Tag: Museum

  • Slave Ship Relic to Depart Smithsonian’s African American History Museum After Decade on View

    A relic of the transatlantic slave trade that has anchored a major gallery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture since its opening will soon leave Washington, DC. According to theAssociated Press,the museum plans to remove a timber fragment from theSão José-Paquete de Africa, a Portuguese slave ship that sank off read more

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  • At Making Their Mark Forum, Art Figures Debate Gender Inequities in the Market and the Museum

    Four years ago, when Komal Shah conceived a forum to celebrate female artists and address enduring gender inequities in the art world, she thought she’d be convening attendees in Washington, D.C., in the glow of Kamala Harris’s White House. Instead, the forum took place against a political backdrop openly hostile toward diversity in the arts. read more

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  • Retired FBI Agents Geoffrey Kelly Details His 22-Year Investigation into the Gardner Museum Heist in New Book

    Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. Next week, the world’s greatest art heist turns 36. To mark the anniversary of the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is a new book read more

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    Retired FBI Agents Geoffrey Kelly Details His 22-Year Investigation into the Gardner Museum Heist in New Book

  • Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years

    While the Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a sizable Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition for the fall, it now appears that that show isn’t the only grand one for a postwar painter on the docket at the New York institution. Last week, the Met posted a job posting for a researcher who would work on read more

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  • Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls' Detroit Museum

    Olayami Dabls is careful to call attention to the distinction between material culture and fine art. After working as an artist and curator for the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in the 1970s, Dabls shifted directions and founded the MBAD African Bead Museum in 1994 to reintroduce African culture and healing into read more

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  • The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Solves a Big Mystery (But Not That One)

    The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, vexed for decades by one of the art world’s most dramatic mysteries, cracked a case of less but still some significance when conservators identified the original fabric for a set of chairs in need of restoration in the museum’s Dutch Room—the site of the greatest art heist of all time. read more

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  • Brooklyn Museum to Explore Removing Overpainting from Erotic Gauguin Relief Panel

    In August, the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation announced that it was dispersing all 63 artworks in its possession to three art museums: the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Among the 29 artworks gifted to the Brooklyn Museum—many of them paintings and sculptures by Chaïm read more

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  • Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum Names New Director

    The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has named Nicholas R. Bell as its next director and CEO. Bell, who was selected via an international search, will start in the role on July 6. He succeeds Josh Basseches, who stepped down at the end of last year after a decade in the role. Bell is currently read more

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  • Dalí Museum in Florida Announces $65 M. Expansion Planned for 2028

    The Dalí MuseuminSt. Petersburgis planning a major expansion expected to begin construction in 2026, with the new facilities slated to open in 2028. The museum said the approximately 35,000-square-foot addition will cost an estimated $65 million and is intended to grow the exhibition spaces, create a dedicated learning center, and introduce new immersive experiences combining read more

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  • New Book Reveals British Museum Staffer Stole 350 Artworks

    A former British Museum staffer who worked in the prints and drawings departmentin the 1970s stole more than 350 artworks and sold some of his haul at an antiques market, according to a new book. As reported by the Independent, “The story of the thefts is recounted in Barnaby Phillips’s forthcoming book, The African Kingdom read more

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    New Book Reveals British Museum Staffer Stole 350 Artworks

  • Plan to Close DePaul Art Museum Faces Community Backlash

    DePaul University in Chicago will close its campus art museum on June 30 after projecting a major budget deficit in 2026. The private university’s president, Robert L. Manuel, first announced the looming shutdown of the DePaul Art Museum (DPAM) in a letter to students and staff last week, citing ongoing reviews of the school’s “long-term read more

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  • The Lume digital art gallery at Indianapolis Museum closes

    In 2021, the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields turned the museum’s fourth floor contemporary art galleries into an exhibition space for high-tech digital art called the Lume. Over the past five years, the controversial initiative featured immersive, crowd-pleasing exhibitions like “Van Gogh Alive” (2021), “Monet & Friends Alive” (2022-23), and “Dalí Alive” (2024-25). However, read more

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  • 74 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Spring

    All roads lead to Italy this season, and not only because the Venice Biennale, the greatest art exhibition of them all, opens there in May. Over in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging a Raphael retrospective—the first ever devoted to the Renaissance master in the US, shockingly. In Paris, at the Louvre, read more

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    74 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Spring

  • The Uncertain Future of Colombia’s Museum of Memory

    BOGOTÁ — In 2011, the Colombian government ordered the creation of a national museum “to achieve the strengthening of the collective memory” around the decades-long armed conflict. That same year, it passed the Victims and Land Restitution Law aimed at providing victims with reparations and justice. More than just a curated collection of objects or read more

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  • Birmingham Museum Seeks Public Help to Find Historic Artwork

    TheBirmingham Museum of Artis asking the public for help locating artworks byCorietta Mitchell, the first Black artist to have a solo exhibition at the museum during the city’s segregation era, according to local news outletWVTM. The institution marks its 75th anniversary this year with a renewed effort to recover what it calls a missing piece read more

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  • Finding God at the Brooklyn Museum

    Detail from an illustrated Book of the Dead (c. 305–30 BCE), papyrus, ink, gold, and paper (photo courtesy the Brooklyn Museum; all other photos Greta Rainbow/Hyperallergic) I’m lucky: I haven’t been to many funerals. The ones I have experienced were not cinematic, weepy affairs in grand cathedrals with an organ and a procession out to read more

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    Finding God at the Brooklyn Museum

  • Poland’s Jewish Museum Director Reinstated After Election

    Seven years after being ousted by the nationalist government, Dariusz Stola will return as director of Poland’s premier Jewish museum, reflecting a broader cultural renaissance in the country. Sola led the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw from its founding in 2014 to steady acclaim, until the newly ascendant right-wing nationalist read more

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    Poland’s Jewish Museum Director Reinstated After Election

  • 350-Year-Old Vrindavani Vastra Returns to India

    The Vrindavani Vastra, a 350-year-old tapestry woven in the foothills of the Himalayas and depicting the life of the god Krishna, will make a six-month homecoming, as part of a loan struck between the British Museum and the state government of Assam in northeastern India. The London institution agreed to return the tapestry in 2027 read more

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  • SoCal’s Bunny Museum Receives Gift of Rabbit Sculpture

    Once dubbed “one of the weirdest, wildest, places you can visit” by SFGate, the Bunny Museum in Altadena, California, burned to the ground in 2025’s Greater Los Angeles Wildfires. Founded by Candace Frazee and her husband Steve Lubanski and dedicated to all things bunny, the beloved SoCal institution had been open to the public since read more

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    SoCal’s Bunny Museum Receives Gift of Rabbit Sculpture

  • High Museum COO Resigns After $600K Disappeared

    News An internal investigation traced “financial irregularities” back to Brady Lum, who had served as the Atlanta art museum’s chief operating officer since 2019. The High Museum of Art in Atlanta (photo CC BY-SA 2.0 by Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr) The chief operating officer at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta has resigned after read more

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    High Museum COO Resigns After 0K Disappeared