Museums & Institutions The British Museum Will Reveal Stonehenge’s Mysteries With a Blockbuster Show of Hundreds of Ancient Objects Next Year The 430 objects in the show tell the story of the context of Stonehenge. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Dec 14, 2021
Museums & Institutions Brice Marden, Richard Serra, and Other Artists Mounted a Private Campaign to Push the Met to Remove the Sackler Name In a letter, 77 high-profile artists called on the Met to ditch the family name. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 14, 2021
Museums & Institutions Caving to Legal Pressure, the Louvre Has Agreed to Reverse Significant Changes It Made to a Room With a Cy Twombly Mural As part of the agreement, the Cy Twombly Foundation has dropped its lawsuit against the museum. By Naomi Rea, Dec 10, 2021
Museums & Institutions In a Landmark Move, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Removed the Sackler Name From Its Walls The news was announced in a joint statement with the Sackler family. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 9, 2021
Museums & Institutions The Netherlands Is Ready to Spend $198 Million to Bring a Rembrandt Self-Portrait Back Home for Good The painting has belonged to the French Rothschild family since 1844. By Vivienne Chow, Dec 9, 2021
Museums & Institutions American Photographer James Van Der Zee’s Remarkable Archive Will Now Live at the Met, in a Unique Partnership With the Studio Museum Among the luminaries he photographed are Jean-Michel Basquiat and the pastor Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. By Artnet News, Dec 8, 2021
Museums & Institutions Finance Titan Peter Lynch Has Donated $20 Million Worth of Art to Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art Pieces by Picasso, Sargent, Cassatt, and more are bound for Lynch’s alma mater, along with a $5 million grant. By Taylor Dafoe, Dec 7, 2021
Museums & Institutions A Major New Art Center Has Opened in a Former Moscow Power Plant, But Rising Political Unrest in the Region Is Cooling Excitement The opening of the international museum comes as tension rises between Russia and the West. By Kate Brown, Dec 7, 2021
Museums & Institutions A Sculpture of the Laocoön Group Was Vandalized at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Leaving Two of Its Figures Headless The museum says it is working with the San Francisco Police Department to recover the missing fragments of the statue. By Julia Halperin, Dec 6, 2021
Museums & Institutions Washington’s National Gallery of Art Will Return a Looted Benin Bronze Cockerel to Nigeria The work once lived on an altar in Benin city, where it honored queen mothers. By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 6, 2021
Museums & Institutions Poland Just Replaced a Top Museum Director With a Drummer and Painter in a Move Critics Say Is Politically Motivated Protesters, fearing a far-right turn in the nation's public institutions, gathered today at the museum. By Dorian Batycka, Dec 3, 2021
Museums & Institutions Andy Warhol’s Surging Popularity in China Gets Another Boost With a Touring Show in Shanghai and Beijing Co-organized by the Warhol Museum, “Becoming Andy Warhol" marks the first time some works were seen outside of Pittsburgh. By Vivienne Chow, Dec 2, 2021
Museums & Institutions More Than 20 Years After an Ohio Museum Forced a Native Group to Buy Its Own Artifacts Back, It Has Repaid the Tribe The tribe rushed to buy back its own artifacts in 1996, and has now finally been reimbursed. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 30, 2021
Museums & Institutions The Met Just Received $125 Million—the Largest Gift in Its History—to Build Its Long-Awaited Modern Wing Expansion The gift comes from financier Oscar Tang and his wife Agnes Hsu-Tang. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 30, 2021
Museums & Institutions Fotografiska Aims to Become the Largest Private Museum in the World by 2023, Unveiling Plans to Expand to Miami, Shanghai, and Berlin Its Miami location will be next-door to the Rubell Museum. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Nov 26, 2021
