Barry Joule disputes gallery’s claim that trove of sketches and documents, which he donated, was "unsuitable for retention"

The directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Taipei Performing Arts Center both state that they are free of censorship

Museum of Modern Egyptian Art will now house 60 works that the pioneering artist bequeathed to the government—some of which she made while imprisoned

Two demonstrators are in police custody after they attached themselves to a 19th-century landscape by Horatio McCulloch at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery

Solo shows dedicated to Isaac Julien and Sarah Lucas, a survey of contemporary African photography and the controversial "Philip Guston Now" are also on the slate

Projects on disability still remain peripheral in institutional programming—and the pandemic threatens what progress has been made

St. Petersburg museum also announces “a one-year moratorium on exhibitions in Europe and the US”

Plus, US photographer of queer women, Alice Austen; and Michel Majerus at Art Basel

Strutt’s North Mill Museum in Derbyshire is set to close following the withdrawal of local authority funding

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, California will house the collection of its patron, the actor and long-time champion of Chicano art

A bicentenary renovation project makes the London museum play a tricky game of musical chairs with its collection

Two years after the death of George Floyd, conversations about racism are morphing into lasting policy change

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The Bath museum, the only surviving example of the reclusive millionaire's architectural achievements, is also showing works from his original art collection

"My Dear Alice" explores, through hundreds of letters written to the unheralded artist, the romantic correspondences of Victorian-era women

State meddling is “annihilating capacity of institutions”, says commissioner of Museum Watch Governance Management Project

Plus, Chris Levine's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II; and a rise in political interference in museum leadership

Aleksandr Shkolnik was added to list of sanctioned individuals by the UK and Australia, and is the first Russian museum director to be targeted

Five years ago President Macron took the museum world by surprise when he announced a then-revolutionary restitution plan. Now the country’s politicians are at odds about how to implement it

"There are people who are destroying the planet, that's why I did it," the vandal said

From Sex Pistols album covers to a tower moat full of flowers, here are the best exhibitions, installations and events to check out over the long bank holiday

The museum will be built on the site of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, which focuses on contemporary art

The proposed museum replacing the current building has been called a “vanity project”

Exeter museum has held various objects belonging to the 19th-century Blackfoot leader Chief Crowfoot since 1878

A $118m project to expand the Museum of Chinese in America in New York kicks off amid protests centring on plans for a massive new “skyscraper” jail

London museum signs memorandum of understanding with Bayeux city officials to develop curatorial and scientific exchange

Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman

The head of artist copyright society Dacs will replace Iwona Blazwick, who served as head of the East London institution for 20 years

Bët-bi, planned for 2025, will be designed by architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara