Who had a good year and who had a bad one? We aim to find out

Natural History Museum closes due to front-of-house staff shortages caused by Covid-19

The 1840 profile portrait is part of a collection of early photographic works by Henry Fitz Jr. that is joining the Kansas City museum’s holdings

A London panel has assembled the largest cache of evidence on the concentration camps in Xinjiang, but museums will not say if they have examined it

Kunstmuseum Bern announces results of in-depth provenance investigation of controversial 2014 bequest

Proposal was put forward by 16 Arabic-speaking countries

The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars

The project includes the addition of a multi-storey entrance and lobby, and is being supported with state and city funds

Among the works joining the museum’s collection are paintings by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley as well as a self-portrait by an artist who worked as a preparator at Lacma for decades

Reviving 17th-century Tijou screens commissioned by Protestant monarchs William and Mary means undoing decades of damage and haphazard repairs

Just a year after launching a studio programme in Accra, its ambitious young founder is turning it into a museum

The galleries, housed in the Michael C. Rockefeller wing of the museum, will be modernised to better contextualise the collection and illustrate the ‘complex story of cultural development over the last 5,000 years’

Loan initiative aims to decentralise Italian collections and encourage more people to visit smaller museums

The McMullen Museum of Art is gaining works by Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Albert Bierstadt, and others

Renewal of Abu Dhabi deal means the Louvre can partner with the network of museums planned for Saudi Arabia's AlUla region

The foundation said earlier this year that the “aggressive colours“ covering the walls “violated the harmonies“ of Twombly’s pale blue canopy

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