Tag: Museums & Heritage

National Museum Cardiff—Wales’s national cultural institution—is facing potential closure due to funding shortages leading to building deterioration and job cuts. Despite initial concerns, Museum Wales has reassured that discussions are

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has repatriated an ancient Sumerian copper alloy statue from the third millennium BC to authorities in Iraq. The museum acquired the statue

Sylvain Amic, former chair of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, has been appointed as the new chair of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris by French President Emmanuel Macron. Amic,

On the same day that US president Joe Biden called for a tripling of tariffs on imports of some Chinese steel and aluminium, American and Chinese officials gathered for a

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles recently acquired Sophie Frémiet’s 19th-century painting “Portrait of a Woman,” marking the artist’s first work to join a US museum collection. The

The British Museum will be hosting an exhibition this spring titled “Michelangelo: the last decades,” focusing on the final 30 years of the Renaissance master’s life. One of the highlights

Italy has blocked art loans to a Minneapolis museum due to a dispute over an ancient marble statue believed to have been looted near Pompeii. The statue, a Roman copy

The British Museum faced backlash on social media recently due to a controversial post promoting their exhibition on the Roman Army. The post was criticized for being sexist and the

The UBS Art Collection, a renowned corporate art holding with over 30,000 works, has made a significant donation of 166 photographs to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Artist Doug Argue has criticized the Weisman Art Museum (WAM) for not selling a monograph of his art in its bookstore during his recent survey exhibition there, calling it a