Museums & Heritage
Brazil’s National Museum receives donation of more than 1,100 fossils—including those of rare dinosaurs
The museum has been slowly rebuilding ever since an electrical fire devastated its building and collection in 2018
Letter to the editor | ‘Charging fees to enter British museums is not the answer, it is a signifier that culture is for someone else’
Rather than creating another “psychological barrier” to culture, leaders and institutions could be thinking about more fair ways to fund the sector, writes Will Jennings
Bard College plans $10m expansion of Center for Curatorial Studies’ library
The expansion of the influential programme’s library and archives will be named the Keith Haring Wing in recognition of a gift from the artist’s foundation
Visitors to Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam hit by fake ticket scam
An imitation website has been phishing for credit card details
19th-century book stolen from Brazilian museum in 2008 is located in London and repatriated
The 1823 naturalist tome describes species of monkeys and bats unique to the Amazon
At the 2024 Met Gala, the most memorable looks ventured beyond the garden party theme
South African singer Tyla’s sandy Balmain dress was a show-stopper—and not just because she had to be carried up the stairs
‘An unsatisfying status quo’: art centre can neither demolish artist Mary Miss’s outdoor installation nor be forced to repair it, judge rules
Stalemate in the dispute over the fate of Miss’s Land art environment in Des Moines, Iowa
Hammer Museum gala draws artists, celebrities and a faculty protest
Ann Philbin’s last pre-retirement bash also set a record for attendance and fundraising
Castle Howard: stage set for Bridgerton and Brideshead, and now for a full-dress Tony Cragg show
The Liverpool-born sculptor's 50-year engagement with organic, layered, forms works in natural harmony with the Yorkshire treasure house and its Arcadian grounds
One of the biggest social media jobs in the art world is now up for grabs
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is on the hunt for a new social media manager
Venus Williams to host new podcast for Carnegie Museum of Art
The tennis legend's audio venture will coincide with a photography exhibition exploring the relationship between artistry and landscape
Poetic pose: Lord Byron the image-conscious Romantic in five portraits
The face of the scandal-ridden, best-selling celebrity poet—who died 200 years ago, and had a great influence on 19th-century artists and composers—was better known in his era than that of anyone save Napoloen Bonaparte
School of Lord Byron: how the first global celebrity influenced art, portraiture and attitudes to built heritage
JMW Turner, Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault were among the artists inspired by the much-portrayed poet whose concern for Venice and the Parthenon Marbles has a resonance 200 years after his death
Welsh pub serving beer to open at museum outside Cardiff
The Vulcan Hotel, which closed in 2012, has been rebuilt on site brick by brick
Russian security forces search Moscow’s Garage Museum
The raid was reportedly related to an investigation into dissident artist Pyotr Verzilov
Lacma raises nearly $3m and acquires works by Tavares Strachan, Judith Baca, Suzanne Jackson and more
The gifts and acquisitions occurred during the museum’s annual Collectors Committee Weekend
Showing respect in the house of the dead: Australian museum removes mummified human remains
Only fully covered Ancient Egyptian mummified remains will remain on display in the Egyptian Gallery of Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum
'Why British museums must start charging entrance fees'
Low pay for museum workers, decreased local authority spending and a theft scandal have highlighted that "it’s time for some difficult choices," says the writer and broadcaster Ben Lewis
Art Gallery of Ontario to reopen after month-long strike as workers and leaders reach contract agreement
The Toronto museum had been closed since 26 March, when members of a union representing more than 400 employees went on strike
Met Museum signs cultural-property agreement with Thailand and returns two statues
In a ceremony at the museum, Met director Max Hollein signed a "memorandum of understanding" together with a representative of the Thai cultural ministry
Prison sentence for climate activist who targeted US National Gallery of Art’s Degas statue
In addition to spending 60 days in prison, Joanna Smith will have to serve 150 hours of community service, ten of which she must spend cleaning graffiti
US authorities return 30 antiquities recovered during trafficking investigations to Cambodia and Indonesia
The antiquities, collectively valued at $3m, include a bronze “Shiva Triad” from Cambodia that the dealer Nancy Wiener donated to the Denver Art Museum after failing to find a buyer for it
Getty Museum restitutes ancient bronze head to Turkey
More than a decade after Turkey asked for it back, the sculpture will finally be returned
MFA Boston returns Ancient Egyptian child’s coffin to Swedish museum it disappeared from decades ago
The clay coffin, which the MFA Boston acquired in 1985 with apparently false documentation, has been missing from the Gustavianum, Uppsala University Museum since at least 1970
The Nazi collaborator who sheltered nearly 300 Van Gogh works during the war: Sam van Deventer’s story is now told
A new biography reveals that the director of the Kröller-Müller Museum had earlier acquired eight Van Goghs for his personal collection—and he may have sold the finest one to Hitler’s deputy, Hermann Göring
Art Institute of Chicago argues Nazi loot claim to its Egon Schiele portrait lacks ‘a single shred’ of evidence
In a filing this week, the museum disputes the Manhattan District Attorney’s claim that the painting was taken from the Austrian cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum by the Nazis
Paris's Grand Palais to reopen as temporary home to Olympics and Centre Pompidou
For the first time since 1937, visitors will be able to pass right through the cavernous nave of the Art Nouveau masterpiece
18th-century glass bottles filled with cherries discovered at George Washington's Mount Vernon residence
Brandy, anyone?
Getty acquires major Bartolomeo Manfredi genre painting that was previously attributed to Caravaggio
The painting, which was estimated at between $4m and $6m when it was offered at Christie’s in 2022, is now on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum
Stolen Italian landscape returned to Oxford's Christ Church Picture Gallery from Romania
Police are appealing for information about two other paintings stolen in the same 2020 burglary