Museums & Heritage
Buddhist composer Philip Glass in dialogue with a storied Tibetan art collection
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
Museums and heritage in 2021: pandemic woes and African treasures
We look back on a year of museums commandeered as Covid-19 vaccine centres, masterpieces sold as NFTs and much talk over the Benin bronzes
'Heart of Matisse': new study centre dedicated to Modern master opens at Baltimore Museum of Art
US museum builds a permanent research space for its "crown jewel"—more than 1,200 works by Henri Matisse
National Museum of Afghanistan reopens—but staff are unpaid and Taliban are guarding the treasures
Recent images show militia taking photographs of artefacts on their mobile phones
Swiss parliament urged to take action on Nazi-looted art amid Kunsthaus Zurich controversy
Zurich museum's displays of the collection of arms dealer Emil Georg Bührle have prompted criticism and a national debate
The Netherlands looks set to buy Rembrandt’s €165m 'Standard Bearer'
Owned by the Rothschild family, the vibrant painting is on the open market after France was unable to raise the funds to buy the national treasure
Van Gogh gets a facelift: conservation of self-portrait to be revealed in London
The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition
Metropolitan Museum drops Sackler name from its galleries
The announcement comes as museums worldwide sever ties with members of the Sackler family over their role in the opioid crisis
Right-wing takeover of Poland's museums continues as Museum of Art in Łodz is latest cultural institution facing change of leadership
Jaroslaw Suchan's contract has not been extended by the country's minister of culture
Archive of James Van Der Zee, once-ignored chronicler of Harlem, acquired by the Met
Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum
Brooklyn Museum appoints KP Trueblood as its new president and chief operating officer
Trueblood, who will replace David Berliner early next year, has a background in government and public service
Pompeii turns to tech to protect ancient site against climate change damage
Monitoring system that includes drones and sensors will track the impact of extreme weather
David Adjaye plans slavery museum in Barbados as new republic severs ties with Britain
Complex that will include a research institute for the Barbados Archives—a 400-year-old documentation of the British transatlantic slave trade
Banksy will sell jailbreak stencil for £10m to turn Reading prison into art centre
The now-defunct jail once held playwright Oscar Wilde on charges of gross indecency between 1895 and 1897
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC plans to return looted Benin cockerel to Nigeria
The museum is “eager to work with the relevant parties in Nigeria” to restitute the sculpture
Shock as Janusz Janowski appointed new director of Poland’s leading Zacheta National Gallery of Art by right-wing culture minister
Most recent hire without an open competition is viewed by critics as latest step in government's agenda of placing conservative appointees in control of cultural institutions
'Frightening' price tag and soap opera drama: Moscow’s GES-2 House of Culture opens opposite Kremlin
Power plant arts centre backed by Russian billionaire makes its long-awaited debut with a “dream exhibition” for Ragnar Kjartansson and a carnival in four acts
Federal agency approves disputed redesign of Hirshhorn Museum’s Modernist sculpture garden
National Capital Planning Commission welcomes revisions to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s proposal for an expanded reflecting pool and stacked stone walls
Jorge Pardo: ‘I don’t draw by hand anymore’
The Cuban American artist on the advanced technology he uses to create his drawings and objects
Remains of 'last fugitive' killed by Mount Vesuvius eruption unearthed at Herculaneum
Discovery announced as part of new excavations that will open up the ancient beachfront to visitors
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