Museums The New Museum Has Named Two Star Curators the Co-Organizers of Its Sixth Triennial, Set for 2026 The show will be the first to take place after the completion of the museum’s major expansion project. By Taylor Dafoe, 2 hours ago
Museums The Centre Pompidou Is Lending Its Brand to a New Museum in Seoul, Expanding Its Portfolio of International Outposts The Paris-based institution has agreed to license its name and works from its collection for a four-year period. By Taylor Dafoe, 1 day ago
Museums Artists and Museums Have Heroically Raised $30 Million to Keep a Historic Portrait From Leaving Britain. Will It Be Enough? The National Portrait Gallery in London has raised about half the sum required to buy Sir Joshua Reynolds’s “Portrait of Omai.” By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 10, 2023
Museums Whitney Museum Director Adam Weinberg Will Step Down After 20 Years, Paving the Way for Curator Scott Rothkopf to Succeed Him Weinberg oversaw the Whitney’s move downtown and helped grow museum attendance, membership, and staff size. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 8, 2023
Museums An Indiana University’s Faculty Have Voted to Halt Its Controversial Plan to Deaccession Three Masterpieces Worth Over $20 Million The vote came just one day after the Association of Art Museum Directors threatened to sanction the museum if the sale went ahead. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 7, 2023
Museums The Pope Has Put a Horse, a Bearded Man, and a Boy—All Marble Fragments Looted From the Parthenon—on a Trip Back to Greece The Vatican is calling the restitution a "donation." By Min Chen, Mar 7, 2023
Museums After Drawn-Out Negotiations, the Whitney Museum Has Reached a Deal With Its Union to Improve Employee Pay and Benefits The movement to unionize among museum workers continues across the country. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 6, 2023
Museums A Pair of Climate Activists in Scotland Smashed and Spray-Painted a Glass Case Housing ‘Braveheart’ Knight William Wallace’s Sword The campaigners wrote 'This Is Rigged' on the broken glass. By Min Chen, Mar 6, 2023
Museums Tory Burch, Alice Walton, and Other Female Philanthropists Have Donated $55 Million to a New Smithsonian Women’s History Museum The Smithsonian identified two possible sites for the museum in October. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 1, 2023
Museums A Drunk Partygoer at a Sydney Museum Event Took a Tumble and Accidentally Damaged Two Do Ho Suh Installations The tipsy attendee was "going hard for a Monday night!" By Richard Whiddington, Mar 1, 2023
Museums Charleston’s International African American Museum Has Announced Its Opening in June, After More Than Two Decades of Planning The institution lives at Gadsden's Wharf, a once-prolific trading port where hundreds of thousands of slaves passed through. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 28, 2023
Museums Winterizing Monuments, Digitizing Archives: How Ukraine Is Fighting to Preserve Its Cultural Heritage a Year Into the Russian Invasion UNESCO has identified damage to 241 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine since February 2022. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 27, 2023
Museums The National Museum of Asian Art Will Hold Onto Looted Artifacts Intended to Return to Yemen to Protect Them From Conflict The two-year agreement can be renewed at the request of the Yemeni government. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 24, 2023
Museums Legendary Ghanaian Sculptor El Anatsui Will Be the Next Artist to Take Over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall The Ghana-born, Nigeria-based sculptor will become the 21st artist selected for the prestigious commission. By Taylor Dafoe, Feb 22, 2023
Museums The Lincoln Memorial Is Getting a $69 Million Museum in a Surprising Place—Underneath It The new museum is expected to open in 2026 in time for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 21, 2023
