Museums
Revealed: the hidden history of espionage in Britain’s heritage sites
New film uncovers how locations including Beaulieu, today home to the National Motor Museum, played a key role in intelligence training during the Second World War
Long-awaited Istanbul Modern museum nears completion
Renzo Piano-designed institution may coincide with this year's Istanbul Biennial
Berlin's controversial Humboldt Forum is finally complete—but 'the work inside begins now', German Culture Minister says
Twenty years since its conception and at a cost of around €680m, the new German museum must now follow through on its restitution promises
Do good monarchs make bad art collectors? Inside the British Royal Collection
Plus, how UK museums can respond to the energy crisis, and a haunting Henry Fuseli painting
UK museums to temporarily close out of respect for Elizabeth II's funeral
Tate Modern and Southbank Centre will be open overnight to provide toilet facilities to those queueing to see the Queen's coffin
Sotheby's to sell $70m of art stored at MoMA to benefit New York museum's digital initiatives
Francis Bacon triptych and Renoir still life among works from the collection of CBS founder William S. Paley that have been "under the museum's stewardship" since his death
Glenn Brown—Gagosian-backed appropriator of Old Masters—to open London museum dedicated to his art
Hoping to increase his visibility, Brown will self-fund a Marylebone space that will combine his work with those of historic artists in his private collection
Pressure on British Museum to ditch BP mounts following UK's record summer heatwave
Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point
Van Gogh exhibitions in 2023: we reveal the hot tickets coming up worldwide
Highlight shows in Chicago, Paris and Amsterdam—plus a 50th birthday celebration for the Van Gogh Museum
With royal approval: UK's arts organisation chiefs on how they have benefitted from the Queen’s patronage
Support from the Queen has been crucial to the functioning of a number of Britain's arts institutions
Ukraine gets emergency Red List for art as evidence mounts of 'trading networks flowing West'
The International Council of Museums has worked with Interpol to create the list, with border patrols on "high alert" to seize art stolen from Ukrainian museums—but is it too late?
Uffizi loan of self-portraits to the Bund One Art Museum opens ten-exhibition series in Shanghai
Show of works by 48 artists, from Bernini to Chagall, is first in a five-year programme worth €6m to the Florence museum
In surprise move, contemporary art specialist Christine Macel takes the reins at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
Previously chief curator at Centre Pompidou since 2000, she also organised the French Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale
How the Speed Art Museum learned to listen in the midst of a community tragedy
The museum built deep community engagement in real time following the killing of Breonna Taylor in 2020
Brazil turns 200—and its National Museum rises from the ashes
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
New exhibition looks at how the West created the fantasy of Ancient Egypt
Show at Norwich's Sainsbury Centre includes work by contemporary artists to aid a postcolonial interpretation of Egypt's heritage
After a devastating fire in 2018, the National Museum of Brazil unveils the first stage of its restoration project
As the first stage of the museum’s restoration project is unveiled, coinciding with the Brazilian bicentennial of independence, its director calls for more government investment
Top tips for the culture secretary, as the UK is about to get a new prime minister (and yes, you will have to return the Parthenon Marbles)
Here are three big challenges they will face—and what to do about them
Revamped Museum of Islamic Art in Doha to reopen with more than 1,000 new objects
After 18-month closure, Qatar gallery to relaunch on 5 October in time for Fifa World Cup
Fair or not, Tate's discrimination row has damaged its reputation among the very artists it needs to attract
The institution denies claims that it refused to allow the increasingly prominent Black performance artist Jade Montserrat to participate in a project for Tate Exchange
The greatest portrait by one of the finest British artists: London's National Portrait Gallery aims to raise £50m to buy Reynolds's Omai
If the purchase is successful it will be one of the most expensive works ever bought by a UK museum
Acquisitions round-up: Tate gets Indigenous Australian art and Ohio's Toledo Museum swaps Impressionist paintings for a Kerry James Marshall
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Exclusive: German museums latest to be implicated in far-reaching criminal investigation into antiquities trafficking
Case has so far seen Middle Eastern works seized from New York's Met and the indictment of a former Louvre director
Icom condemns Russia's 'deliberate destruction' of Ukrainian heritage and plans stricter code of ethics
The International Council of Museums says revised protocol will allow it to more readily “address conflicts”—and could lead to the expulsion of Russia from the organisation
Aboriginal art to take centre stage at $225m expansion of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Sydney Modern Project—due to open in December—is the Australian city’s largest cultural development since the creation of its opera house
What is a museum? Icom finally decides on a new definition
The 50-year-old statement has been overhauled at the International Council of Museums conference in Prague today
Once the US’s largest slave port, Charleston will open African American museum next year
Opening on 21 January 2023, the new International African American Museum will include ways for Black Americans to research their ancestry
Leading museum directors to debate whether institutions can remain objective in a politically volatile world
At the ICOM conference in Prague, leaders will be told traditional planning could be a liability when addressing modern human rights issues