The steadfast historian leaves the institution after 38 years, the past couple of them marred by political tensions with the Trump administration
‘It was a calling’: 25 years after the 11 September attacks, Joel Meyerowitz reflects on his photos of Ground Zero
The legendary photographer spent nine months documenting the cleanup in Lower Manhattan to complete his series “Aftermath”, which is currently on view at Florida’s NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
Two Renoir paintings worth €9m stolen from Renoir Museum in France
Thieves took two further works but dropped them as they fled, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer says
Hungary’s new government scraps National Gallery plans
The planned SANAA-designed museum for Budapest’s City Park has been cancelled, leaving the future home of Hungary’s national collection undecided
England’s Pitt Rivers Museum announces its largest repatriation of human remains
Institution at the University of Oxford will return 39 pieces of remains, primarily skulls, to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent by the end of the year
Greece rejects Parthenon marbles loan request from Frankfurt due to British Museum involvement, reports say
The British Museum has agreed to loan two marble fragments to the Liebieghaus exhibition, which recreates the east pediment of the temple for the first time
Can triennials reduce their environmental impact? St Louis’s Counterpublic hopes to be a model
The event’s organisers are working to reduce the ecological footprint of temporary exhibitions and will share findings from their 2026 edition in a climate impact report
Argentina court orders return of Nazi-looted Old Master portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir
Lawyers for the heir, a descendant of the Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker, say the outcome is ‘unprecedented’ as it involves the recovery of a work held in private hands through […]
Come to the British Library’s Agatha Christie show—if you dare
London exhibition will examine the life of the crime fiction writer and how she created her most famous characters
Museum acquisitions round-up: an unsettling French mask and a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
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