The 2,400-year-old remains of tea leaves were discovered in a royal tomb in Shandong province

There’s a campaign against discussions of race in the American education system—and museums have a part to play in fighting that

Government museums body takes control of repatriated artefacts after ruler of Benin challenges new trust set up to unify Nigerian claimants

Shepparton Art Museum opened late last year but a ballooning budget and conflicting local politics have made led to a mixed reception

In a trio of current and upcoming exhibitions, the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University will showcase prints, paintings and a sonic environment that champion underrepresented narratives

A dozen boxes of materials found in the Museum of Modern Art’s library served as the impetus for a new exhibition on the legacy of the Artists Call group at Tufts University Art Galleries

Covid continued to impact on French museum visits, but the government provided a much-needed financial safety net

The council of state upheld a previous ruling preventing the fast food chain from opening at the popular heritage site

New law will set up expert commission to sift through thousands of objects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa

Negotiations have been delayed, with wages proving a major sticking point and with administrators proposing increases well below union members’ demands

The Metropolitan Museum will stay opened at reduced capacity, while others like the Yale University Art Gallery and the Baltimore Museum of Art close temporarily

Despite challenges wrought by the pandemic and earthquake-caused damage to its building, the museum has a new director and new momentum

Obata was incarcerated at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah during the Second World War; now 35 of his works have been acquired by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Who had a good year and who had a bad one? We aim to find out

Natural History Museum closes due to front-of-house staff shortages caused by Covid-19

The 1840 profile portrait is part of a collection of early photographic works by Henry Fitz Jr. that is joining the Kansas City museum’s holdings

A London panel has assembled the largest cache of evidence on the concentration camps in Xinjiang, but museums will not say if they have examined it

Kunstmuseum Bern announces results of in-depth provenance investigation of controversial 2014 bequest

Proposal was put forward by 16 Arabic-speaking countries

The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars

The project includes the addition of a multi-storey entrance and lobby, and is being supported with state and city funds

Among the works joining the museum’s collection are paintings by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley as well as a self-portrait by an artist who worked as a preparator at Lacma for decades

Reviving 17th-century Tijou screens commissioned by Protestant monarchs William and Mary means undoing decades of damage and haphazard repairs

Just a year after launching a studio programme in Accra, its ambitious young founder is turning it into a museum

The galleries, housed in the Michael C. Rockefeller wing of the museum, will be modernised to better contextualise the collection and illustrate the ‘complex story of cultural development over the last 5,000 years’

Loan initiative aims to decentralise Italian collections and encourage more people to visit smaller museums

The McMullen Museum of Art is gaining works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, and others

Renewal of Abu Dhabi deal means the Louvre can partner with the network of museums planned for Saudi Arabia's AlUla region

The foundation said earlier this year that the “aggressive colours“ covering the walls “violated the harmonies“ of Twombly’s pale blue canopy

The Smithsonian commissioned the composer to create a performance responding to an exhibition of objects from the illustrious Tibetan Buddhist art collection of Alice Kandell