Alyssa Nitchun hopes to advance New York museum’s role as a queer sanctuary and “provocateur”

Researchers at C2RMF give an exclusive preview of their forensic study of all the artist's works in French museum collections

But arts professionals heavily criticise the government decision, saying there is “no logic” behind the move

Arts organisation Neon are working on the project with the Greek government to mark 200 years since the country’s liberation from the Ottoman Empire

City hopes the $230m new building will raise its profile as an art destination to match Basel

From a steam cog railway to the baroque Venetian palazzo abandoned by the Armenians , Europa Nostra chooses candidates for its 2021 Seven Most Endangered Sites list

Utah Republican says that such museums would “divide an already divided nation”

High-risk patients get Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at Thackray Museum of Medicine

Campaign, which hopes to turn the Oxford home into a literary centre, has been backed by actors from the film adaptation Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman

Rem Koolhaas’ Factory arts hub in Manchester—scheduled for completion in 2022—gets £21m grant

Connections have been made between the Colby College Museum of Art’s Man with a Flowered Coat and portraits of the 17th-century commander Sayyid Muzzafar in international collections

Former minister Rachida Dati calls on Emmanuel Macron to authorise the change

Describing the donation as the most significant to the department in nearly 80 years, museum will rename galleries after the philanthropist

Visitor numbers will take years to recover with a drastic impact on income, the London institution reports

The 25-year-old Japanese self-taught artist’s densely layered Yokai is his first piece to enter a museum’s collection

After decades of neglect, a fundraising drive could restore Prinkipo Orphanage as an environmental research centre

The objects were seized by police from places of worship at a time when the practice of religions such as Candomble and Umbanda was a crime. They will now be housed at the Museu da Republica in Rio de Janeiro and displayed with guidance from religious representatives

Inaugural exhibition in New York will feature a film and light sculptures by Lucy Raven

Alarmed post-colonial researchers have raised concerns over plans to open Museo Italo Africano "Ilaria Alpi" in late 2021

The famous architect attended Nazi rallies in his youth and openly made anti-Semitic and white supremacist comments

Director assumes the mantle after an expansion and long coronavirus shutdown

The much loved leader is remembered for his unpretentiousness and his warmth, as well as his pioneering vision

The winning design is meant to be both a centrepiece of Halifax’s burgeoning waterfront arts district and an earnest symbol of reconciliation, the project leads say

The disposal of objects from museum collections has been a source of controversy for decades. Did 2020 mark a turning point in the debate?

Though African institutions want looted artefacts to return home, they are more preoccupied with promoting living artists and treasures

We speak to museum experts András Szántó and Sonia Lawson. Plus, Dan Hicks on the legacy of colonial looting and National Gallery curator Christopher Riopelle on the Polish painter Jan Matejko

International museum leaders are confronting manifold challenges in the wake of Covid-19 and innovating in six principal ways, writes András Szántó

Turbulent year draws to a close with sector wracked by pandemic lockdowns and Black Lives Matter challenges

The Society of Antiquaries is launching a campaign to stay in historic home of Burlington House, close to Piccadilly

Plaster casts were made of the newly discovered victims of Vesuvius eruption, which are believed to have been a wealthy landowner and his slave