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
Museums & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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 & Institutions 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
Museums & Institutions Museums Have Artists in Residence. The Brooklyn Museum Asks, Why Not Entrepreneurs in Residence? Rachel Shechtman has been tapped to build the framework for the museum's new Entrepreneur in Residence program. By Annikka Olsen, Feb 21, 2023
Museums & Institutions In a Bid to Become a Destination for Latino Art, the Blanton Museum in Texas Just Acquired More Than 5,000 Works The works come from the Gilberto Cárdenas and Dolores Garcia Collection. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 15, 2023
Museums & Institutions Hank Willis Thomas on How His 10-Foot-Tall Super Bowl Sculpture Stands as a Monument to ‘Higher Goals’ Following Sunday's game, the sculpture will move to the Arizona State University Art Museum. By Sarah Cascone, Feb 14, 2023
