Museums
Uffizi scientific committee resigns in dispute over Raphael loan
The committee had advised against moving Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X; the museum loaned it to Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale regardless
Barcelona rejects plans for outpost of Russia’s State Hermitage Museum
Hermitage officials dismayed after city council refuses planning permission for new venue, citing multiple concerns
Coronavirus: Russian museums hit as Chinese tourists stay away
Russia has banned Chinese citizens from entering the country, slashing attendance at cultural institutions in Moscow and St Petersburg
Right-wing director begins overhaul of Warsaw contemporary art centre
Controversial curator Piotr Bernatowicz has cancelled several 2020 exhibitions and cut funding from progressive art journal at Ujazdowski Castle CCA
Crystal Bridges launches satellite for living artists
Arkansas private museum’s cross-disciplinary new venue shines a spotlight on contemporary American art, from performance to cooking
Superman, Beatrix Potter and Virgil Abloh: London’s V&A reveals plans for revamped Museum of Childhood
Museum will reopen in 2022 with new focus on empowering children’s creativity
Mass museum shutdown in northern Italy—including Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Fondazione Prada—as coronavirus spreads
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
Where is the West? Art world should be supporting China during coronavirus crisis
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
Nevada Museum of Art receives $1.25m from Tesla to boost its arts education programme
The automotive and green-power company is also sponsoring an exhibition that explores the intersection of art and technology
'Cities are not that great': Rem Koolhaas on the appeal of the countryside
Guggenheim exhibition explores the theme of nonurban areas in its first show that has nothing to do with art or architecture
Back to school: Massachusetts college museum gets a $12.5m makeover
The free-entry MassArt Art Museum, formerly known as the Bakalar & Paine Galleries, opens this weekend
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