Museums
Stephanie Rosenthal appointed project director for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi museum
Current director of Gropius Bau will oversee opening of the long-awaited institution in the United Arab Emirates
Cambodia urges UK museums to investigate and return looted treasures allegedly handled by dealer Douglas Latchford
British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum now under scrutiny of Cambodian government
Time is up on relaxed rules for US museums wanting to sell their works—did this brief shift have any lasting impact?
As stringent restrictions on art sales return after a pandemic reprieve, American institutions seem more polarised than ever
From migration to Minecraft: shortlist for UK's Art Fund Museum of the Year 2022 is announced
Institutions in the running include Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham and Horniman Museum and Gardens in London
Art Fund to help curators from UK's regional museums to visit London Gallery Weekend
Eighteen institutions from Aberdeen to St Ives have been granted funds to help with travel and accommodation
Kyiv museum curators bravely criticise war by telling stories of its collection's historic objects
Online articles by staff at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine show how items resonate with the war-torn country
London's National Gallery drops disgraced Sackler family name from its walls—will the V&A follow suit?
Victoria and Albert Museum is last major UK institution to retain the donors' name on its building, despite settlement agreement allowing its removal
America's racial reckoning: inside the controversial Guston show
Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi
Not one but two LGBTQ cultural spaces to open in London this spring
Queer Britain museum and Queercircle art space, both opening as the UK marks 50 years of Gay Pride marches, will offer free-entry exhibitions and public workshops
From cosy to creepy: new displays at Bletchley Park muddle Britain's honourable Nazi-fighting history with a contested present
The museum—set inside a Buckinghamshire country house—has opened its largest ever gallery, called the Intelligence Factory, this week
Venice museums send supplies to help save Ukraine’s art
As part of the Save Ukraine Art network, essential materials to protect works from bombs, fire and damp are heading to Lviv National Art Gallery
Israel Museum in Jerusalem sued by Jewish heirs of Holocaust victim over valuable manuscript
The case of the Birds' Head Haggadah is the first time a museum in Israel has faced a restitution lawsuit for an object allegedly lost in the Holocaust
Daskalopoulos’s great giveaway: Greek collector donates 350 works to Tate, Guggenheim, MCA Chicago and EMST in Athens
‘Everybody is happy and nobody is jealous,” the entrepreneur says
Hot on the heels of Tate commission, Hew Locke chosen to transform Met museum façade
Guyanese-British artist will create four sculptures that draw on the New York museum's collection
China's Russia problem: will more international exhibitions be cancelled due to the countries' close ties?
Suspension of loans from state-run Musée Matisse le Cateau-Cambrésis for Beijing exhibition shocks Chinese art world
Finland seizes €42m of art en route back to Russia
The works had been on show in museums in Italy and Japan
Hermitage branch in Amsterdam rebrands after cutting ties with Russia
The venue has reopened with an exhibition series focusing on Dutch masterpieces, starting with Vermeer’s Milkmaid
Louvre suspends sale of Chardin's record-breaking strawberries
The French museum is now seeking funds to buy the still-life painting, which was sold last week by Artcurial to a US dealer for €24.3m
Bouncing back: the US museums that have regained the visitors lost to Covid closures
While the pandemic has devastated the visitor numbers of many big-name museums, some medium-sized institutions are already thriving
Visitor Figures 2021: the 100 most popular art museums in the world—but is Covid still taking its toll?
While attendance figures still have some way to go to reach pre-pandemic levels, fewer days of lockdown-related closures coupled with vaccine rollout programmes spelled good news for institutions around the world
Tehran museum director fired after artist plunges into oil pool during acrobatic performance blunder
Yaser Khaseb fell into a 1977 installation by the Japanese artist Noriyuki Haraguchi in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
The British Museum says it needs another £1bn to refurbish itself—first it must prove it deserves it
It's time to drag the institution out of its entrenched past and into the 21st century
German museums offer curator jobs to Ukrainian and Russian refugees
Berlin-based Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation is supporting roles for a one-year period
In a world of digital innovation, what if art becomes… boring?
A virtual reality visit to the Sistine Chapel made me realise that museums are going to have to up their game in order to maintain visitors' interest
Milan’s Museo del Novecento could lose 600 works in legal battle with heir
Mario Bertolini’s vast collection of Modern art, amassed over his lifetime and donated to the museum in 2014, is at the centre of a claim seeking to invalidate the acquisition
UK sanctions Russian oligarch behind major Fabergé egg loan to V&A exhibition
Ukrainian-born mining billionaire Viktor Vekselberg lent the first Imperial Easter egg to the London museum through his foundation
Billionaire collector Nicolas Berggruen snaps up his second Venetian palace
Scheduled to open in 2024, Palazzo Diedo will house an exhibition and art residency space
Museum building heavily damaged in Ukraine's battle-ravaged city of Chernihiv
Director has been posting emotional updates on Facebook as Russian forces shell area
With art therapy on the rise, France's museums are beginning to take mental health seriously
Palais de Tokyo is building a “care centre” for art and wellbeing programmes, while new workshops launch at Louvre-Lens
British museums including Tate and V&A not part of UK government's new Saudi culture deal
The partnership, signed in February, will focus on collaborations in the film, museum and heritage sectors between the two nations