Former minister Rachida Dati calls on Emmanuel Macron to authorise the change

The programme includes webinars examining dealers and collectors

Visitor numbers will take years to recover with a drastic impact on income, the London institution reports

Tate now faces the dilemma of what to do with a room decorated by a major early 20th-century artist

Tech entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset wants to shake up long-standing museum models through the ambitious award

Alarmed post-colonial researchers have raised concerns over plans to open Museo Italo Africano "Ilaria Alpi" in late 2021

The institution has launched a voluntary redundancy scheme but could ‘move to compulsory redundancy in 2021’

After drastic financial losses due to Covid-19, the Brazilian museum says it will hold a smaller number of shows for longer periods of time and boost its digital offerings

The art historian began her career at the museum in 1945 under Stalin

The child's family says he is now also able to speak in full words, but retains significant impairment to his memory

In an op-ed published this weekend, Szilard Demeter called the billionaire financier 'the liberal Führer'

The budget for 2021 allocates funding to preserve Berlin museum buildings, renovate the Bayreuth Festival theatre, boost provenance research and grant free admission to the Jewish Museum Berlin

Though African institutions want looted artefacts to return home, they are more preoccupied with promoting living artists and treasures

We speak to museum experts András Szántó and Sonia Lawson. Plus, Dan Hicks on the legacy of colonial looting and National Gallery curator Christopher Riopelle on the Polish painter Jan Matejko

Shops remain open in many countries even as museums are plunged once more into Covid-19 deep-freeze

International museum leaders are confronting manifold challenges in the wake of Covid-19 and innovating in six principal ways, writes András Szántó

Turbulent year draws to a close with sector wracked by pandemic lockdowns and Black Lives Matter challenges

Online sale seeks to support a new space for art education and outreach that will open in the autumn of 2021

The museum worked with around 60 Aboriginal language groups across the vast state to bring their perspectives into every gallery

Event marking anniversaries of the Emirati museum and New York University Abu Dhabi looked at museum collections, buildings and people, and the impact of coronavirus

Move reflects how museums could cash in on digital initiatives

After months without income due to coronavirus closures, new survey shows that museums are operating with just 25% of previous visitor numbers

Cultural workers voice frustration at mixed closure orders, as theatres, concert halls and restaurants are allowed to stay open

Many UK institutions are hoping members will continue to support them despite limited benefits and recurring closures

Delayed by just three weeks amid the pandemic, new Kinder Building will dramatically increase space for Modern and contemporary art

Serpentine Galleries, Tate and historian David Olusoga are on the shortlist for £3m research and development funding

The key figure in the British Black Arts movement of the 1980s has adorned the London museum’s façade with a colourful work exploring her own background

Ghanaian-British architect is working with the British Museum and Nigerian organisations to show “the most comprehensive display in the world of Benin Bronzes”

Museum chief is asymptomatic and says he will continue working in quarantine

The museums should make urgent use of the delay already caused by the pandemic rather than lurch towards lengthy postponement