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Museum staff stage a protest as workers voted to go on strike against increasingly deteriorating working conditions and security vulnerabilities at Louvre Museum in Paris, France on December 15, 2025. Mohamad Salaheldin Abdelg Alsayed/Anadolu via Getty Images The world’s most-visited museum, it seems, cannot catch a break lately. Unionized staff at Paris’s Louvre Museum voted …

Two Days Into Walkout, Louvre Staff Unions Vote to Continue Strike Read More »

A view of the Texas State University Old Main building. Wikimedia Commons A decision by the Texas State University (TXST) to cancel an appearance of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum at one of its campuses, scheduled for 2026 Black History Month, has prompted a First Amendment challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union of …

Texas State University Cancels Black History 101 Mobile Museum Visit, Prompting ACLU Challenge Read More »

The British Museum. Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images The British Museum is sending some of its prized art and artifacts on long-term loan to countries that the British Empire previously colonized. While those nations have long called for the repatriation of objects they consider stolen, the institution may be hoping to blunt some of …

Can the British Museum Lend Its Way Out of Criticisms Over Its Colonial Holdings? Read More »

21 June 2018, Hanover, Germany: Theaster Gates, American artist, faces his work “The Kiss” at the Sprengel Museum. In his four-part exhibition project “Black Madonna”, the American artist and recipient of the Kurt Schwitters Prize deals with the history and portrayal of African-Americans. Photo: Holger Hollemann/dpa (Photo by Holger Hollemann/picture alliance via Getty Images) picture …

Theaster Gates Tapped for Obama Presidential Center Installation Celebrating Ebony and Jet Image Archives Read More »

Paddy Johnson. E. Brady Robinson The art world may not be the most data-informed industry, but there are regular reports on the art market, such as the UBS Art Basel Market Report, which surveys auction houses, galleries, and fairs; UBS collector surveys; and the Artnet Intelligence Report, which analyzes that company’s proprietary auction data. If …

What Does This Career Coach’s New Survey of 1,000 Artists Tell Us? They Are Struggling But Somehow Hopeful Read More »

The new Colosseo-Fori Imperiali station on Metro Line C in Rome. Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Images Construction projects in cities that have been inhabited for thousands of years often run into special challenges as work crews come upon ancient artifacts, and suddenly, what was a construction site becomes an archaeological dig. Officials in Rome …

Rome Has Two New Metro Stations That Offer Underground Mini-Museums, With More On the Way Read More »

Kay WalkingStick, The Silence of Glacier, 2013. Courtesy Art Institute of Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago announced the top lots among its more than 1,000 acquisitions in 2025, with special notice going to key paintings and other holdings now in the collections of departments including prints and drawings, photography and media, textiles, and architecture …

Art Institute of Chicago’s 2025 Acquisitions Include a Painting by Kay WalkingStick and a 17th-Century South Asian Textile Read More »

This areal picture shows celebrations during the reopenning ceremony of the National Museum housed at the historic Red Castle (As-Saraya al-Hamra) in the Libyan capital Tripoli on December 12, 2025. (Photo by Mahmud Turkia / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Libya’s National Museum, known as As-Saraya Al-Hamra or the Red Castle Museum, …

Libya’s National Museum Reopens After 14 Years Read More »

Ava DuVernay (left) and David Oyelowo. Photo JC Olivera/Apple TV+ via Getty Images David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay are reuniting for the new film, “Heist of Benin,” more than a decade after their Academy Award-winning film “Selma.” Oyelowo will star in the film, which is set in modern-day London and described as “a thriller that intertwines art, love …

David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay Team Up for New Art Thriller, ‘Heist of Benin’ Read More »

Officials with two of the repatriated sculptures at a handover ceremony with the Thai Consulate. Courtesy Asian Art Museum After years of research revealed they had been illegally removed in the 1960s, four ancient bronze sculptures were transferred from San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum to their original home in Thailand as a result of an …

San Francisco Asian Art Museum Returns Stolen Ancient Sculptures to Thailand Read More »