Museums & Heritage

SFMoMA lays off 20 employees amid persistently low attendance and rising operational costs

The museum says its visitor numbers are just 65% of what they were pre-Covid

British Museum chairman George Osborne tells guests he is eager to reach Parthenon Marbles deal

His speech was delivered at the annual dinner, held provocatively in the gallery where the ancient sculptures are housed

Ahead of Argentina’s runoff election, the country’s art sector faces economic crisis and political upheaval

With far-right candidate Javier Milei slightly ahead in polls before the 19 November election, Argentina’s resilient cultural sector braces for turmoil

Art Fund, the charity that helped buy Rokeby Venus for the nation, celebrates 120 years with new campaign

Organisation pledges to back initiatives linking museums with local communities for anniversary project

Law firm sponsor for National Portrait Gallery prize sparks controversy

Herbert Smith Freehills, which runs an "oil and gas" division, replaces BP

Origami cranes and muddy boots: Fifa Museum unveils the memorabilia it acquired from the Women’s World Cup

Japanese markers of gratitude, along with Indigenous symbols of welcome from Australia and New Zealand, will be shown alongside mud-stained footwear, kit and balls in a new exhibition

Pérez Art Museum Miami receives $25m donation from its namesake benefactor

Jorge Pérez, who gave the museum $35m in 2013, is renewing his support

Indian steel tycoons to launch art centre near historic site of Hampi

The billionaire Jindal family will open the exhibition venue and artist residency space in February next year

With a new name and building, Pittsburgh’s Institute for Contemporary Art takes on a more ambitious mandate

Formerly the Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University’s contemporary art gallery will more than double its space when new facility opens in 2027

A delightful jumble of faces, limbs and torsos: inside Michelangelo's ‘secret room’

The space, which was discovered in a former coal bunker accessed via a trapdoor, features never-before-seen drawings by the Renaissance master

US National Gallery of Art receives its first works of Haitian art, via two gifts

The 15 works, donated by two collecting couples, will form the core of an exhibition in autumn 2024

Who are the culture warriors? A closer look at the group piling pressure on the National Trust

Restore Trust wants to “knock common sense” into the National Trust—but a look at who is behind the group reveals some familiar figures who have long been pushing a hard-right agenda

Peter York
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On the eve of a planned strike, Brooklyn Museum workers ratify first union contract

After over two years of negotiations, members of the museum’s UAW Local 2110 union voted to ratify their first contract

Guggenheim Museum laces up for year-long collaboration with Converse

A focal point of the partnership between the museum and sports clothing brand will be support for the Guggenheim’s internship programme

How Velázquez's 'Rokeby Venus' became a symbol of public pride—and political protest

This week's attack by climate protesters is the third time that the National Gallery masterpiece has been recruited to articulate contemporary social or cultural concerns

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Paper, politics and poetry: why artists’ books from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia deserve a closer look

British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists

World Press Photo ‘shocked’ at ousting of Hungarian National Museum director in LGBTQ+ exhibition row

Images of a care home in Manila by Hannah Reyes Morales fell foul of right-wing lawmakers

British Museum releases further details of independent review into thefts

The review team will now liaise with the police for the criminal investigation

Odesa Museum of Fine Arts rocked by Russian missile strike on 124th anniversary

Much of the collection was evacuated when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began last year

US university museum returns five looted antiquities to Italy

Two of the objects will be handed over the Italian authorities, while three will remain on view at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta

Artists withdraw work from US National Gallery in protest of ‘government funding of Israel’s military assault’ in Gaza

A collaborative sculpture by Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson was removed from an exhibition at the Washington, DC museum

Protesters calling for ceasefire in Gaza take over base of the Statue of Liberty

Hundreds of protesters affiliated with the group Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in at the National Park Service site

Following protests, Toronto museum reinstates Palestinian artists’ work in exhibition on 'Death'

The Royal Ontario Museum had edited wall text and cropped an image of a painting, which the artist says amounted to “censorship and alteration”

The legacy banking foundation buying up works at Artissima for Turin’s major museums

Fondazione Arte CRT’s new chief wants to bring art to the masses via public art programmes

Cimabue ‘kitchen’ painting placed under export ban ends up at the Louvre

The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted

Rashid Johnson and Dyani White Hawk make new works for Whitney Museum restaurants

The museum's revamped dining areas include lush installations by Johnson and White Hawk that blend interior and exterior spaces

Museums around the world wonder how—or if—to respond to Israel-Hamas war

Many cultural institutions have remained silent about the ongoing crisis

Gareth Harris. with additional reporting by Benjamin Sutton and Stéphane Renault

A new artist-designed ‘chapel’ to grace Kansas City

The artist Summer Wheat will create a space for visitors to “explore their inner world” on the Kansas City Museum campus

Collectors Marilyn and Larry Fields make ‘landmark gift’ of 79 works to MCA Chicago

The gifted works are predominantly by woman-identifying and Bipoc artists, including pieces by Huma Bhabha, Arthur Jafa, Adrian Piper, Jennie C. Jones and Cindy Sherman