Museums & Heritage
Come for the art, stay for the night at collector's south of France foundation
Provençal offshoot of Hubert Bonnet’s Brussels art space doubles as a five-room guest house
Appointment of former UK Chancellor George Osborne as new British Museum chairman draws criticism
Ex-politician, who presided over austerity cuts to culture, takes up the position on 4 October
A departure, a side move, and a new appointment: Centre Pompidou in flux as leadership shuffle causes controversy
Belgian art world outraged after curator Kasia Redzisz, who won a vote to be appointed director of Brussels outpost, will have to share the job with current director in Paris, Bernard Blistène
Saint Louis Art Museum appoints its first woman director
Min Jung Kim, who now leads the New Britain Museum of American Art, will succeed 22-year veteran Brent Benjamin
LUMA Arles: boundary-breaking creative campus opens in the south of France with a glittering Gehry jewel in its crown
The initiative aims to collapse the boundaries between art, culture, human rights and environmental issues
Italian Futurist's Rome apartment—a 'total fusion of art and life'—revealed by MaXXI museum
The small flat inhabited and decorated by 20th-century artist Giacomo Balla is open to the public for the first time as part of a new exhibition
'Think first of the walls!' With its tantalising William Morris creations, Emery Walker's House in London reopens
Home boasts the largest collection of the designer's hand-printed wallpapers as well as a wealth of Arts and Crafts treasures
Unesco warns that Stonehenge will go on its danger list unless plans to build tunnel beneath it are modified
World Heritage Site status may also be removed from Liverpool's waterfront after excessive development
The damnation of Venice: locals are being systematically driven out by officials who are selling off sites for tourism
Venetians are leaving the city in thousands because rents are unaffordable, while more than 11% of social housing stands empty
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC announces gift of exceptional photographs dating from the 19th to 21st centuries
Stephen G. Stein’s donation includes notable examples of images by Gustave Le Gray, William Eggleston, Brassaï, Robert Frank, Sally Mann and others
Original 1978 rainbow flag designed by Gilbert Baker acquired by San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society
The banner, thought lost for more than 40 years, was recently authenticated by a vexillographer who had worked with the artist
Revising a mostly white ‘greatest hits’ narrative, Seattle Art Museum will overhaul its American art galleries
Museum invites three artists to serve as co-authors of collection displays and enlists 10 local experts to help generate inclusive stories
Raphaela Platow to take over as director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky
The experienced curator and leader comes from the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, where she grew attendance by 400%
'Geffrye must fall': Labour MP Diane Abbott leads protests demanding slaver statue be removed from London museum
Former UK shadow home secretary led protests at the Museum of the Home in Hoxton, which reopened to the public at the weekend
Paris's landmark Hôtel de la Marine opens to visitors—and co-working offices—after four years of restoration
The 550-room palace has undergone a €132m makeover by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux
Museum hiring rebounds? US institutions announce a string of appointments to leadership and curatorial positions
It is still not clear how quickly the lower levels of staff, which were hardest hit by pandemic job losses, will recover
Robert E. Lee’s former Virginia mansion reopens to the public with an enlightening focus on the enslaved
Arlington House, where wealthy white privilege contrasts with bondage and suffering, has undergone a $12.3m rehabilitation and reinterpretation
London's Courtauld Gallery to reopen in November with new exhibition spaces and a commission by Cecily Brown
LVMH Great Room and Blavatnik Fine Rooms reflect generous backing from sponsors
Paris's indebted Fan Museum at risk of folding
Income losses during the pandemic have pushed the private museum and fan-making workshop to the brink
Home truths: east London's museum of domestic life emerges from lockdown after £18.8m makeover
Museum of the Home reopens on 12 June with double the public space in its 18th-century almshouse buildings
Centre Pompidou plans to open a satellite museum in Jersey City in 2024
The venue, the French institution’s first in North America, will exhibit borrowed works and serve as an “art laboratory”
Neglected corners of US history: National Trust for Historic Preservation designates 11 most endangered places
Places range from Alabama farms where civil rights marchers once camped to a Utah site where Chinese railroad labourers stayed
Minneapolis Institute of Art announces over $19m in gifts, including funds for a diversity officer, Latin American curator and deputy director
Museum, under pressure to embrace equity while facing revenue losses, says the money will shore up its endowment and operating budget
Pressure mounts for Italy to buy Torlonia marbles—world's finest collection of Greco-Roman antiquities still in private hands
As a landmark exhibition in Rome draws to a close, government's plans for long-hidden group of ancient sculpture remain unclear
Whitney voluntarily recognises a union local, sparing employees the need to organise a vote
From curators to porters, more than 180 workers are involved in the effort as labour campaigns multiply among US art institutions
Calls for reparations lead the commemoration of Tulsa Massacre
US President Biden acknowledged during visit that "some injustices are so heinous… they cannot be buried"
Stand by your man—or don’t: Ragnar Kjartansson will dissect the patriarchy of pop music at the Guggenheim for Independence Day
Women and non-binary musician will perform non-stop love songs in the museum’s rotunda over the holiday weekend
After warnings that a third of US museums could close, a survey indicates that just 15% are at significant risk
Poll conducted in April yields optimism that financial fallout from the pandemic will be less severe than feared
Door still open to Hermitage Barcelona after city council calls for revised project
Ongoing negotiations for a new satellite of the Russian museum will focus on a collaboration with the Barcelona opera house
The Greenwood Massacre, America’s ‘single worst incident of racial violence’, is remembered 100 years on
The historic example of domestic terrorism, when white mobs killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed businesses, finally gets due recognition