Museums & Heritage
A museum exhibition on Woody Guthrie proves the artist’s message is as relevant today as during the Depression era
The show includes original artwork, handwritten lyrics, musical instruments and previously unpublished written works.
Mexican activists hack Viennese museum’s audioguide in protest over its ownership of the Montezuma headdress
Repeated requests by Mexican politicians to return the crown have been rebuffed
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s studio building donated to Whitney Museum
The building, just a few blocks from the museum, will be renovated and used as a permanent home for the Whitney’s Independent Study Program
New €35m Kunsthalle Praha gallery backed by private collectors opens in the Czech capital
Former electric substation converted into contemporary art hub by Pudil Family Foundation
Climate activists present mock Stonehenge drilling plan at British Museum amid rumours institution will renew contract with BP
BP or not BP demonstrated against the museum's partnership with the oil giant over the weekend
Storm Eunice damages UK heritage sites and forces museums and galleries to close
Cultural sites turn away visitors while iconic architecture is “shredded to pieces” by storm
London's National Gallery releases first images of major redevelopment plan
Ahead of a public consultation on the £25m-£30m project, further details of the Selldorf Architects redesign of the Sainsbury Wing entrance have been unveiled
'Nothing is as therapeutic these days as writing a grant proposal': Ukraine's museums batten down the hatches as war looms
As tension with Russia escalates, institutions near the border are checking their security systems and considering their evacuation plans
Blockbuster British Museum exhibition will 'roll away' mysteries surrounding Stonehenge
Modern science and archaeological recontextualisation of the site will answer some long-looming questions, museum director Hartwig Fischer says
Venice's great women artists step into the limelight through major restoration project
New initiative by Save Venice will focus on more than 30 female artists who worked in the region between the 16th and 18th centuries, from Marietta Robusti to Rosalba Carriera
National Gallery of Canada launches an Indigenous ways and decolonisation department
The new department, which pursue greater inclusivity and representation of Indigenous perspectives and art, will be led by Michelle LaVallee and Steven Loft
'Laboratory of the future': Rome's Maxxi museum unveils plans for new R&D centre, green spaces and solar energy
Sustainable masterplan will cover Zaha Hadid building in solar panels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Eternal return: Italian museums to sell digital copies of masterpieces by Leonardo, Caravaggio and Modigliani
Replicas of works from four institutions, including the Uffizi, will be sold as NFTs by Unit London gallery
German museums foundation returns ancestral human remains in Berlin collection to Hawaii
A group of skulls is being handed over to a Native Hawaiian group during a mission this month to receive dozens of items from German and Austrian museums
'We are under the water, but we can dream': Inside Madagascar's first contemporary art centre
Ambitious new gallery Hakanto Contemporary sets out to boost art scene of island nation—but with many of its residents experiencing the effects of devastating floods, is culture really top of their list?
Baltimore Museum of Art director Christopher Bedford will leave to lead SFMoMA
Bedford, like his SFMoMA predecessor Neal Benezra, very publicly ran afoul of industry conventions around deaccessioning and selling works from museum collections
The ‘most important piece of prehistoric art’ found in Britain in a century will go on view at the British Museum
The 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture was discovered on a country estate near the village of Burton Agnes in East Yorkshire
Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley will collapse in the next ten years if looting and neglect continue, former Unesco representative warns
An increase in illegal development and excavations is damaging the structural integrity of the World Heritage Site that has stood for more than 1,000 years
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston to expand its Islamic art galleries
The museum’s Islamic art collection spans more than 1,400 pieces as well as important long-term loans
How Nari Ward’s hearse installation went from the Whitney Biennial to a permanent home (with a detour via partial destruction)
Ward re-created the funerary work in 2020, decades after a standout debut at the Whitney Biennial; it has now been acquired by the Baltimore Museum of Art
Tate's U-turn on Sacklers
The museum will remove the opioid sellers’ name from multiple locations
First director picked to lead Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino
Jorge Zamanillo, currently the executive director and chief executive of HistoryMiami Museum, will lead the new Washington, DC museum through planning and construction
Have archaeologists discovered Captain Cook's ship Endeavour? Experts in the US and Australia fight it out
The director of Sydney’s Australian National Maritime Museum announced that he is "convinced" it is the long-lost vessel, while the director of Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project says the findings are not conclusive
After years of wrangling, Australia commits $228m to build a landmark centre for Indigenous culture
Ngurra precinct in Canberra will provide a home for returned ancestral remains in the heart of the capital
Why Macron's radical promise to return African treasures has stalled
Four years after a landmark pledge to hand back colonial loot, French government has opposed a new restitution bill backed by the Senate
Museum devoted to George Grosz to open in a former Berlin petrol station
The privately funded museum is to be led by Ralph Jentsch, the managing director of the Grosz estate
State of the unions: why US museum workers are mobilising against their employers
With the arts sector increasingly vulnerable in the wake of the pandemic, a new breed of digitally optimised worker is emerging
Aliph global protection fund raises $90m for next round of heritage projects
Donors include Saudi Arabia, which gave $30m, and private bodies
Accused of 'cancel culture', Dresden museums defend renaming works
The Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) has altered 143 work titles since 2020, a decision that has been met with resistance by Germany's right-wing political parties
Berlin's 'hidden museum' that championed forgotten women artists closes down after almost 40 years
Das Verborgene Museum is passing on its archive and research mission to the Berlinische Galerie