Museums
Smithsonian provost overseeing Cooper Hewitt after ouster of director
Caroline Baumann was reportedly forced to resign from the New York museum after concerns raised about her 2018 wedding
Aspen Art Museum closes Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room due to building code violation
The installation, which opened on 20 December, is closing 11 weeks early
Mr Brainwash to open Los Angeles museum
The vacant Paley Center in Beverly Hills will be transformed into a space for both his own and other artists’ work
LA's grassroots spaces keep growing
With more alternative art galleries than ever, many are slowing down on exhibitions and stepping up on programming
Not here to stay: what makes private museums suddenly close?
From mounting bills and funding problems to art-washing and embezzlement, collections are disappearing from public view at a rate of knots
MoMA acquires historic Gordon Parks series The Atmosphere of Crime
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
Climate activists take over British Museum in all-night protest against BP sponsorship
Organisers of the three-day action, the group BP or not BP?, called it the "largest protest in the history of the museum"
Teenager who threw boy from Tate Modern viewing platform told carers about his plan to kill
Jonty Bravery said he wanted to “push somebody off” more than a year ago
Uffizi wins legal battle against 'cybersquatter' owner of Uffizi.com domain name
The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices
Coronavirus: Australia stops two Chinese artists from entering country as more of China's art organisations halt programming
Beijing's Gallery Weekend and UCCA Centre for Contemporary Art have been forced to cancel or delay their events
Tadao Ando-designed He Art Museum postponed because of coronavirus
The X Museum in Beijing has also delayed its opening show
'Don’t panic': Glasgow City Council calms fears over proposal to close city's Modern art museum
Popular gallery was on the chopping block in latest budget option review
Wooing Dutch visitors and an impending birthday: the challenges facing Van Gogh Museum's new director
Emilie Gordenker, from the Mauritshuis, will move from the Golden Age to the birth of Modernism when she takes up her role next week
Van Gogh Museum's Emilie Gordenker ruled out UK jobs because of Brexit
The incoming director was headhunted for museum posts in Europe and the US but steered clear of the UK "for obvious reasons"
Was Leonardo's Salvator Mundi for sale when it went on show at the National Gallery?
Public collections usually avoid showing works that are on the market, but expert claims the $450m picture was made available to museums and collectors before the 2011 exhibition
Opening of Oslo's new Munch Museum delayed until autumn
Tracey Emin says she is now “working out the logistics” for the inaugural exhibition which pairs her work with that of Munch
Coronavirus crisis: Hong Kong follows China in shutting museums
Special administrative region has also limited travel to the mainland to lower transmission risk
Instead of permanent space, Smithsonian will co-curate gallery at V&A East for two years
The Washington institution also announces joint effort with London communities to train young adults
How serious are the dangers of market sponsorship of museum exhibitions?
Involvement from galleries and auction houses is on the rise as public institutions face dwindling government funds and increased scrutiny over toxic philanthropy
Hitler in Hell: German Historical Museum acquires George Grosz painting
Painted while Grosz was living in exile, the work has remained in the family since 1944
Two Iran exhibitions in Germany put on ice amid political tensions
Insurers refused to cover the transport of loans, including salt-mine mummies and Greek and Roman antiquities
Tate privacy battle over viewing platform 'snooping' goes back to court
Claimant says she feels “completely exposed” in her apartment overlooked by the museum
Activist artists hack poll in New Museum’s Hans Haacke retrospective
Survey results are changed out of concern that Haacke’s work is being “co-opted”
Tokyo’s treasure house of Impressionist painting reopens as Artizon Museum
Former Bridgestone Museum of Art will have new focus on creativity through the ages after a three-year renovation
Letter to the editor | Necessity, not secrecy, will close NPG’s doors
Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, responds to criticism about the museum's three-year closure
Arts Council England asks for help in returning looted artefacts held in UK museums
Tender opened for guidance around repatriation questions for items including those acquired from former colonies
Will new €50m Albertina Modern museum revolutionise Vienna’s contemporary art scene?
Satellite venue of historic Albertina is to focus on Austrian and international art made after 1945
Nazi loot expert joins Louvre to investigate its wartime acquisitions
Hire of French art historian Emmanuelle Polack suggests a more proactive stance on Nazi-era provenance research at Paris museum
Why Africa’s future museums should forget Western models
The time is ripe for artists and curators to reconfigure what can actually be done within the walls of a museum
Five years after Charlie Hebdo attack, France plans centre dedicated to satirical cartoons
In honour of the victims and to promote the medium, the French culture ministry will create "a meeting, training and exhibition place"