Museums
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
After a lacklustre four years, MoMA PS1 in New York gets its groove back with trio of eye-opening shows
No oil, no gas—no stopping: Climate activists in Italy glue themselves to ancient Vatican Museums sculpture
The group is funded by the Los Angeles-based Climate Emergency Fund
One of China’s oldest private art museums to close as Covid lockdowns lead to economic slump
The Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou will shut its exhibition space on 9 October
How partition divided a centuries-old manuscript between India and Pakistan—and continues to plague the region's heritage
Research on the Chandayan of Mulla Da’ud has suffered ever since 24 folios narrating the love story were split up across the border in 1947
Delhi's delayed Partition Museum set to open this winter
It will be India's second institution dedicated to the mass displacement of 1947
Horniman Museum in London hands over Benin bronzes to Nigeria
Major restitution development coincides with publication of new Arts Council England guidelines
Uffizi Gallery announces €50m project to return Boboli Gardens to its former Medici-era glory
Planned for completion in 2030, the revamp will include redeveloping the neoclassical Pagliere building for temporary exhibitions and storage
Nancy Pelosi's controversial trip to Taiwan puts museum in the spotlight
US Speaker of the House visits National Human Rights Museum amidst tense relations between Taiwan and China
Controversial slave trader painting at National Museum Cardiff—removed in wake of Black Lives Matter—is rehung
The work, depicting the Lieutenant-General Thomas Picton, is now on display as part of an exhibition reframing his legacy
British Museum proposes new ‘Parthenon partnership’ with Greece in bid to end deadlock over Marbles
Officials will loan the ancient sculptures only if they are returned to London
Oxford and Cambridge universities approve returning 213 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria
Charity Commission could veto the decision to repatriate objects from Ashmolean Museum and Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Museum Association demands that UK government invest in institutions as cost of living and inflation soar
Influential museum organisation calls for a new pay settlement, warning that workers face pay decreases "at the fastest rate for decades"
Sex and the Disparity: 20 years on, are art girls really rising?
Thirty-five years ago the Guerrilla Girls took to the streets to protest gender inequality—now memes are helping to remind us that there is much work still to do
Climate activists glue themselves to Botticelli masterpiece in Italy
Officials at the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence say that the 15th-century painting was not damaged thanks to protective glass cover