Two collectors in San Diego, Calif., voluntarily turned over 65 archaeological artifacts to the Mexican government earlier this month. Norm Werthman and Pete Mechalas rendered the objects in a ceremony …
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The workers at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library voted on Friday (May 19) to ratify their first contract, ending one of New York’s longest museum strikes in years. Workers …
As climate catastrophe looms, institutions around the world have come to realize that it is not enough to proclaim good intentions. To make a real difference, a designated member of …
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York has a transformative and grand new wing. Although much attention has been paid in recent years to the institution’s main …
miniature rediscovered by Old Master woman added to the collection of the United States National Gallery of Art
At Caterina Angela Pierozzi’s Annunciation (1677) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has stepped up its purchases of works by women artists …
Kevin Ching has joined Christie’s as the auction house’s president for Asia, following a long tenure at Sotheby’s as managing director in Asia from 2006 to 2021. Ching will take …
The major Willem de Kooning exhibition will be inaugurated during the 2024 Venice Biennale
A major exhibition exploring Willem de Kooning’s passion for Italy is due to open next year in Venice, coinciding with the Biennial 2024. The exhibition, organized in partnership with the …
Wartime Museum on a remote Scottish island, one of five British cultural centers shortlisted for the world’s biggest museum prize
A little-known museum in the Orkney Islands which reopened last year is one of five UK museums selected as finalists for the 2023 Art Fund Museum of the Year, the …
Sculpture of a black woman – painted white by vandals – cleaned by a UK seaside community
Hundreds of people have helped clean up and restore a sculpture of a seated black woman by American artist Tschabalala Self which was vandalized last week (May 15). The three …
Sometimes called the “Versailles of the North”, the Dutch royal palace of Het Loo has been radically transformed after a five-year, €171 million renovation, including an “invisible” underground extension of …