Protestors from the Letzte Generation group have glued themselves to works by Rubens, Poussin and Cranach

Aleksandr Vasiliev had used a ballpoint pen to draw eyes on the stylised figures in a painting by avant-garde artist Anna Leporskaya

The museum's board chair and its recently appointed interim director have both resigned as the fallout from an FBI raid in June continues

The International Council of Museums says revised protocol will allow it to more readily “address conflicts”—and could lead to the expulsion of Russia from the organisation

The Sydney Modern Project—due to open in December—is the Australian city’s largest cultural development since the creation of its opera house

The 50-year-old statement has been overhauled at the International Council of Museums conference in Prague today

Opening on 21 January 2023, the new International African American Museum will include ways for Black Americans to research their ancestry

Exhibition builds on a project to document Ukraine's monumental and contested public art created during Soviet era

The Qattarat al-Imam Ali shrine, a popular pilgrimage destination, collapsed on 20 August after rubble from a landslide struck its roof

The Cultural Property Advisory Committee guides the US Department of State on import restrictions for artefacts and emergency actions related to cultural property

The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is home to masterpieces by the Italian Medieval painter Giotto

The former Egyptian antiquities minister leans into the current restitution conversation, calling again for the return of three prized antiquities from European museums

Unionised employees of the North Adams, Massachusetts museum sought to pressure the institution’s administration amid ongoing contract negotiations

Isamu Noguchi’s live-work space, located across the street from his namesake museum, will undergo much-needed renovations to become accessible for public tours

More than 500 standing stones were catalogued by archaeologists working on the 7,000-year-old site

At the ICOM conference in Prague, leaders will be told traditional planning could be a liability when addressing modern human rights issues

The group is funded by the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund

The Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou will shut its exhibition space on 9 October

The Peale Museum, considered the first “purpose-built” museum in North America, reopens with a contemporary and local focus

The centre, whose art collection is one of the richest in historic and Modern Black art, will put the state funds toward major improvements to its building

Allston had previously advised the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in devising its land acknowledgement agreement

The two works, given to the museum in the 1990s, were looted from temples in Kathmandu according to recent internal provenance research

The pole was stolen in 1929 and, if returned, would be only the second totem pole to be repatriated to a First Nation by a European institution

A new report highlights the risks posed by resource extraction near sites that are of sacred to Indigenous groups and have enormous archaeological significance

Research on the Chandayan of Mulla Da’ud has suffered ever since 24 folios narrating the love story were split up across the border in 1947

It will be India's second institution dedicated to the mass displacement of 1947

The group of figures, known as “Orpheus and the Sirens”, is one of four artefacts the museum is repatriating to Italy based on new evidence

Scholar says the new discovery is "significant" as 233 objects are sent to the Iraq Museum

Major restitution development coincides with publication of new Arts Council England guidelines

Planned for completion in 2030, the revamp will include redeveloping the neoclassical Pagliere building for temporary exhibitions and storage