In the past few years, unionised employees at more than a dozen US museums have finalised their first contracts with management, but how have their day-to-day lives changed as a result?

From a high-rise museum to an artist’s apartment turned project space, Sam Thorne, director-general of Japan House London, reveals his favourite places to discover art in the megacity and beyond

The new centre is to “include groups of victims who have so far received less attention,” the Bundestag says

Poles voted in record numbers on the weekend, paving the way for the opposition parties led by Donald Tusk to form a coalition government

Docents—voluntary educators who are frequently white, of retirement age and middle class—embody the tensions between the status quo and change in US museums

Despite a slew of records set for Western art in Asia, including new highest prices for Modigliani and Mark Bradford, the Hong Kong sale made below its low estimate

A virtual museum in the popular game counteracts players who deny or distort the history of antisemitism

The Washington, DC, museum opens on 21 October with an ambitious show of previously unseen large-scale sculptures and immersive installations

As the country's economy takes a nosedive, its institutions face fiscal freeze and covert control amid an increasingly chaotic and arbitrary government censorship regime

Could museums replicate the unlikely film pairing that became a massive hit?

Employees in the sector increasingly find their jobs exhausting and unfulfilling—but how can they avoid burnout at work?

Many of the biggest art museums in New York and elsewhere have raised the price of general admission to $30, while others continue to pursue free-entry policies

Darb 1718, 'a really significant space', hosts contemporary art exhibitions, concerts, events and workshops

The Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is displaying an exhibition that pays homage to the unsung influence and secret history of Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen

The Museum of Repressed Writers in Tbilisi was created to remember the creatives who were silenced by the Soviet Union. But, after months of political tension, the future of the museum hangs in the balance

Two New York institutions are overhauling their education facilities, while others test a digital-first style of art pedagogy

Andrei Vitalievich Maglin is holding thousands of works from the Ukrainian city of Kherson

Julia Halperin examines the often mysterious recruitment procedure for new museum directors in the US, which has come under increased scrutiny

The "arm's length" principle, which frowns on political meddling in museums, is being eroded by policy hawks, writes artist and activist Bob and Roberta Smith

Art historians are concerned the culture ministry is lining up candidates to run top institutions including Florence’s Uffizi Galleries and Milan’s Pinacoteca di Brera

With his first official solo show in 14 years, Banksy left his tag on the Scottish city, home to the mysterious street artist's favourite work of art in the UK

The Indian curator, appointed a year after a racism dispute at the centre, hopes to diversify audiences and expand the presence of art across the Brutalist complex

Paintings by Modigliani and Kusama among the 50 works to be offered in Hong Kong—with more potentially coming to the block in New York

An expert on Mughal, Rajput and Deccan painting traditions, she was unafraid to address rising nationalism in state-led cultural institutions

The firing of a curator for making critical statements against the museum's founder has prompted a long-overdue debate within the art world

The contemporary art institution is one of 15 “cultural assets” in development in the Arabian state’s AlUla heritage region

The trove stolen from the Kelten Römer Museum near Munich was the biggest Celtic gold find of the 20th century

Visitors who accessed text via QR codes saw collector Emil Georg Bührle described as “a Nazi sympathiser, authoritarian militarist, at the very least a war profiteer and probably a war criminal”

The museum won the prize for its six-year refurbishment and redisplay of one of Scotland's largest art collections, amassed by the late shipping magnate William Burrell