Museums
British Museum should review its position on the Parthenon Marbles, Unesco body says
Greece's culture minister says the issue is of intergovernmental nature rather than a matter for the British Museum
Climate scientist stands down as adviser to London's Science Museum over fossil fuel sponsorship
Chris Rapley, a professor of climate science at University College London, disagrees with the museum's "ongoing willingness to accept oil and gas company sponsorship"
Flash flooding overwhelms Ljubljana’s cultural institutions
In the worst flood in Slovenia in nearly two centuries, the capital's most important theatre and Modern art museum have been damaged
Museum of Star Wars creator George Lucas goes on buying spree with international, if not intergalactic, focus
Gearing up for 2023 opening, Lucas Museum adds works by Frida Kahlo, Robert Colescott and Artemisia Gentileschi to filmmaker's Norman Rockwell trove
All glitz and glamour? Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum
New Mass MoCA director pledges to ‘honour the past and build from there’
Kristy Edmunds replaces Joseph C. Thompson after lengthy period of layoffs and new staff union over pandemic
Prado extension designed by Norman Foster finally gets the green light
First proposed in 1995, the project has faced multiple delays
London’s Museum of Childhood to be renamed the Young V&A following £13m renovation
East End institution will no longer cater to adults “revelling in nostalgia” and rather be focussed on those aged up to 14 years old
Second presenter from right-wing GB News channel appointed trustee of a UK museum
Former Brexit Party candidate Inaya Folarin Iman joins board of the National Portrait Gallery in London
Leonardo's unidentified assistant—who painted the Prado's Mona Lisa—also copied Saint Anne and the Salvator Mundi, new research suggests
Exhibition on Madrid museum’s copy of the Mona Lisa sheds new light on the original
Geneva museum director fights attempt to oust him
Around 100 scholars have signed a petition to the city’s mayor arguing that Marc-Olivier Wahler is not the right person to run the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
British Museum to sell NFTs of 200 Hokusai works—including The Great Wave
The institution has partnered with French start-up LaCollection to auction the non-fungible tokens, coinciding with its exhibition of the Japanese artist's work
Swiss landscape painting—once destined for Hitler’s Führermuseum—acquired by London’s National Gallery
Alexandre Calame’s Chalets at Rigi was sold in 1996 at an auction of unclaimed works with proceeds going to benefit victims of the Holocaust
National Gallery of Australia commissions its most expensive ever piece of art
Lindy Lee's A$14m sculpture will be one of the country's first environmentally sustainable public works
Conservative party donor John Booth appointed chair of London's National Gallery
Philanthropist succeeds Tony Hall, who stepped down following row over Princess Diana interview
Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong sets new opening date for long-delayed Abu Dhabi museum
New deputy director Naomi Beckwith says "we can re-centre where the stories of art are told"
Zurich takes ‘quantum leap’ with Chipperfield-designed Kunsthaus extension
Opening on 9 October, the major building project turns the Kunsthaus into Switzerland’s largest art museum
CCA Derry~Londonderry: a lifeline for artists in isolation on both sides of Ireland's border
The Centre for Contemporary Art filled the lockdown gap with online conversations and social media takeovers
Experience Barnsley: a crowdsourced museum in Yorkshire shows how culture can help in the pandemic recovery
The gallery located in the town hall is a true “museum of and for the people”
Firstsite: bouncing back from past controversies to become a vital community hub
The Colchester art gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary this year
Timespan: a remote museum in the Scottish Highlands that support its vulnerable village through Covid
The cultural centre has international ambitions if it wins the £100,000 prize
Against all the odds, the UK’s museums are beacons of inspiration
Museum of the Year 2021 celebrates the sector’s triumphs in the face of adversity, says Jenny Waldman, Art Fund director and jury chair for the £100,000 prize
'Putin's been my person since the 90s': ahead of Russia's parliamentary elections, Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky talks politics
The outspoken museum chief is leading the St Petersburg ticket of United Russia, the pro-Putin ruling party, in national parliamentary elections this weekend
Must-see institutional shows during Art Basel
From unseen drawings from Kara Walker's personal archives to a fresh take on Camille Pissarro as the leader of the Impressionists
'Musée d’Orsay can no longer be a tourist factory': Christophe Leribault named new director of Paris museum
Leribault will oversee a major redevelopment of the Musée d’Orsay over the next decade
Looted African works that France has promised to return to Benin will be shown in Paris museum for one last time
The exhibition Benin: the Restitution of 26 Works from the Royal Treasures of Abomey at Musée du quai Branly–Jacques Chirac will be on view for five days in October
Klaus Biesenbach named director of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie
Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary museum is to be led by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
Brussels doctors prescribe museum visits to treat Covid-19 stress
Research “has proven that art can be beneficial for health, both mental and physical,” the city’s head of culture tells a Belgian newspaper
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art sets sights on Chengdu and a side hustle in a Beijing shopping mall
Beijing museum unveils plans for fourth location in "one of the most exciting cities in China" and new co-branded U2 exhibition space