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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Appointments have been made at the British Museum, Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum

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

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

Remuseum’s second report concludes that admission fees are raising few funds and keeping out potential visitors—and expansions are often not worth the money

The 350-year-old artifact is one of seven objects returned to the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo Native American tribe

The private donation becomes the largest the museum has received to date

While other UK institutions continue to struggle, the British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figures survey has revealed