Museums & Heritage
Bitterly contested trove of Crimean gold artefacts must return to Ukraine, not Russia, Dutch court rules
Ancient artefacts were on loan to Amsterdam museum when Crimea was annexed in 2014
Ancient gold ewer returned to Turkey after V&A expert links it to illicit antiquities trade
The piece was part of the Gilbert Collection which is not bound by the same legal restrictions around deaccessioning as the London museum
England's culture sector to receive £850m in extra funding from Treasury
The budget, to be announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on Wednesday, has earmarked £300m for museums to "redevelop and refurbish their sites"
Chinese heritage sites see boost from local tourists as pandemic closes borders
The travel restrictions—and political encouragement—have driven increasing domestic demand for cultural travel experiences in China, prompting concerns over preservation
As the Photographers’ Gallery in London turns 50, we look at five of its defining shows
The institution's director Brett Rogers has selected five key shows from the past five decades
Centre Pompidou's three-year closure delayed until after the Paris Olympics—but will it now miss its own 50th anniversary?
Crucial renovations will happen after the games in 2024, putting a question mark over whether the gallery will be open for its 50-year celebrations in 2027
'Most important gift in recent decades': trove of works by Kandinsky, Otto Dix and Max Ernst donated to Städel Museum in Frankfurt
The bequest from the estate of the German photographer Ulrike Crespo includes 90 works and will go on show in November.
Denver’s Gio Ponti-designed Art Museum gets a $150m revamp and a remix
Campus expansion opens up “standoffish” building and inspires a total rehang of the encyclopaedic art collections
Queens Museum director on its transformative expansion and learning from the pandemic
Led by Sally Tallant, the community-focused museum is building a new educational centre thanks to a $26.4m grant from New York City
French art foundation unveils plans for mobile museum on board a €32m catamaran
Art Explora, set up by the tech entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset, will launch the vessel in 2023 with a tour around the Mediterranean
Cristina Iglesias creates new cave-like sculpture for Malta's first contemporary art museum
Commissioned work—currently on view in a public garden in Valetta—will move to the Malta International Contemporary Art Space sculpture garden after it opens in 2023
'Forget everything you know about museums—this is different': Oslo's enormous Munch museum is ready to open after a decade of setbacks
The 13-floor new building by the fjord rehomes the Norwegian master's vast bequest of 28,000 works
Berlin museum restitutes—and then buys back—Nazi-looted Pissarro painting
The work was bought by Armand Dorville, a Jewish lawyer, but his heirs were forced to sell it at an auction in France
Italian mayor launches underwater excavation to find third Riace bronze
Town of Riace is planning a museum, while a new investigation hopes to confirm whether there are more ancient Greek statues to be found
New blood reinvigorates MoMA leadership
The museum has appointed four impressive women who are breathing new life into the curatorial, education and outreach divisions, including 23-year MoMA veteran Sarah Suzuki.
Small Northern English town gets UK’s first museum dedicated to Spanish art and culture
Many pieces on show in the Spanish Gallery are from the personal collection of financier Jonathan Ruffer, the main backer of a £150m regeneration project in Bishop Auckland
Hubert van Eyck, Jan’s older brother, painted parts of the Ghent Altarpiece
New research indicates Hubert started the work but had to stop, so Jan took over
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive staff grows with Christina Yang as new chief curator
The museum’s director Julie Rodrigues Widholm has made several senior-level hires in her first year
Yale Center for British Art tries to identify enslaved Black child in 18th-century portrait of an early university benefactor
So far, the museum has not determined who the boy is, but it has reidentified other figures in the controversial painting, which is about to go back on view
Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus
Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove
New Mass MoCA director pledges to ‘honour the past and build from there’
Kristy Edmunds replaces Joseph C. Thompson after lengthy period of layoffs and new staff union over pandemic
Prado extension designed by Norman Foster finally gets the green light
First proposed in 1995, the project has faced multiple delays
London’s Museum of Childhood to be renamed the Young V&A following £13m renovation
East End institution will no longer cater to adults “revelling in nostalgia” and rather be focussed on those aged up to 14 years old
Contemporary paintings will hang with the Frick’s Old Masters in new art series
Doron Langberg will pair off with Hans Holbein, and Salman Toor will join Vermeer in the Breuer building this week
Geneva museum director fights attempt to oust him
Around 100 scholars have signed a petition to the city’s mayor arguing that Marc-Olivier Wahler is not the right person to run the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
New York’s Hispanic Society gears up for its second act
The museum and libarary in northern Manhattan has a new director with a packed agenda—and some needed improvements on its horizon
National Gallery of Australia commissions its most expensive ever piece of art
Lindy Lee's A$14m sculpture will be one of the country's first environmentally sustainable public works
Conservative party donor John Booth appointed chair of London's National Gallery
Philanthropist succeeds Tony Hall, who stepped down following row over Princess Diana interview
Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong sets new opening date for long-delayed Abu Dhabi museum
New deputy director Naomi Beckwith says "we can re-centre where the stories of art are told"
K-Pop superstars BTS help present gift from Korean government to the Metropolitan Museum
The set of five richly coloured lacquer vessels by artist Chung Haecho will go on show in the New York museum this December