Art
In response to environmental groups demanding science and natural history museums cut funding connected with the fossil fuel industry, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences says it will.
News
The question of whether or not art museums should be free tends to get people riled up.
Art
Housed in one of the long-abandoned brick buildings of the former United States Lighthouse Service Depot on Staten Island, the National Lighthouse Museum is now officially open.
Opinion
Given the Studio Museum’s unique position in the city’s arts and culture landscape, this rebuild, the first since the museum took up residence in its current space in 1982, seems to indeed be a cause to celebrate.
In Brief
Visitors to the Studio Museum in Harlem have long been struck by its small size.
News
The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, the main modern and contemporary art museum in Spain's third city, grossly inflated its attendance figures, overpaid for acquisitions, and made a number of other suspicious moves during the 10-year tenure of its former director, Consuelo Ciscar.
News
The largest public collection of modern Southeast Asian art is opening this October, and the institution that will house it just announced a collaborative exhibition with the Centre Pompidou in 2016.
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News
A group of 54 artists and other art worlders has signed a letter asking Mayor de Blasio and Meenakshi Srinivasan, chair of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, to deny the Frick Collection's proposed plan for expansion.
News
The Museum of Biblical Art's (MOBIA) trustees announced today that when its current exhibition of Donatello sculptures closes in June, the museum will shut down.
News
Last Friday, a judge in the Macedonian capital Skopje convicted six employees at the state-owned Museum of Macedonia of stealing objects from the institution’s collection and selling them abroad through an organized crime ring, AFP reported.
News
What are museums hiding in their pasts and inside their collection storage vaults? Some of those secrets (or just lesser-known facts) are being shared by institutions around the world this Museum Week through the hashtag #secretsmw.
In Brief
Most museums across the US and Europe have had a difficult time handling the selfie onslaught.