Museums
London museums close galleries as temperatures reach record high
Staff union claims it pressured the V&A and British Museum to take special measures
South India's first private art museum to open in December
The Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru hopes to “push the needle” in a country where state funding for culture is being cut
The delights of Sussex: the art and museums to visit in the English county
The organisation Sussex Modern brings together the many and varied cultural delights of the area
Cold War era returns as cultural ties are severed between Russia and US
Cultural understanding “cancelled” as Russia withdraws from 1998 memorandum and museums wind down “all direct communications and collaborative work”
Italian government plans to halt digital sales of masterpieces from its major museums
Move follows €240,000 sale of NFT of Michelangelo work, with Uffizi taking a share of the profits
In Bosnia, museum leaders debate how cultural institutions can unify war-torn nations
The new conference will use Sarajevo's museums as case studies for how post-conflict societies can invest in culture to keep the peace
Acquisitions round-up: 900 Japanese cloisonné enamels—including rare commissions for the imperial family—head to Massachusetts museum
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Constable painting rehung at National Gallery after protestors glue themselves to frame
The campaign group, Just Stop Oil, has targeted famous works at Kelvingrove, Courtauld and Manchester Art Gallery
'As visitors return, the UK’s museums have a new sense of purpose'
The five finalists for Museum of the Year 2022 are changing the world around them, says Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director and jury chair for the £100,000 prize
Tŷ Pawb: an eclectic Welsh centre that wants to be a home for all—including a sweet shop and a dog grooming parlour
Built as a multi-storey car park, this redeveloped Wrexham centre has found its focus on textiles, artists and local groups and offers children’s play and workshops
People's History Museum: a place where protests are remembered—and where they begin
This Manchester museum, which has the world’s largest collection of protest banners, is empowering locals
The Story Museum: a gateway to magical worlds for young readers—hidden in an old post office
From digital poohsticks to Mr Tumnus’s snowy footprints, this Oxford space is a place of great adventures
Museum of Making: a hands-on community hub that honours—and revives—Derby's Industrialist past
At this former mill you can learn about manufacturing history and make something new somewhere old
Horniman Museum and Gardens: asking difficult questions about colonialism, race and environmental issues
The south London institution has been examining its complicated history, listening and reaching out to diverse communities
'Tate capitulated to my legal demand': donor of disputed Francis Bacon archive responds to museum's return of collection
Barry Joule disputes gallery’s claim that trove of sketches and documents, which he donated, was "unsuitable for retention"
New venues open in Hong Kong and Taiwan amid tense relations with China
The directors of the Hong Kong Palace Museum and Taipei Performing Arts Center both state that they are free of censorship
Major collection of works by late Modernist painter and feminist activist Inji Efflatoun finds new home in Cairo
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
Activists glue themselves to painting in Glasgow museum to protest art world's fossil fuel use
Two demonstrators are in police custody after they attached themselves to a 19th-century landscape by Horatio McCulloch at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery
Tate announces 2023 programme including exhibition pairing Hilma af Klint with Piet Mondrian
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
People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, but disabled artists remain underrepresented in European museums. Is that about to change?
Projects on disability still remain peripheral in institutional programming—and the pandemic threatens what progress has been made
‘No one can interfere with our offensive’: Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky compares Russian export of culture to country’s ‘operation’ in Ukraine
St. Petersburg museum also announces “a one-year moratorium on exhibitions in Europe and the US”
Francis Bacon: why Tate returned a 1,000-piece archive
Plus, US photographer of queer women, Alice Austen; and Michel Majerus at Art Basel
Developers circle as unique industrial building in English Unesco World Heritage site faces closure
Strutt’s North Mill Museum in Derbyshire is set to close following the withdrawal of local authority funding
Aztec goddess statue marks opening of ‘the Cheech’ museum of Chicano art
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
Moving Michelangelo and hauling Holbein: renovation headache for London's National Gallery
A bicentenary renovation project makes the London museum play a tricky game of musical chairs with its collection
US museums must confront ‘inherited colonial narratives’, says Thomas Campbell, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Two years after the death of George Floyd, conversations about racism are morphing into lasting policy change
Acquisitions round-up: Gordon Parks photographs head to the 'mecca of Black education' Howard University in Washington, DC
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
William Beckford’s tower is finally complete, 200 years after the eccentric English architect started construction
The Bath museum, the only surviving example of the reclusive millionaire's architectural achievements, is also showing works from his original art collection