The small but mighty museum for outsider art is reopening after a two-year overhaul

The unusual move follows years of negotiations between the museum, the collector and the Kingdom of Benin

Other cultural sites have also been steadily shutting down to visitors as the Vatican marks the death of Pope Francis

For over 600 years carpets from Anatolia, Turkey and Persia have been used in Catholic ceremony and religious paintings by artists including Andrea del Verrochio to indicate a carefully defined, sacred space

The latest development in the ongoing dispute over a 1916 portrait believed to have been stolen from Fritz Grünbaum by the Nazis

The Barcelona museum's latest revamp has added 2,000 sq. m for immersive exhibitions

The museum in Kansas City has tapped the firm Weiss Manfredi to overhaul its campus

The New Taipei City Art Museum, which opens to the public on 25 April, is part of a drive to distinguish the municipality from the neighbouring capital

The settlement with the successor of Max Silberberg, of which details are confidential, allows the painting to remain on display at the Kunsthaus Zurich

The event, planned to take place in London's Trafalgar Square on 26 July, will draw folklore and traditions from across the UK

The centre in Chicago will feature a tiled installation by Finch and a bright, abstract composition by Adams

The election of the new pope will be closely watched by supporters of the Argentinian pontiff’s legacy looking for a successor who will act as a progressive voice, highlighting global climate crisis and the needs of immigrants and the poor

Four members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to the US Vice-President to articular their "great concern over [the Smithsonian's] future"

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the country’s largest museum devoted to Canadian art, has also received $18m from the federal government toward the renovation and expansion project

The painting, “Christ Carrying the Cross”, from around 1565, had been enlarged in the 18th century, work the Getty’s conservators had to painstakingly undo

The painting by the Nazi artist Heinrich Knirr was originally installed in the German embassy in London in 1937

Salwa Mikdadi’s Abu Dhabi-based institution is digitising and cataloguing tens of thousands of documents and artefacts

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a major exhibition opening this summer

Politicians in the city say the “inadequate” display of the mixed-media piece depicting Giuseppe Pinelli, who died after falling out of a police station window, fails to properly confront a dark chapter in the city’s history

The longtime curator of arms and armour has served as the museum’s chief of curatorial affairs and conservation since January 2024

A Veronese show in May is set to be latest in long line of Renaissance Venice crowd-pleasers for the Spanish institution

Amid a backlash by locals fed up with party-loving visitors, the city’s tourism authority has teamed up with museums to promote a series of exhibitions

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a selection of his most captivating works to see in the city all year round

If everything goes according to plan, the buildout will open just before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze

A Trump executive order aimed at cracking down on vandalism in Washington, DC has turned up the heat on climate protests

As part of Canada’s national nature prescription programme, healthcare professionals can send visitors to the gallery in support of their psychological wellbeing

The initiative, already underway and continuing through May 2026, comes as the Trump administration has pressured arts funders and institutions to prioritise semiquincentennial projects

Jimmy Donaldson, who has nearly 400 million followers on the video-streaming platform, shot a viral video in Giza, which may be helping to educate a new audience

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