Museums & Heritage

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Former Tate chief appointed inaugural chair of Gallery Climate Coalition

Frances Morris says she will be regaining a climate advocacy role at a crucial moment

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Museum visitor figures, William Morris mania and Marguerite Matisse—podcast

Analysing the highs and lows of our recent attendance survey, plus a tour of a show exploring how the UK’s most famous Victorian designer ”went viral”, and a chat about the ways Henri Matisse’s daughter shaped his life and art

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Seoul museums shut their doors as court removes President Yoon

Downtown commercial galleries were also among those to make the decision as police prepared for potential political violence

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‘We cannot remain silent’: Museums in Los Angeles brace for Trump’s immigration crackdown

Faced with anti-immigrant policies, institutional leaders are providing “know your rights” guidance

Miami collecting couple gift multi-million pound Joan Mitchell work to Tate

Jorge and Darlene Pérez will also fund curatorial endowment and have pledged to make a donation of African art

Smithsonian leader: institution will continue to operate ‘free of partisanship’ following Trump attack

Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III has affirmed in a memo to staff that the institution will “remain steadfast in our mission to bring history, science, education, research and the arts to all Americans”

Changing the narrative: National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago

Housed in one of the historic Jane Addams Homes, the new museum aims to challenge perceptions about the sector

Museu de Arte de São Paulo traces its own history and evolution across exhibitions in its new tower

The museum’s inaugural programming in its new 14-storey wing chronicles and builds on the museum’s 78-year legacy

‘We can’t predict the future or what will happen’: Trump’s slashing of US foreign aid hits heritage conservation

Restoration and preservation projects in countries from Sierra Leone to Ukraine are now at risk following US government’s sudden cuts to aid funding

‘We are crying’: heritage authorities express sorrow after Sudan National Museum looted and ransacked

The museum, which houses artefacts dating back millennia, has been caught in the crossfire of the civil war raging in the North African country

Comment | Hastily reinstalled ethnographic galleries have turned Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology into political theatre

Inaugurated in January by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, the revamped yet unfinished galleries devoted to Mexico’s living Indigenous cultures reflect the dominant party’s agenda, not scholarship or a curatorial vision

Museums in southern Brazil still recovering after last year’s floods

Damage and destruction decimated visitor numbers to cultural events and institutions last year but optimism is high they will return in 2025

US museums seek to provide safe spaces for LGBTQ+ communities amid government rollbacks of their rights

As Republicans and the Trump administration target DEI initiatives and queer and trans communities, vocal leaders at a few institutions are standing firm

Yoko Ono’s acclaimed Tate Modern retrospective will travel to MCA Chicago

The museum will be the only US venue for the exhibition, which brings together more than 200 objects including participatory installations and performance documentation

Tate returns Nazi-looted Henry Gibbs painting to heirs of Jewish dealer

The UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel says the work was taken by the Nazis as “an act of racial persecution”

US authorities return two Khmer artefacts to Cambodia

The two statues were seized during investigations into international smuggling networks including that of notorious trafficker Subhash Kapoor

MoMA picks chief curator of prints and drawings as next director

Christophe Cherix will replace Glenn Lowry, who has been the museum’s director since 1995 and guided it through two important expansions

Los Angeles wildfires put museum-lender relationships in spotlight

As fires approached the Getty and Norton Simon Museum campuses in early January, those museums’ leaders called far-away lenders to reassure them that their art was safe

The Frick: Annabelle Selldorf interview and our review, plus a Taiso Yoshitoshi woodblock print—podcast

A chat with the architect behind the New York institution’s transformation and an art historian’s view on it, plus a discussion about a sea-themed work by the last great ukiyo-e master

Comment | Why Edinburgh was the obvious location for the Palestine Museum's first satellite branch

While many jurisdictions are making it increasingly hard for Palestinian artists, Scotland's hospitality has been heartwarming, says the Connecticut-based institution's director

Trump aims to remove ‘improper ideology’ from Smithsonian with new executive order

Vice President JD Vance will oversee the removal of “divisive, race-centered ideology” and deny funding to exhibitions that “degrade shared American values”

Paintings safe from soup as Just Stop Oil ‘hangs up the high viz’

The controversial climate campaign group, whose protests have included throwing orange cornflour at Stonehenge and supergluing themselves to various works of art, says its final action will take place in April

‘Ravaging shared heritage’: South Korea wildfires destroy ancient temple and threaten Unesco site

At least 28 people have died in the fires, which are now the country's worst ever natural fire disaster

Vancouver Art Gallery parts ways with director and chief executive Anthony Kiendl

Kiendl’s departure comes a few months after the gallery pulled the plug on an ambitious but costly building project it had already spent C$60m on

‘First museum in Europe dedicated to contemporary Palestinian art’ to open in Edinburgh

The Palestine Museum US’s director hopes the institution will challenge “dominant narratives and showcase the rich cultural heritage of Palestine”

Yale Center for British Art reopens after two years

The museum will mark the occasion with solo exhibitions of J.M.W. Turner and Tracey Emin in its building, designed by the Modernist architect Louis Kahn

São Paulo's Museu de Arte to unveil sprawling expansion featuring 14-storey tower

This month’s opening will more than double the museum's space, and help to overcome its infrastructure limitations

Awardsnews

ICA Boston launches $100,000 award for women artists, with Sarah Sze winning inaugural edition

The new Meraki Artist Prize is funded by Fotene Demoulas, whose family owns the Market Basket supermarket chain

A new destination for contemporary art takes shape in Guayaquil, Ecuador

Construction on the Eacheve Foundation’s new complex broke ground in January and is on track to be completed in time for an opening in autumn 2025