Museums A Major Pandemic Spike Is Forcing Museums to Close—Again. But This Time, It’s Because Staffers Are Out Sick Several Smithsonian museums and the Wadsworth Atheneum are among institutions that have had to close temporarily. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 4, 2022
Museums Miriam Cahn Wants to Buy Her Art Back From a Zurich Museum to Protest Its Display of a Nazi Arms Dealer’s Collection Cahn is offering to buy her work back at the price the Kunsthaus Zurich originally paid. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Dec 23, 2021
Museums After Nearly Going Under, New York’s South Street Seaport Museum Just Secured $50 Million in Funding. But Not Everyone Is on Board Most of the funding comes from the Howard Hughes Corporation on the condition that it build a high-rise in the historic district. By Brian Boucher, Dec 22, 2021
Museums With Omicron on the Rise, Museums on America’s Eastern Seaboard Are Shuttering or Reducing Admittance as Protective Measures Whether as a preventative measure or in response to increased numbers of positive tests, museums are taking action. By Brian Boucher, Dec 21, 2021
Museums A Curator Wants to Put Confederate Monuments in a Contemporary Art Museum. First, He Has to Figure Out Who They Belong To LAXART director Hamza Walker is organizing the show along with artist Kara Walker. Or at least he's trying to. By Brian Boucher, Dec 20, 2021
Museums Museums in London, Denmark, and the Netherlands Shut Down as Omicron Increases Its Hold in Europe New lockdown measures and virus outbreaks are putting pressure on the sector. By Amah-Rose Abrams, Dec 20, 2021
Museums The Bronx Museum of the Arts Is Celebrating 50 Years by Announcing a $21 Million Capital Campaign and Major Renovation Leaders say the transformed museum will further engage the local community. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 16, 2021
Museums 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
