Museums

The Louvre doesn’t want you to photograph the Mona Lisa or pose for selfies in front of its glass pyramid. That’s one takeaway from the museum’s “A Look at the Louvre,” a video series it’s created alongside Pinterest, as part of a…

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has announced the Victoria P. Sant Fund for Women Artists, which will help grow the museum’s collection of historic through contemporary artworks from female-identifying artists.…

Next February, roughly 28 of the 35 paintings attributed to Johannes Vermeer will go on view at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum in a presentation that’s being billed as the most extensive survey of the Dutch Golden Age artist ever staged.…

At a governmental state of affairs hearing held on October 28 in Taiwan, one legislator revealed that three historic ceramic pieces from Taipei’s National Palace Museum’s (NPM’s) vast collection of Chinese artifacts have been…

Don’t worry—the giant blue whale is safe. But there was a bit of a scare at New York’s American Museum of Natural History in the wee hours of the morning, when the FDNY was called to the scene to extinguish a small blaze in a…

As arguments between the U.K. and Greece rage over who rightfully owns the Parthenon Marbles, the Institute of Digital Archaeology (IDA) has come up with a solution for the meantime: a near-perfect replica—made by a robot—which…

The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. announced today that the joint team of Selldorf Architects and Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have won a federal contract to lead the institution’s first interior and…

Climate activists turned up the heat this year, decrying the global environmental crisis by targeting internationally renowned art museums’ greatest treasures—and leading many onlookers to wonder how their actions actually connect…

An attempted attack on a painting at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris on Thursday was intercepted by security, the museum has confirmed to Artnet News.  This news comes shortly after France’s culture minister, Rima Abdul Malak, called…

On a blustery December evening, 13 years ago, Mera Rubell swept through the nation’s capital on a whirlwind tour. Over the course of 36 straight hours, the Miami art collector visited 36 artist studios in Washington, D.C.,…