Museums In an Expansion, the Rubell Museum Will Bring Its Tastemaking Private Art Collection to Washington, D.C., Next Year The project has been in the works for more than a decade, but is finally nearing completion. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 24, 2021
Museums A Group of Nigerian Artists Have an Offer for the British Museum: Return the Benin Bronzes and We’ll Give You New Ones in Exchange The British Museum has been noncommittal in its stance on repatriating the historic artifacts. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 23, 2021
Museums After Nearly a Decade of Planning, the Academy Museum of Moving Pictures Is Ready for Its Close Up—and It’s Not Hiding Its Flaws The $482 million, 300,000-square-foot facility aims to move away from a singular story of American cinema. Will the public buy it? By Janelle Zara, Sep 22, 2021
Museums Picasso’s Daughter Is Donating Nine Artworks by Her Father to a Paris Museum to Settle a Tax Bill The works will go on view at the museum in the spring of 2022. By Caroline Goldstein, Sep 22, 2021
Museums How Will Berlin’s Embattled Humboldt Forum Deal With Its Imperialist Past? Its New Asian and Ethnological Museums Provide Clues The Humboldt Forum has opened its two most controversial institutions yet. By Quynh Tran, Sep 21, 2021
Museums ‘We Gave Them a Lot of Authority to Guide Us’: How the Native Tribes of Oklahoma Are Helping Shape the New First Americans Museum After languishing for 15 years, the Oklahoma City museum is opening to the public at last. By Sheila Regan, Sep 15, 2021
Museums Klaus Biesenbach Is Heading Back to Berlin to Lead the Newly Reopened Neue Nationalgalerie Museum Meanwhile, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrat, a curatorial duo, will co-lead the Hamburger Bahnhof museum. By Kate Brown, Sep 10, 2021
Museums Accused of Hampering Research, the National 9/11 Museum in New York Will Ease Requirements for Scholars The museum previously reserved the right to review work prior to publication and require edits. By Sarah Cascone, Sep 9, 2021
Museums Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Has Removed Ai Weiwei’s Famous Tiananmen Square Photo From Its Website While It Awaits Government Review The development coincides with news that the long-awaited museum will open on November 12. By Vivienne Chow, Sep 8, 2021
Museums L.A. MOCA Names Johanna Burton Executive Director, Creating a New Position That Splits Duties With Klaus Biesenbach The museum hopes to turn the page on its track record of embattled leadership in recent years. By Taylor Dafoe, Sep 2, 2021
Museums Conservators at the Met Have Discovered a Hidden Composition Under Jacques Louis David’s Portrait of a Famed Chemist David’s original painting of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife depicted the couple as self-indulged nobles rather than liberal leaders of science. By Artnet News, Sep 1, 2021
Museums The Guggenheim Bilbao Just Dropped a Rap Video to Raise Funds to Repair Its Jeff Koons Puppy Sculpture and It’s… Well, Judge for Yourself “It’s the ‘P’ with the ‘U’ with the ‘P’ with the ‘P’ with the ‘Y.’ So please don’t kill my vibe,” goes the song by Bilbao's M.C. Gransan. By Taylor Dafoe, Aug 31, 2021
Museums Dams, Floodgates, and Submarine Doors: Museums Are Spending Millions to Protect Their Art as Sea Levels Rise It isn't only museums near coastlines that are at risk. By Brian Boucher, Aug 31, 2021
Museums One of Uruguay’s Most Prominent Artists Is Funding and Building the Country’s First Contemporary Art Museum The institution will open in January 2022 and will be organized around the artist's personal collection. By Sarah Cascone, Aug 30, 2021
Museums The Smithsonian Institution Is Using a $25 Million Grant to Get Americans Around the Country to Talk About Race Bank of America is sponsoring the project, which is called "Our Shared History." By Zachary Small, Aug 30, 2021
