Museums
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
New podcast reveals lives of queer 19th-century women through letters of photographer Alice Austen
"My Dear Alice" explores, through hundreds of letters written to the unheralded artist, the romantic correspondences of Victorian-era women
Museums take action after report finds 'astonishing, nearly absurd' levels of government interference
State meddling is “annihilating capacity of institutions”, says commissioner of Museum Watch Governance Management Project
New shows reveal how Picasso was inspired by the Old Masters
Plus, Chris Levine's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II; and a rise in political interference in museum leadership
Director of Moscow’s Second World War museum says he is ‘proud’ to be sanctioned over war in Ukraine
Aleksandr Shkolnik was added to list of sanctioned individuals by the UK and Australia, and is the first Russian museum director to be targeted
What has happened to France’s grand plans to return Africa's heritage?
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
Mona Lisa smeared with cake by man ‘dressed as old lady in wheelchair’
"There are people who are destroying the planet, that's why I did it," the vandal said
Eleven royally arty things to do in the UK over Queen Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee weekend
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
Chinese Museum in Vancouver aims to rewrite Canada’s racist history
The museum will be built on the site of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, which focuses on contemporary art
Billion dollar upgrade of Canada's Royal British Columbia Museum met with criticism
The proposed museum replacing the current building has been called a “vanity project”
Britain's Royal Albert Memorial Museum returns artefacts to Siksika First Nation
Exeter museum has held various objects belonging to the 19th-century Blackfoot leader Chief Crowfoot since 1878
Proposed museum expansion spells trouble in Manhattan’s Chinatown
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
Digitising the Bayeux Tapestry: Victoria and Albert Museum will work with French city to research famous Medieval work
London museum signs memorandum of understanding with Bayeux city officials to develop curatorial and scientific exchange
Historic English villa—built by royal mistress to escape her 'stinker' of a husband—reopens after restoration
Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman
Gilane Tawadros appointed director of the Whitechapel Gallery in London
The head of artist copyright society Dacs will replace Iwona Blazwick, who served as head of the East London institution for 20 years
In new Senegal museum, Albers Foundation will exhibit repatriated African objects and expand legacy of Bauhaus
Bët-bi, planned for 2025, will be designed by architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara
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