Museums
Meet the man making millions for Western museums in China
Following his alliance with the British Museum, Yizan He has now secured global licensing rights to sell branded products in partnership with major art institutions worldwide
Making a fresh start: new museum openings
While the pandemic may have forced museums around the world into an involuntary temporary slumber, builders have been busy. Here are the most exciting new and expanded museums opening in 2022
Belgium plans to hand back colonial loot to DR Congo
New law will set up expert commission to sift through thousands of objects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa
US museums close or reduce capacity as Omicron variant causes surge in Covid-19 cases
The Metropolitan Museum will stay opened at reduced capacity, while others like the Yale University Art Gallery and the Baltimore Museum of Art close temporarily
Museums in London start to shut down as Omicron wave sweeps capital
Natural History Museum closes due to front-of-house staff shortages caused by Covid-19
From NFTs to LFTs: 2021's biggest art stories—and what they mean
The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year’s most important developments, from demands for colonial restitution to the return of culture wars
From artist residency to fully-fledged museum: Ghana's new space for contemporary African art prepares to open in March
Just a year after launching a studio programme in Accra, its ambitious young founder is turning it into a museum
National Museum of Afghanistan reopens—but staff are unpaid and Taliban are guarding the treasures
Recent images show militia taking photographs of artefacts on their mobile phones
Van Gogh gets a facelift: conservation of self-portrait to be revealed in London
The Kröller-Müller Museum painting will be unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition
Italy’s museums move to stop ticket touts’ post-Covid comeback
The Uffizi and Galleria dell’Accademia are among those finding ways to prevent re-sellers from inflating ticket prices
'Frightening' price tag and soap opera drama: Moscow’s GES-2 House of Culture opens opposite Kremlin
Power plant arts centre backed by Russian billionaire makes its long-awaited debut with a “dream exhibition” for Ragnar Kjartansson and a carnival in four acts
Top New York architect dropped midway through Hermitage Museum’s Moscow expansion project
Hani Rashid says he was ghosted by the Moscow city government
Fraud: the case of Inigo Philbrick
Plus, Warhol’s Catholicism and Moscow’s new museums
How China's museums are cosying up to commercial galleries for big-ticket exhibitions
Dealers are eagerly filling curatorial gaps in new museums with shows for their artists, but does the market hold too much sway?
Tate Britain director defends museum against accusations of ‘cancelling Hogarth’
Critics round on exhibition’s alternative interpretations of Hogarth paintings, describing them as "wokeish drivel"
As Missouri marks its bicentennial, new book explores a millennium of objects from the state
Countering settler narratives, Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition and catalogue examines the artistic contributions and experiences of marginalised groups
Uffizi gets down with the kids, lowering Renaissance masterpieces to children’s eye level
The new initiative also involves a team of museum guards tasked with responding to tiny tots' niggling queries
Blockbuster Vermeer exhibition forced to close as Germany faces fourth coronavirus wave
German health minister warns that by the end of the winter, everyone will be “vaccinated, recovered or dead”
Garage Museum expands in Gorky park with move into historic Hexagon pavilion
Sanaa architects masterplan turns 1920s site in Moscow into vast exhibition space and library
How a Milan museum won the battle to show the world’s most important private collection of Futurist art
Famous Mattioli collection loan will make Museo del Novecento “undoubtedly the most important centre for Futurist art” when it goes on display next spring
Abu Dhabi plans two new museums in addition to Guggenheim and Zayed
Announcement was made at yesterday's preview of Abu Dhabi Art 2021, where cultural leaders were keen to emphasise their commitment to the emirate following its strict lockdown
Review: Hong Kong's highly anticipated M+ museum opens—but can it withstand political pressure?
This world-class institution is a magnificent achievement, but it faces a profoundly different political environment today from its inception 25 years ago
'End BP sponsorship of British Museum': 90 heritage professionals sign open letter against oil giant
Archaeologists and museum professionals "urge" institution to cut ties with British Petroleum company
Skateboarders fight back against Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie ban
Museum says ban protects the building and sculptures—but has attracted criticism for ostracising younger generation
Experts raise alarm over fate of Georgia's leading art museum amid political upheaval
Concerns persist that a government-backed renovation of the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi could endanger its collection of 139,000 ancient and modern works
London’s National Gallery reveals slavery history in new research—including its founder’s ties to Caribbean
The data, published today, found 67 individuals connected to the slave trade including John Julius Angerstein who helped to establish the museum's collection
Humboldt Forum to remove medallion honouring far-right donor
Ehrhardt Bödecker’s family requested the removal after his “militaristic, anti-democratic and in some respects, radically right-wing and antisemitic” views became public
Removal of Welsh slave trader painting from National Museum Cardiff is ‘censoring history’, says BBC broadcaster
Newsreader Huw Edwards will now be invited to the museum to hear more about the reinterpretation process
Smithsonian Museum of African Art removes Benin bronzes from display and plans to repatriate them
“We cannot build for the future without making our best effort at healing the wounds of the past,” the museum’s director says
Trial begins for Spanish museum director accused of spending €3.4m on forged works
Consuelo Císcar, the former director of the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, is said to have bought works attributed to Gerardo Rueda—but that were painted by his son