Museums
Is the Israel Museum’s Birds’ Head Haggadah Nazi-era loot?
The manuscript was once owned by the family of a German-Jewish politician who opposed Hitler
Austria’s Essl Museum to shut its doors after 17 years
Contemporary art collection will be kept in storage but there will be no more exhibitions
Bonn and Bern team up to show controversial Gurlitt collection
Exhibition aims to “contribute to transparency” as researchers investigate how much of the art was looted by the Nazis
Recession takes a heavy toll on Brazil’s art scene
Some museums have closed their doors as other ailing institutions look to the Olympics to raise funds
Indians and Pakistanis work together to realise Partition Museum
Project leaders announce fundraising goals before conference in Delhi
The Met gets a second chance to get contemporary art right
After 75 years of fumbling, the New York museum can use the Breuer building to play to its strengths and explore art-making across time
UK places export bar on £15m Veronese drawing
Museums may have difficulty matching steep price of remarkable work on paper
Latino and Latin American artists to meet in Pacific Standard Time
New research leads curators to rip up the rulebook ahead of the Getty’s ambitious PST: LA/LA event
Huntington expands American art galleries
The new $10.3m wing is due to open in October with an exhibition of lead donors’ 18th and early 19th-century art collection
Philippe Apeloig on the art of the museum logo
The graphic designer who has worked with several institutions discusses its raison d’être
Frick expansion, take two
The museum has put out a call to architects for new designs to create more gallery space—but the gated garden remains safe
How London's V&A is helping to inspire Chinese design in Shenzhen
London museum will lend works and organise touring exhibitions in new design complex
Leading German museum director, Max Hollein, heads to San Francisco
New director of Fine Arts Museums brings experience of running three Frankfurt institutions
Museums and public galleries in Brussels in lockdown in wake of terrorist attacks
Police evacuate park near royal palace after abandoned suitcase found
J. Paul Getty Trust and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to jointly develop data technologies
Collaboration will build data gathering, processing and visualisation tools to preserve world’s cultural heritage
Museums seek help as censorship grows in Turkey
Research group to publish guide for artists and museums facing legal action
Asian collectors unveil plans to build major museums
Spaces in Bangladesh and Indonesia will strengthen cultural infrastructure in South and Southeast Asia
Private museum pops up to fill a gap in Brussels
A former brewery on a canal is being refurbished to house a new non-profit contemporary art space