Among the works joining the museum’s collection are paintings by Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley as well as a self-portrait by an artist who worked as a preparator at Lacma for decades.

The project includes the addition of a multi-storey entrance and lobby, and is being supported with state and city funds.

From green buildings to hard-hitting exhibitions, we explore how museums are adapting in the face of the climate crisis.

The Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) has announced an open international contest for its new £16.5 million (CAD $28 million) headquarters. [Deadline: 28 January 2022]

To cap off its 60th anniversary and in time for the festive season, Ayala Foundation had the soft opening of Ayala Museum and Filipinas Heritage Library (FHL) on December 4. Closed for renovation since June 2019, the soft opening offers a glimpse of the newly renovated museum and library with five galleries initially accessible to the public with pre-booked admissions, timed entries, and limited capacity on admissions.

The Cultural Welfare panel took place on Dec 3, 2021 as part of AISC2021 the Annual Symposium of the Italian Association for Canadian Studies, hosted by the University of Bologna, in collaboration with academic and cultural partners in Italy and Canada. Special guests were President Emerita of OCAD University, and Lord Cultural Resources. Thought leader Sara Diamond; distinguished University of Toronto scholar and urban cultural policy expert Daniel Silver; director of the Master in “Digital Marketing and Communication” University of Bologna Business School, Roberto Grandi; art critic, curator, and expert in public art Fabiola Naldi. Hosts: Paolo Granata (University of Toronto) and Martin Stiglio (ARCHI).

The Searchable Museum is a new digital initiative by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) that offers online exhibitions, virtual symposia and digital programmes.

This year, As Equals, CNN's global gender reporting team, has endeavored to resist reactionary reporting. We've slowed right down. Our journalism has sought not just to report or describe what is happening to women and gender non-conforming people around the world, but to explore why various oppressions and inequalities persist — and why, in some cases, they are getting worse.

The Brooklyn Museum has appointed Kimberly Panicek (KP) Trueblood as its next president and chief operating officer, beginning next year. She replaces David Berliner, who has served in the role since 2016 and was previously a trustee.

America's Black Holocaust Museum received $10 million in support of its new physical museum on North Avenue thanks to an anonymous donor through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.

An ongoing Indigenous protest movement is forcing museums across North America to confront a pressing question - who really owns the land on which they stand, and what should they do about it?

So far 25 institutions have contributed 8,000 entries; the plan is to expand it and translate it into several languages.

Perhaps the most pressing topic in the world of art and culture in the United States these days is the question of who will run the country’s museums. Between the financial constraints brought on by the pandemic and urgent matters of social justice, museums are in a tough spot: struggling to stay alive at the same time that they are thrust onto the front lines of current events. And so a panel discussion devoted to the subject at Art Basel Miami Beach on Wednesday—under the title “Re-inventing the Institution? New Museum Leaders”—drew a crowd while offering some hints as to what the future might hold.

Rebranded as MONOVA, the museum is in a much higher profile location near the waterfront.

The opening of the international museum comes as tension rises between Russia and the West.

Among the amenities in the works is an observation space where visitors can watch resident artists at work.

The first art historian to serve as a senator in Ottawa argues for the “essential role” of art and creative expression.

Senator Bovey was finally able to introduce her Bill, Declaration on the Essential Role of Artists and Creative Expression in Canada, last week.  This enactment provides a framework for the Government of Canada’s implementation of the Declaration on the Essential Role of Artists and Creative Expression in Canada, including by requiring the Minister of Canadian Heritage to prepare and implement an action plan to give expression to the Declaration.

The odds of peaceful dialogue between North and South Korea were seemingly shattered last year when Pyongyang blew up a joint liaison office in its border city of Kaesong in protest at what it said was Seoul’s inability to prevent defectors from flying anti-regime propaganda over the border.

Yet despite this, just a few kilometres south east of Kaesong across the Imjin River, which flows from north to south crossing the infamous 38th Parallel, a cultural outpost has been created in the South Korean border city of Paju, which requires a military escort to visit.

Read the newly published interactive report and apply to participate in the EU peer-learning scheme.