Shanghai's Power Station of Art and Shanghai Museum welcomed visitors today after China's tough measures helped curb the spread of the disease

We speak to Gabriele Finaldi about the challenges of opening a show at the time of coronavirus and to its curator about this extraordinary series of paintings. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

London museum says staff member does not work in a front-of-house role and all affected areas have been deep cleaned

There are currently more than 2,770 coronavirus cases reported in Spain with 64 deaths

Grütters sees "massive burden" for arts sector as theatres and concert halls close, ticket sales dwindle

Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center is reopening with an inaugural exhibition on illumination

Albertina delays planned opening of new Vienna museum of modern art

Decision by London's British Museum and Science Museum to continue accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies risks alienating the public they serve

Decision comes amidst pressure from activist groups for UK museums to end their oil sponsorship deals

Two are suspected of tampering with the alarm system; two more, on duty during the theft, are accused of an inadequate response

An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April

Free exhibition at the London museum in October will show around 150 works that have been collected since the early 1990s

Institutions like the National Gallery of Art and the Guggenheim remain open but alert to potential for closing as confirmed cases of Covid-19 rise

Director Nicholas Cullinan and architect Jamie Fobert reveal how the gallery’s controversial three-year closure will transform its 600-year collection of portraits

Faults including a lack of transparency and a capricious programme have been cited following a change in management at the private museum

As museums remain on lockdown in China, we reveal the full extent of the crisis for both state and private institutions and their innovative short-term solutions

The Paris museum held talks with union officials yesterday

Private consortium offered $80m to turn former industrial area into Australia’s answer to Naoshima art island in Japan

Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure “visitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other”

British illustrator’s only known paintings—on front and back of the same canvas—will be displayed for the first time in new exhibition

Foundation president cites concern over a dramatic museum redesign that could force works into storage

The committee had advised against moving Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X; the museum loaned it to Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale regardless

Hermitage officials dismayed after city council refuses planning permission for new venue, citing multiple concerns

Russia has banned Chinese citizens from entering the country, slashing attendance at cultural institutions in Moscow and St Petersburg

Controversial curator Piotr Bernatowicz has cancelled several 2020 exhibitions and cut funding from progressive art journal at Ujazdowski Castle CCA

Arkansas private museum’s cross-disciplinary new venue shines a spotlight on contemporary American art, from performance to cooking

Museum will reopen in 2022 with new focus on empowering children’s creativity

Public and private institutions in Venice, Milan and Turin will stay closed for at least a week as more than 200 cases of Covid-2019 are confirmed

Our beleaguered art colleagues need our help and we must not turn our backs on Chinese art institutions, says Philip Dodd, head of Made in China

The automotive and green-power company is also sponsoring an exhibition that explores the intersection of art and technology