed to the Met
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
Rose Art Museum, once on the brink of closure, celebrates 60th anniversary with gift of 86 works
After a proposed shutdown and sell-off in 2009, Brandeis University has repaired trust with donors, its director says