Museum’s director Tristram Hunt says securing loans and sponsorship is “more of a challenge” as tension grows between Trump and Tehran

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide—from Lee Krasner's record-setting painting to a Hogarth conversation piece

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Delacroix’s sketchbooks to a pair of Brexit vases

Anna Somers Cocks recalls a telling episode in her relations with the Met’s benefactor, who died on 20 April

The Rocket Man will organise a photography exhibition at the London institution with his husband David Furnish

The Netflix star, who is facing indecent assault charges in the US, is subject of painting series depicting visiting theatre professors at an Oxford college

The Virgin and Laughing Child was recently re-attributed as the artist's “only surviving sculpture”

Fashion continues upward trend in the US, shooting to the top of The Art Newspaper's chart, while the British Museum slips from the top spot in the UK

“Many people are buying membership just so they can get in,” ticket attendant says

Comedy troupe was planning a show at the institution but clashed over the title

A Don McCullin exhibition at Tate Britain symbolises the shift in photography's significance in British museums

From the dazzling dresses of Dior at the V&A to the grim reality of how architecture can affect your health at the Wellcome Collection

Stains on the lavishly decorated gown—made for royal's 21st birthday—show that it had gone to some good parties

In an era of deepening nationalism museums' ability to tell stories of hybridity and cosmopolitanism is vital

The French academics Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr urge President Macron to return African artefacts. But does the report go too far, or not far enough?

New-look galleries invite visitors to explore inside Victorian plaster cast of Roman monument

London's National Gallery and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam are both documenting repairs of major works—plus a personal conservation confession

Museum will receive the buildings in former Olympic park for free, director says

Controversial transfer of Royal Photographic Society collection from Bradford has led to a growing "culture of research" at the museum

Opening of outpost in Dundee this week is latest in series of out-of-London projects

We spoke to the V&A's Alan Derbyshire about Nicholas Hilliard's trick for painting the perfect ruby and why collector's need to look at their miniatures often

The publicly funded £80m institution is the first design museum to open north of the border

Victoria and Albert Museum show promises an in-depth exploration of gaming design and culture

New technology allows novices and scholars to zoom in on the artist’s sketches and notes

Michael Jackson is a thrilling muse at the National Portrait Gallery, while ancient Egypt is given a modern twist at the British Museum