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

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

US museum builds a permanent research space for its "crown jewel"—more than 1,200 works by Henri Matisse

Recent images show militia taking photographs of artefacts on their mobile phones

Zurich museum's displays of the collection of arms dealer Emil Georg Bührle have prompted criticism and a national debate

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

The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition

The announcement comes as museums worldwide sever ties with members of the Sackler family over their role in the opioid crisis

Jaroslaw Suchan's contract has not been extended by the country's minister of culture

Lifelong documenter of Harlem is the first Black photographer to have entire archive acquired by the New York museum

Trueblood, who will replace David Berliner early next year, has a background in government and public service

Monitoring system that includes drones and sensors will track the impact of extreme weather

Complex that will include a research institute for the Barbados Archives—a 400-year-old documentation of the British transatlantic slave trade

The now-defunct jail once held playwright Oscar Wilde on charges of gross indecency between 1895 and 1897

The museum is “eager to work with the relevant parties in Nigeria” to restitute the sculpture

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

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

National Capital Planning Commission welcomes revisions to Hiroshi Sugimoto’s proposal for an expanded reflecting pool and stacked stone walls

The Cuban American artist on the advanced technology he uses to create his drawings and objects

Discovery announced as part of new excavations that will open up the ancient beachfront to visitors

Among the amenities in the works is an observation space where visitors can watch resident artists at work

Plans to revamp the fire-ravaged cathedral with contemporary art and multilingual projections of Bible quotes have been compared to Disneyland

So far 25 institutions have contributed 8,000 entries; the plan is to expand it and translate it into several languages

Hani Rashid says he was ghosted by the Moscow city government

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco makes four key hires ahead of a series of pop-up events and exhibitions starting in January

Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums

The path, which was rediscovered in 1949, connects the temples of Luxor and Karnak in the east of the country

‘Futures’ inaugurates the renovated Arts and Industries Building with an array of technological wonders ranging from the prosaic to the otherworldly

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