Museums & Heritage
Virtual museum law conference shows how the pandemic has affected institutional administration
From dealing with cyberattacks on newly implemented digital offerings, to figuring out how to renegotiate a postponed loan, the coronavirus has raised a whole new crop of issues for museums
In diversity and equity campaign, Walters Art Museum recognises the tarnished history of its founders
Institution issues newly written history that discloses its founders’ pro-Confederacy stance and business ties to racist labour practices in the South
Facing protest, Museum of Chinese in America cancels exhibition about Asian American art collective Godzilla
Members of the collective argue that the museum implicitly supported construction of a jail
Artists withdraw their works from Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago group show
The move is the latest surge of simmering tensions between the museum, its workers and local arts groups
National Trust's report on colonial and slavery history did not breach charity law, regulator says
Research commissioned by the trust provoked complaints from Conservative politicians amid UK culture war around controversial monuments
Acquisitions round-up: trio of paintings by Italian artist nun Orsola Maddalena Caccia bequeathed to the Met
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections
Rose Art Museum, once on the brink of closure, celebrates 60th anniversary with gift of 86 works
After a proposed shutdown and sell-off in 2009, Brandeis University has repaired trust with donors, its director says
Pandemic anniversary: the things museums should learn from our plague year
Although “thumbstoppable” social media content is essential, the online world has dark consequences too, says Tristram Hunt, the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Mexico's culture crisis: pandemic leads to budget cuts that leave many workers unpaid while vanity projects receive millions
The ministry of culture has lost 75% of its funding, threatening the long-term survival of the country’s publicly funded museums and heritage sites
Forging ahead with historic restitution plans, Dutch museums will launch €4.5m project to develop a practical guide on colonial collections
Researchers will consider “various modes of return” for museum objects and how the process can help to reconcile with colonial past
‘Things have to change’: third speaker pulls out of Science Museum Group climate talk in protest against oil sponsorship
Broadcaster Robin Ince joins George Monbiot and Mark Lynas in withdrawing from the Climate Talks event over the UK institution's funding from oil companies BP and Equinor
Wanted: £48k curator to shake up British Museum's permanent displays and ‘give greater prominence to Africa’
London institution is advertising two new job roles to help deliver a radical curatorial initiative known as 'Reimagining the British Museum'
Louvre launches flurry of brand partnerships and ‘e-boutique’ in bid to make up Covid deficit
Deprived of visitors, the world’s most popular museum is striking deals with brands such as Uniqlo to reach international audiences online
Old Masters meet Brutalism: inside Frick Madison in New York
Plus, the story of a notorious forger and artist Collier Schorr on August Sander
In Pictures: an early look inside the Frick Madison
Before the public opening on 18 March, see the startling installation of the museum's Old Masters collection in the Brutalist Breuer building
Frick Collection takes its jewels on a Brutalist sojourn
Evocative surprises await: while its Gilded Age home is closed for renovation and expansion, the Frick displays its masterworks in austere Modernist surroundings on Madison Avenue
'It feels slightly surreal!' German museums can open from Monday—but with complicated caveats
In a surprise ruling, the government prioritises museum openings ahead of restaurants and sports facilities
Archaeologists appeal to Greek prime minister to halt restructuring of five big antiquities museums
Experts oppose culture ministry's proposal to separate Greece's major museums from the state archaeological service
Dr Fauci’s 3-D printed coronavirus model given to Smithsonian
The educational aide will be part of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History
As state restrictions drag on, pressure grows for more California museums to reopen
With lockdown lifted for nail salons and zoos, anger rises over arts institutions’ continued closure, estimated to cost the sector $22m a day
'Autism made me an art historian. But museums must do more to welcome disabled and neurodiverse communities'
Museums were quick to implement Covid-19 safety measures and now they need to apply that same rigour to improving accessibility
Billionaire collector Nicolas Berggruen takes steps to buy historic Venetian palace and turn it into a cultural thinktank
If the sale goes ahead, La Casa dei Tre Oci will be the Berggruen Institute's space for its European programming with plans to partner with major museums such as Tate and MoMA
Travelling Jacob Lawrence show spurs discovery of a second missing painting in New York
Museums now appeal for information on three unlocated panels in the artist’s 1950s Struggle series
UK Budget 2021: further £408m boost for struggling culture sector
Chancellor Rishi Sunak digs deep, adding £300m to the £1.57bn Cultural Recovery Fund, £90m more for museums, and £18m for cultural community projects
Walk through the 2,000-year-old Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome's first emperor
The circular tomb—used through history as a fortress, a sculpture garden and an entertainment venue—reopens as a museum after an €11m restoration
V&A to say goodbye to departments by material—woodwork, metalwork etc—and 20% of its curators
Museum's director Tristram Hunt says that government help has not been enough to cover all costs incurred by pandemic and admits “curators will be more stretched”
Local researchers work to uncover story behind mysterious mural in English church
Residents of a Surrey village are piecing together the history of the colourful and detailed paintings done by a local woman more than 100 years ago
From Goya to Goldin: new museum puts Spanish city of Cáceres on the art world map
Dealer Helga de Alvear has donated her entire collection of 3,000 works, which include pieces by Tacita Dean, Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson and Wassily Kandinsky
Swiss museums can reopen from 1 March as country eases lockdown restrictions
Fondation Beyeler will shows Arp and Rodin while Kunstmuseum Bern has a show on Latin American political art
A gift of blue-chip Modern art comes to the Seattle Art Museum
The Friday Foundation, run by the heirs of collectors Jane Lang Davis and Richard E. Lang, has donated 19 works by artists including Bacon, Rothko, Krasner, Pollock, Frankenthaler, Kline and de Kooning