Museums
Landmark Fabergé loan show scuppered by rising political tensions
Plans to send works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' extensive collection to Russia were put on indefinite hold after insurance costs shot up by $1m
Homegrown philanthropy fuels the new Speed Art Museum
Decade of renovation ends with marathon opening for expanded gallery
Football outscores culture as Qatar spending slumps
Museum layoffs and project suspensions gather pace in Qatar as oil revenue collapse continues
Stories of progress and property: on the European galleries at the V&A
The new installation raises important historical questions and brings much joy
Guy Cogeval will continue as the Musée d’Orsay’s director for another year
Contract renewed despite staff challenges to his leadership and ability to continue in the role
Will Elton John donate classic photography works to Tate?
More than 150 modernist images drawn from the musician’s collection will go on show later this year
Secret flight path of the Parthenon statue
Hermitage director reveals "circuitous" route that marble sculpture took from London to St Petersburg to avoid Greek seizure
Marc-Olivier Wahler announced as the next director of Broad MSU
The role has been empty since the death of founding director Michael Rush last year
Bede’s World medieval museum could re-open after funding meltdown
Local charity in talks to take over heritage site dedicated to the venerable religious scholar
Portland Collection opens to public for first time with rarely seen Michelangelo drawing
Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire will house one of the finest aristocratic collections in England
‘This is living antiquity’: the director of the Hermitage wants to rebuild Palmyra
The Russian institution’s collection of Palmyra artefacts could be used to reconstruct the ancient Syrian city<br>
Full steam ahead for Italy’s museums reform
Increasingly complex reorganisation is ambitious—and far from finished
Who will lead the Musée d’Orsay?
Some staff question president Guy Cogeval's fitness to keep the post
Sneak peek inside the Met Breuer
The New York museum opened to the press on Tuesday with a preview of the opening exhibitions
People of Geneva say ‘non’ to museum extension designed by Jean Nouvel
The proposal for the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is sent back to the drawing board after 54% vote against it<br>
Wim Pijbes to leave Rijksmuseum for new museum on Dutch coast
Multi-millionaire collector lures director away from Amsterdam to lead contemporary art space
Israel Museum’s longstanding and well-connected director to step aside
In new role US-born James Snyder will continue to foster Jerusalem institution’s global relationships<br>
Gerhard Richter slams proposed closure of Germany's Museum Morsbroich
Plans to shut institution and sell its seminal Modern and contemporary works are "alarming" artist says
Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum returns Khmer statue
The sculpture, which was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex during the country's civil war, is the last of its kind to leave a US public collection
Met clarifies ‘pay what you wish’ entry after legal settlement
The museum puts three-year-old lawsuit over entrance fees to rest and will change its signage to ask for 'suggested admission'
Tate Britain commissions Pablo Bronstein to fill Duveen Galleries with ‘deliciously jarring’ performances
The Buenos Aires-born, London-based is expected to draw on his interests in Baroque architecture and spectacle
A timeline of African American history, told through quilts
Pieces in the Bruce Museum show cover cultural milestones and important figures, from the early Civil Rights activist Ida B. Wells to 1967 Supreme Court case about interracial marriage
US academic takes the helm of London’s Soane museum
Bruce Boucher taught at UCL for 24 years before becoming director of Fralin Museum in Virginia
Three New York artists share their advice for the Met Breuer
Deborah Kass, Natalie Frank and T.J. Wilcox tell us what they would like to see the museum do in the Madison Avenue space