The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the country’s largest museum devoted to Canadian art, has also received $18m from the federal government toward the renovation and expansion project

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo

The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937

Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer

Politicians in the city say the “inadequate” display of the mixed-media piece depicting Giuseppe Pinelli, who died after falling out of a police station window, fails to properly confront a dark chapter in the city’s history

The longtime curator of arms and armour has served as the museum’s chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since January 2024

A Veronese show in May is set to be latest in long line of Renaissance Venice crowd-pleasers for the Spanish institution

Amid a backlash by locals fed up with party-loving visitors, the city’s tourism authority has teamed up with museums to promote a series of exhibitions

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a selection of his most captivating works to see in the city all year round

If everything goes according to plan, the buildout will open just before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze

A Trump executive order aimed at cracking down on vandalism in Washington, DC has turned up the heat on climate protests

As part of Canada’s national nature prescription programme, healthcare professionals can send visitors to the gallery in support of their psychological wellbeing

The initiative, already underway and continuing through May 2026, comes as the Trump administration has pressured arts funders and institutions to prioritise semiquincentennial projects

Jimmy Donaldson, who has nearly 400 million followers on the video-streaming platform, shot a viral video in Giza, which may be helping to educate a new audience

Frances Morris says she will be regaining a climate advocacy role at a crucial moment

Analysing the highs and lows of our recent attendance survey, plus a tour of a show exploring how the UK’s most famous Victorian designer ”went viral”, and a chat about the ways Henri Matisse’s daughter shaped his life and art

Downtown commercial galleries were also among those to make the decision as police prepared for potential political violence

Faced with anti-immigrant policies, institutional leaders are providing “know your rights” guidance

Jorge and Darlene Pérez will also fund curatorial endowment and have pledged to make a donation of African art

Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has affirmed in a memo to staff that the institution will “remain steadfast in our mission to bring history, science, education, research and the arts to all Americans”

Housed in one of the historic Jane Addams Homes, the new museum aims to challenge perceptions about the sector

The museum’s inaugural programming in its new 14-storey wing chronicles and builds on the museum’s 78-year legacy

Restoration and preservation projects in countries from Sierra Leone to Ukraine are now at risk following US government’s sudden cuts to aid funding

The museum, which houses artefacts dating back millennia, has been caught in the crossfire of the civil war raging in the North African country

Inaugurated in January by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the revamped yet unfinished galleries devoted to Mexico’s living Indigenous cultures reflect the dominant party’s agenda, not scholarship or a curatorial vision

Damage and destruction decimated visitor numbers to cultural events and institutions last year but optimism is high they will return in 2025

As Republicans and the Trump administration target DEI initiatives and queer and trans communities, vocal leaders at a few institutions are standing firm

The museum will be the only US venue for the exhibition, which brings together more than 200 objects including participatory installations and performance documentation