Tag: Museum
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Police Investigate Suspected Arson at Boston Museum of African American History
Police and federal authorities are investigating a suspected act of arson at the Museum of African American History in Boston after a package containing materials for an upcoming Juneteenth celebration was set on fire outside the institution this week. According to Boston police, the incident occurred around 8 a.m. on Wednesday at the museum’s African read more
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James Turrell to Open Largest Museum Skyspace in Denmark, Floating Art Hotel’s Maiden Voyage in Monaco, and More: Morning Links for June 5, 2026
Good Morning! The largest James Turrell Skyspace made for a museum will open at Denmark’s ARoS Aarhus Art Museum. A 236-foot superyacht is debuting a traveling, “museum-grade” exhibition for exclusive guests, starting in Monaco. Abram Champanier’s New Deal mural, restored and reunited, will go on view at the Museum of the City of New York. read more
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More Than 100 Seattle Art Museum Workers Plan to Unionize
More than 100 Seattle Art Museum employees announced plans this week to unionize, joining the nationwide labor movement that’s swept through art institutions in the last six years. The union, calledthe Seattle Art Museum Workers United, will represent workers in over 20 front- and back-end departments. The union told SAM director and CEO Scott Stulen read more
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Dutch Designer Iris van Herpen’s High-Tech Garments Are On View in a Mid-Career Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum
In 2010,Iris van Herpen, only three years after establishing her eponymous couture brand, sent the first 3D-printed garment down the runway as part of her “Crystallization” collection. A top evoking the skeletal structure of a snake with its ivory-colored coils of 3D-printed polyamide, the piece was a collaboration with British architect Daniel Widrig. “It was read more
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An Installation at the British Museum Recreates the Bayeux Tapestry’s Landscape
In the run-up to the British Museum’s historic presentation of the Bayeux Tapestry, the institution will open “Tapestry of Trees,” an outdoor installation by garden designer Andy Sturgeon. Meant to evoke a medieval woodland, the installation will be composed of plants and trees typically found in East Sussex, where the Battle of Hastings—the primary subject read more
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New York’s Neue Galerie to Merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in Major Expansion
The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York’s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution’s modern art offerings. The New York Times reports that the merger will take place in 2028 and that the Neue read more
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Art Movements: New Museum Names Its First Artist Studio Residents
Community Plus, Forge Project’s 2026 fellows, the Robert Therrien Estate leaves Gagosian for Zwirner, and this year’s Frieze uniform. Left to right: New Museum Artists-in-Residence Yun Choi (photo Verena Blok), Alison Kuo (photo Da Ping Luo), and Korakrit Arunanondchai (photo Brad Trone) (all courtesy New Museum) Art Movements,published every Thursday afternoon, is a roundup of read more
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UK’s Palestinian Ambassador Calls on Government to Have British Museum Reinstate the Word ‘Palestinian’
The Palestinian ambassador to the UK has called on the government to aid in getting the British Museum to reinstate the word “Palestinian” in its wall texts. Husam Zomlot, the ambassador, raised his complaint to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, a ministry of foreign affairs, according to the Guardian. In that Guardian report, Zomlot called read more
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Diego Rivera’s Grandson Donates 150,000 Objects to Major Mexico City Museum
Mexico City’s Museo Anahuacalli is set to receive more than 150,000 objects from Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, the grandson of Diego Rivera, in a donation that significantly expands the museum’s holdings and renews attention on the artist’s original vision for the site. As first reported byThe Art Newspaper, the gift spans centuries, from 16th-century ceramics read more
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Smithsonian Taps Peabody Essex’s Lynda Roscoe Hartigan to Lead American Art Museum, a Target of Trump Administration
The Smithsonian on Tuesday named Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, currently the executive director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, as the next Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). She begins September 8. Hartigan succeeds Jane Carpenter-Rock, who has led SAAM on an interim basis since September read more
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Dance Your Way to the Museum
Daily Newsletter The benefits of rave culture, Genesis P-Orridge’s subversive mail art, Jean Shin’s memorial to the trees of a New York cemetery, and more. If you think raves are just hazy gatherings of intoxicated people who have forgotten where they are and can’t tell the difference between yesterday and next week, think again. According read more
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Activist Super-Glues Herself to Display Cabinet at Berlin’s Bode Museum
On Tuesday afternoon, police were called when an activist super-glued herself to a display cabinet at the Bode Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island. The news was reported by the German magazine Monopol. The action was claimed by New Generation, a successor movement to Last Generation, a German/Italian group of climate activists best known for gluing read more
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Met Museum to Stage Giacometti Show in Temple of Dendur This Summer
The Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian structure that counts among the most beloved attractions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will this summer host an exhibition of sculptures by the Swiss modernist Alberto Giacometti—a rarity, since the Temple of Dendur does not often act as a space for shows of any kind. The exhibition, read more
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V&A Censors Catalogue After Pressure from China, Former High Museum COO Pleads Not Guilty to Theft Charge: Morning Links for April 15, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines CHINA’S RED PEN. The Victoria and Albert Museum censored maps and images in its catalogues following objections from its Chinese printer and state authorities over content deemed sensitive to Beijing, the Guardian reports. The museum agreed to remove material from at least two read more
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Sharjah’s Barjeel Art Foundation Is Building its First Museum
The Barjeel Art Foundation, the organization that facilitates the celebrated trove of modern and Arab art assembled by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, has broken ground on its first dedicated museum in Sharjah, due to open in January 2028. Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi announced the news on Instagram yesterday alongside a photograph from a recent visit read more
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Hirshhorn Museum Director Melissa Chiu Leaves for Guggenheim, Another Smithsonian Departure
Melissa Chiu will depart her post as director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., to lead the Guggenheim Museum in New York, making her the latest person to depart a Smithsonian-run museum as the Trump administration continues its crackdown. She will report to Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation director and CEO Mariët read more
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Smiljan Radic Wins the Pritzker Prize, ‘Men Retire But Women Get Fired From Museum Leadership’ Says Anne Pasternak: Morning Links for March 13, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines HOUSE OF CARDS. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has won the famed Pritzker Prize, the industry’s top accolade, which was delayedbecause ofTom Pritzker’s ties toJeffrey Epstein, according tothe New York Times. In an email, Radic said his designs “all try to reach a read more
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At Making Their Mark Forum, Brooklyn Museum Director Anne Pasternak Notes Troubling Pattern in Museum Leadership
During a talk in Washington, D.C. last weekend, Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak said she sees as a troubling pattern in museum leadership. In light of recent museum leadership reshuffles, she argued that male museum directors often retire, while women more frequently get fired, Charlotte Burns reported in the Financial Times Thursday. “I’m petrified about read more
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Brian Eno and 200+ Artists Urge British Museum to “Stop Erasing Palestine”
News An open letter criticizes the institution for allegedly altering displays in its Middle East galleries after complaints from a pro-Israel group. Musician, producer. and activist Brian Eno at the 32nd National March for Palestine in London on October 11, 2025 (photo Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images) Over 200 artists and cultural groups are read more
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Denver Art Museum Reveals 2025 Acquisitions, Including Works by Tishan Hsu, Berthe Morisot, and More
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