Workers at a Brussels Museum Describe a ‘Toxic’ Work Environment Under Its Director’s Rule of ‘Terror’

Museums & Institutions

Workers at a Brussels Museum Describe a ‘Toxic’ Work Environment Under Its Director’s Rule of ‘Terror’

The museum’s staff has detailed some 20 grievances in a letter to a government official.

By Sarah Cascone, Apr 13, 2023

Museums & Institutions

‘It’s Heartbreaking Work’: How Kehinde Wiley Recreated the Light of Renaissance Art to Reflect on America’s Dark Legacy of Racism

"Kehinde Wiley: Archaeology of Silence" is on view now at the de Young Museum in San Francisco

By Sarah Cascone, Apr 10, 2023

Museums & Institutions

Photographer Roger Ballen’s New Art Center in Johannesburg Features Displays That Are Just as Creepy as His Otherworldly Pictures

The Inside Out Centre for the Arts is part museum, part educational facility, part art studio, and home to a humanoid rat.

By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 6, 2023

Museums & Institutions

For Years, This Historic 225-Ton Landscape Art Installation Was at Risk of Demolition—Now It Officially Has a New Home

The reconfigured piece by Elyn Zimmerman had been renamed "Sudama."

By Sarah Cascone, Apr 6, 2023

Museums & Institutions

An Art Expert Has Made a Startling Claim: The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Vermeer Copy May Actually Be the Real Thing

The version of the work at London's Kenwood House has long been accepted as the original.

By Sarah Cascone, Apr 5, 2023

Museums & Institutions

The National Portrait Gallery Raised Just Half the Sum to Buy a Classic Joshua Reynolds Portrait. So the Getty Museum Brought the Rest

The institutions will jointly acquire the painting, with plans to send the work back and forth between the U.S. and U.K.

By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 31, 2023

Museums & Institutions

The Vatican’s Parthenon Marble Fragments Have Officially Entered the Collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens

The objects are back in Greece after a repatriation ceremony on March 24.

By Sarah Cascone, Mar 27, 2023

Museums & Institutions

Mets Fans! Wear Your Hats Tomorrow and Get Free Admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Opening day of Major League Baseball is just around the corner.

By Sarah Cascone, Mar 24, 2023

Museums & Institutions

See Inside the Reopened Rembrandt House Museum, Which Now Displays Nearly a Third More of the Dutch Golden Age Master’s Stuff

The new displays include artifacts dug up from a cesspit outside the building.

By Sarah Cascone, Mar 24, 2023

Museums & Institutions

Workers at the Hispanic Society Museum Have Voted to Strike Following Stalled Negotiations for a Union Contract

The museum's staff first filed their intention to unionize in May 2021.

By Sarah Cascone, Mar 23, 2023

Museums & Institutions

How Will Technology Shape the Museum of Tomorrow? 20 Museum Directors Will Convene in the Bay Area to Explore Digital Horizons

They will be participating at an open symposium taking place on April 21 at Stanford University.

By Min Chen, Mar 22, 2023

Museums & Institutions

The New Museum Has Named Two Star Curators the Co-Organizers of Its Sixth Triennial, Set for 2026

The show will be the first Triennial to take place after the completion of the museum’s major expansion project.

By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 21, 2023

Museums & Institutions

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, Mar 20, 2023

Museums & Institutions

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 & Institutions

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