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

Guggenheim exhibition explores the theme of nonurban areas in its first show that has nothing to do with art or architecture

The free-entry MassArt Art Museum, formerly known as the Bakalar & Paine Galleries, opens this weekend

Caroline Baumann was reportedly forced to resign from the New York museum after concerns raised about her 2018 wedding

The installation, which opened on 20 December, is closing 11 weeks early

The vacant Paley Center in Beverly Hills will be transformed into a space for both his own and other artists’ work

With more alternative art galleries than ever, many are slowing down on exhibitions and stepping up on programming

From mounting bills and funding problems to art-washing and embezzlement, collections are disappearing from public view at a rate of knots

The photographs will go on view in the New York museum's permanent collection galleries in May, along with a selection of works by other artists and a clip from the classic 1971 film Shaft

Organisers of the three-day action, the group BP or not BP?, called it the "largest protest in the history of the museum"

Jonty Bravery said he wanted to “push somebody off” more than a year ago

The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices

Beijing's Gallery Weekend and UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art have been forced to cancel or delay their events

The X Museum in Beijing has also delayed its opening show