Museums & Heritage
From dangerous erotica to secret smoking canteens: ten things you didn't know about The British Museum
Behind its ordered, Neo-Classical façade, the London institution has been home to plenty of intrigue and eccentricity
London's Royal Academy announces plans to close Collection Gallery until 2027
The gallery will be redeveloped by David Chipperfield Architects, who will add a 12-metre-high space with a mezzanine
Former MoMA chief voices concern for future of non-profit US museums
Speaking to ‘The Art World: What If…?!’ podcast, Glenn Lowry also discussed plans for a new museum directors leadership initiative, and delivered his verdict on his successor
New Frida Kahlo museum, focused on the artist's youth and family life, opens in Mexico City
Museo Casa Kahlo is located a short walk from the popular Casa Azul museum in the Coyoacán neighbourhood, in a home long owned by members of the Kahlo family
Possible medieval artefacts, discovered at Canadian thrift store, will form basis of university archaeology class
Students at a Vancouver university will analyse the designs and materials with a view to identifying where and when the items originate from
Historic architecture is celebrated in new Onera Foundation venue in Connecticut
The first show at the new space, opening on 1 October, is inspired by the Eero Saarinen-designed US Embassy in Oslo
Museum dedicated to Indian Modernist M.F. Husain to open in Qatar
The institution in Doha will featured the celebrated—and sometimes controversial—late artist’s paintings, films, tapestries and more
How growing political interference is eroding the independence of European museums
Many institutions are adopting a practice of “strategic silence” to protect funding and avoid censure
Low morale, fast staff turnover: why the credibility of Louisiana’s ten state museums is at risk
Following years of strife and multiple leadership changes, will these important institutions meet the rigorous standards set by the American Alliance of Museums?
Unesco’s Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects goes live
The digital project, which was funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presents looted objects in 3D form
A Sharjah site which sheds light on the first humans to leave Africa has been listed by Unesco
University of California, Irvine completes takeover of Orange County Museum of Art
As part of the acquisition, the institution has been renamed the UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art
Vancouver Art Gallery selects architects for second attempt at new building
After abandoning a costly design by Swiss starchitects, the museum has picked Vancouver-based Formline Architecture and Urbanism and Toronto-based KPMB Architects to take on the project
How nature is helping a rural French arts centre to reduce its carbon footprint
The Centre International d’Art et du Paysage—Île de Vassivière is drawing on both its natural and man-made surroundings for inspiration
Comment | Cuts to UK church budgets are hastening a heritage timebomb—and placing sites of refuge at risk
Recent changes to the grant regime for listed places of worship are a UK heritage crisis in the making
Peru protests leave hundreds of tourists stranded at Machu Picchu
A labour dispute involving one of the country's major rail routes has left visitors to the famed Unesco World Heritage site in the lurch
New Museum’s longtime director to retire after building expansion opens
Lisa Phillips, who has led the museum through two major construction projects, will step down in April
Museums and ethics, Fra Angelico in Florence, Cornelia Parker’s PsychoBarn—podcast
Unpacking the issues facing cultural institutions today, plus chats about a Renaissance blockbuster and a ”cut-up” architectural installation in Basel
A brush with… Roxana Marcoci, curator, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art, says the acting chief curator and senior curator of photography at MoMA, is about considering what it means to be human
The ancient city of Carthage is under attack again—and this time the enemy is climate change
Environmental damage is increasingly visible at the ruins of the former trading hub, located in modern-day Tunisia
Outrage over heritage listing of temple in Mexico tied to sex-abuse scandal
La Luz del Mundo’s flagship church in Guadalajara is a unique structure, but should architectural value (and politics) override ethical concerns?
Dog in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch was copied from widely available book, suggests new research
The discovery comes as the masterpiece by the Dutch artist is undergoing a long-term public restoration at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
Mexico City’s major art museums closed amid union dispute
The two-day closure earlier this month stemmed from a structural crisis in Mexico’s cultural sector
Calder Gardens opens this weekend in Philadelphia
The long-awaited project is not a museum but a contemplative, multi-sensory space—or an underground cathedral
London's Postal Museum launches collaboration with victims of Post Office Horizon scandal
The group of sub-postmasters will work with the museum to tell their own stories, in their own words
Full steam ahead: world’s first rail journey to be re-enacted for 200th anniversary
A newly restored replica of Locomotion No. 1, which was designed in 1825, will run along the first public track later this month
Climate change threatens Indigenous ceramic tradition in Brazil
Local Waurá activists have taken the Brazilian government to task for complacency towards global warming as their ancestral pottery practice becomes harder to maintain
Louvre and Grand Palais among French museums closed due to nationwide strikes
Cultural sites including the Musée Picasso and the Château de Versailles were closed Thursday 18 September due to an action against budget austerity
Uptown and downtown, re-imagined museums in New York prepare to reopen
This autumn, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the New Museum will reopen with ambitious new facilities that reflect renewed commitments to artists and the evolving civic role of contemporary art
Ten essential works of art to see at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
The art historian Matthew Holman makes his personal selection from a collection spanning 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art





























