Museums & Heritage
Whitney Museum acquires 88 works by biennial artists
Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders
Meadows Museum in Dallas teams up with local and Madrid opera companies
Opera sets will evoke the museum’s collection, and soloists will perform at the museum
Jayne Wrightsman leaves over 375 works of art and $80m to the Met
From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all
Moving to the suburbs: vast museum collections centre destined for 'New Moscow'
State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka
UK national museums could learn a lot from their regional cousins
When it comes to having a historian rummaging in their stores, smaller institutions tend to be more enthusiastic and accommodating
From the archive | Louvre pyramid architect I.M. Pei on the church-like museum he designed for the Goulandris collection
In this 1994 interview, he reveals how he likes art to be displayed, such as natural lighting for Impressionists
Goulandris collection of Modern masterworks finally revealed in new Athens museum
Dream museum of collectors Basil and Elise Goulandris brought to life almost three decades after original proposal
Interview | Lonnie Bunch on founding the Smithsonian's African American history museum and drawing inspiration from Lincoln
As his new book is released, the new secretary of the Smithsonian Institution talks of extending its reach beyond Washington
London's National Gallery launches public campaign to fund last £2m to buy Orazio Gentileschi masterpiece
The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II
Google and Lin-Manuel Miranda team up on a project to share Puerto Rican art online
Digitisation effort draws on works from four institutions in a push for cultural preservation
Building Bridge-s: Solange Knowles curates a two-day programme of performances, films and talks at the Getty Center in Los Angeles
Los Angeles's Marciano Art Foundation lays off staff trying to unionise
The private museum cited low attendance records over the past few weeks in a short letter to nearly six dozen workers who recently announced they voted to join a union
Former Stedelijk director Beatrix Ruf will head to Moscow's Garage Museum
The German curator was previously accused of conflicting interests between the Amsterdam museum and her private consulting work
Museum dedicated to Picasso and Giacometti to launch in Beijing
Paris-based institutions Musée National Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti will open space in 798 district next June
Museums must engage more with Indigenous peoples
There is a direct connection between how predominantly white curators have categorised Indigenous peoples as part of “natural history” and how we are misrepresented in contemporary art spaces
London’s National Portrait Gallery to close for three years with ‘some job losses’
Museum plans to send 300 portraits a year on tour around the country during £35.5m redevelopment
Women artists take over museum schedules in 2020 to coincide with US presidential election
Coalition of curators organise events and exhibitions of art by women at 50 museums
Castle opening crowns £150m revival of Bishop Auckland
Millionaire Jonathan Ruffer’s ambitious regeneration of a small former mining town in northern England reveals 1,000 years of history and art
Orlando chooses its memorial to Pulse shooting victims
More than three years after the massacre, a winning design has been selected for a $45m museum and memorial campus, but some survivors and victims’ families would rather it stay unbuilt.
A US-China-Arab partnership: Lacma, Yuz Museum and Qatar Museums team up on exhibition projects
The Los Angeles and Shanghai institutions say their joint foundation is still in progress
London's Roundhouse turns down £1m Sackler grant
The arts and performance venue has refused to accept a £1m grant from the Sackler Trust because of risk it would "distract from its work with young people"
MoMA gears up for its next big collection rehang
After grand expansion, New York museum is already planning to swap out more than 700 works next spring
Lucas Museum names a Met department chairman as its new director
Sandra Jackson-Dumont will take over in January as leader of George Lucas’s $1bn project in Los Angeles
Paris to build temporary venue near Eiffel Tower to host Grand Palais's shows when it closes in 2021
Culture chief Chris Dercon says the new space will hold events during the museum's three-year refurbishment, including a collaboration with Unesco
Parasol Unit to close east London gallery
From next spring the foundation will hold exhibitions "in whatever part of the world I feel the dialogue is needed”, says founder Ziba Ardalan
In a conservation triumph, a 15th-century tapestry highlights the age of chivalry
“It’s the most spectacular representation of a tournament of that time,” a Met curator says
Russian billionaire's huge Moscow art hub—designed by Renzo Piano—will open in September 2020
Leonid Mikhelson says that the "frightening" cost that he had initially anticipated for the GES-2 complex has doubled
Celebrating a French artist who captured a young America
Exhibition profiles the intrepid Baroness Hyde de Neuville, who chased down Napoleon and was friendly with America's founding fathers—and never stopped drawing
As protests rage in Iraq, experts say culture is key to long-term reconstruction
Iraqi culture ministry announces new national museum in Baghdad as Mosul restoration plan is extended to historic churches
Dissecting a gallery in a remade MoMA
Among the most striking examples of the museum's more global and inclusive approach is a gallery with the theme War Within, War Without