In a move similar to the Nazis’ self-legalised art thefts, ancient gold treasure, paintings and Prince Potemkin’s mummified remains all risk being “preserved” by “evacuation”

Collectors Don and Mera Rubell, who also operate a museum in Miami, have added a major contemporary art space to the US capital’s cultural offerings

Gabriele Finaldi responds to criticism over the gallery's proposed redesign for the Sainsbury Wing

Dutch police have arrested three people at the Mauritshuis in The Hague

Following a contentious few weeks that capped two years of negotiations, workers and administrators are eager to move forward, even if some sore spots remain

The site selections must be approved or rejected by the US Congress by the end of the year

Go ahead given to a restoration project to preserve two historic sites associated with the Jewish community that once resided in Herat

The renovation spearheaded by Studio Gang, details of which were unveiled during a luncheon in New York, will open in the spring of 2023

The seven alabaster reliefs document the military conquests of the Neo-Assyrian King Sennacherib

The work normally lights up the facade of contemporary art gallery Hamburger Bahnhof

The protestors from Letzte Generation took inspiration from a recent stunt that saw Van Gogh's Sunflowers doused in soup

An excerpt from the work of ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus had been erased and written over

Culture will be central to the country's recovery—enabling people to process trauma, share a common identity and articulate shared experiences

A Japanese museum made a major purchase during an evening auction that also saw strong results for a diminutive dog portrait and enormous bird statues

The granddaughter of the oil tycoon J. Paul Getty has donated millions to support activist groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil

A Baptist minister donated a vast archive of Hopper memorabilia to the museum but some question how he acquired the works

Works by the American artist are among the most iconic pieces in MoMA’s collection, yet he has never been the focus of a solo show there

Russia’s foray into international culture stalls as art complex that opened last year sees artists exit and change of direction

Madame du Barry, whose life is the subject of a new Netflix film, was born into poverty and sold trinkets on the streets of Paris before joining court circles in her 20s

The Merz Barn will now likely be sold for commercial development after public funding was refused

Following two years of negotiations and a historic strike by the museum’s unionised workers, employees and leaders agreed to a contract

The Hartwig Art Foundation's institutional space will be run by Beatrix Ruf, the former director of the Stedelijk Museum

The 1983 National Heritage Act was debated in the House of Lords—but the issue of reform will be further discussed ahead of its 40-year anniversary in May 2023

The painting has not been seen in public since it was allegedly bought by the Saudi Crown Prince for $450m in 2017—but the art historian Martin Kemp suggests it may soon be brought "into the light"

The Italian artist's paintings and sculptures were studied ahead of an exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia

The environmental group Just Stop Oil says it attacked the painting in response to the UK government’s inaction on the cost-of-living and climate crises

The exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art features more than 45 works from the Florentine museum

House in London's Kensington includes hundreds of commercial artist Linley Sambourne’s illustrations and cartoons—and (not on view) his pornographic photographs

Plight of British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike, is focal point of protest as hieroglyphs exhibition opens

Archaeologists believe the pre-Columbian wall drawing of a god wearing a feathered headdress likely depicts Tepoztēcatl, the god of pulque