Museums & Heritage
SFMoMA fires contemporary art curator Eungie Joo amid misconduct allegations
Joo had joined the museum in 2017 as its first contemporary art curator and most recently organised an ambitious project by Kara Walker
New perspectives: Annabelle Selldorf brings a fresh angle to the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing
A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square
How Amsterdam’s Drift Museum is working to create more energy than it uses
Sustainability features at heritage-listed former railway factory will include heating system that stores summer warmth for use in the winter months
New report chronicles challenges in making visible the sites of historic US protests
The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s latest "Landslide" report marks a shift from the annual initiative’s usual focus on threatened landscapes
Workers at the Noguchi Museum push to form a union
After months of protests in solidarity with Palestine and against a new dress code banning workers from wearing keffiyehs, the Queens institution's staff are organising for "better conditions"
The most exciting art museum openings and expansions of 2025
The construction of Saadiyat Cultural District is due to be completed, while the Studio Museum in Harlem will unveil its new 82,000 sq. ft building
London-based Studio Weave wins competition to revamp British Museum entrance
New welcome pavilions and a landscaped forecourt are scheduled for completion early 2026
Could Israel’s shuttered embassy in Dublin become a gallery for Palestinian art?
Fresh off a pop-up show in Ireland, the director of the Connecticut-based Palestine Museum US hopes the former Israeli Embassy could become a permanent European outpost
Controversial Ontario Place redevelopment and mega-spa could cost taxpayers billions
A long-awaited report from Ontario’s auditor general finds that the redevelopment plan for Toronto's modernist landscape is “not fair, transparent or accountable”
Robert Smithson’s famed Land art piece Spiral Jetty added to US National Register of Historic Places
The 1,500ft-long, coiling earthwork in Utah’s Great Salt Lake is arguably the best known example of Land art
Strike at Seattle Art Museum ends as visitor services staff ratify first contract
The new contract raises the base hourly wage and reinstates a pre-pandemic retirement programme
Houston's Rothko Chapel reopens after hurricane damage is repaired
The Texas pilgrimage site for devotees of Abstract Expressionism returns just in time for the holidays
1,375-year-old pyramid structure found in Hidalgo, Mexico
Highway road work has uncovered an ancient civilisation’s ceremonial centrepiece
Polychrome 17th-century statue that was stolen from a church in 2007 is returned to Mexico
The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery
Zoé Whitley to step down as director of London's Chisenhale Gallery
Whitley’s five year tenure resulted in 15 exhibitions
Louise Bourgeois’s mammoth spider will return to Tate Modern for the gallery's 25th anniversary
A new “capsule collection” trail will also feature works by Mark Rothko and Dorothea Tanning
Women-only art installation reopens at Mona, allowing some men to enter—and learn about housework
Kirsha Kaechele' Ladies Lounge will be reinstalled at the Hobart museum for a month after the supreme court overturned a ruling that the work was discriminatory
President Biden establishes national monument acknowledging history of forced assimilation at Native American boarding schools
The monument, at the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, will ensure nobody forgets one of the “most horrific chapters in American history”, Biden said
Metropolitan Museum reveals design for new $550m wing for Modern and contemporary art
Designs for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, conceived by the architect Frida Escobedo, show a stepped exterior of latticed limestone
‘There won’t be any artefacts if we don’t turn this crisis around’: the retired priest, 82, facing prison for Magna Carta protest
Revd Sue Parfitt is “quite relaxed” about the prospect of prison for attacking the foundational document as part of climate action but she is upset that her licence to officiate as a priest has been revoked
UK strikes culture partnership deal with Saudi Arabia
The new bilateral agreement is intended to help Saudi Arabia “fulfil its ambition to become a global visitor destination”
MoMA PS1 receives $1m gift from trailblazing collector’s foundation
The gift to the New York contemporary art centre from the organisation named after David Teiger will help to fund an upcoming exhibition programme
Seattle Art Museum visitor services workers are on strike
The action comes after 27 months of contract negotiations reached an impasse; the museum is working with a third-party security firm to keep the galleries open
Saudi Arabia to give €50m towards Centre Pompidou refurbishment
France will also help develop a raft of new museums in the kingdom, including a photography institution
Vatican gives Apollo a hand—literally—ahead of Jubilee Year
Restoration of the marble is expected to be a draw for the year-long event, which will allow public access to works in the Pope’s private collection as well as exhibitions across the Holy See and Rome
Museums without vitrines: the Scottish research team transforming the way we view art
An extended reality platform being developed by a Scottish university allows users to “teleport” around virtual museums
National Portrait Gallery partners with immersive institution to tell the human stories behind its collection
New experience produced by Frameless Creative with London museum to launch national and international tour at MediaCity, Salford, in May 2025
Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plan for new, $444m Herzog and de Meuron-designed building
The institution ended its partnership with the Swiss firm, begun nearly a decade ago, as it reassesses its plans
Influencers: is it time for museums to go all in?
As an advertising agency pays Instagram influencers to promote museums, is it really worth shelling out thousands of dollars for added publicity and to reach new audiences?
Museums turn to consultants to help them go green
Climate experts are helping museums, to create systemic change