The directors of the British Museum, V&A East and Tate Modern talked activism, funding, empire and more in a wide-ranging discussion on The Art Newspaper’s Week in Art podcast

Japanese acquisitions have been funded by maker of Benson & Hedges, Winston, Camel and Silk Cut

The museum's new wing dedicated to American democracy will open in 2026, just in time for the US’s semiquincentennial

The campaign highlights the dramatic drop in number of students studying art, design and technology at GCSE

The money will be used for programming related to the semiquincentennial of the US in 2026

The Wyss Foundation’s donation will create more than 5,000 sq. ft of extra space for the museum’s 20th-century art collection

In front of a crowd at Frieze Masters, Chris Bryant MP discussed funding, culture wars and the importance of education

Hanwha, the main partner of the forthcoming museum, has come under fire for its links to Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems

The original budget for the museum has so far been surpassed by £100m

Hanwha, which will operate the forthcoming museum, has come under fire for its ties to Elbit Systems

Green light given to property sales in hopes of boosting cash-strapped cultural quarter

The Welsh government has promised over £3m to repair Wales' national cultural institution, but the true figure needed could be more than seven times higher

The Israel-Gaza war has escalated campaigns against arts funders deemed to be problematic

Hit by austerity cuts and activist boycotts, who is standing up for the arts?

We look at the impact of 14 years of Tory rule on the culture sector—and ask if the future looks any brighter

Supreme auditing body Cour des comptes judges Paris museum's five-year renovation project as “underfunded and insufficiently piloted”

Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party—even the Animal Welfare Party—tell us about their policies for the arts

Kate Casprowiak Scher, the Bellevue Arts Museum’s new permanent director, explains that candour about the institution’s finances helped bring the kunsthalle in suburban Seattle back from the brink

Visual-art projects receiving support include a new Agnes Denes work in California, a Duane Linklater commission in New York and a public collaboration to help heal Indigenous generational trauma in Alaska

The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has received a grant from the Terra Foundation to get the 41 paintings ready for their first public exhibition since 2010

The Vulcan Hotel, which closed in 2012, has been rebuilt on site brick by brick

Sales of art collections may be forced on English local authorities that are technically bankrupt following cuts in grants from central government

Compensating participants for group exhibitions is an important but taboo subject, as is the fee amount institutions provide

Local authorities in England are taking drastic action, including scrapping all funding for museums, leading some experts to argue that new funding models are the only way to survive

The money will go towards the institution’s endowment and operational expenses

As the baby-boomer generation of major donors pulls back or dies off, museums are struggling to attract their heirs’ interest

A new dossier shows how those running the organisation are struggling to “find a path to a balanced budget”

Fifteen years since Iceland’s banking crisis, funding cuts have left the nation’s art in a state of potential peril

Institutions are scrambling to identify whether their buildings contain the potentially dangerous material

The third edition of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Public Arts Challenge is supporting projects across the country, from Honolulu to Philadelphia