Big changes are coming to the Olana State Historic Site, the 150-year-old house museum and surrounding landscape in Greenport, New York, once home to the Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. The estate will undergo major construction over the next two years courtesy of a $25m investment from state and private funding, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced on 13 December.

The most recent edition of Art Toronto, Canada’s biggest commercial art fair (27-30 October), included an unexpected exhibitor, the Portrait Gallery of Canada, whose stand displayed a wide variety of colourful headwear. Though it is still primarily an online entity, and has been since 2020, the gallery is hoping to set up shop in or near Ottawa in the not-too-distant future.

The One intends to honour this foundational street in the design of its building and surrounding area. As part of the planning for The One, Mizrahi Developments worked with Lord Cultural Resources, a global firm specializing in commemorating cultural capital. The historic storefront of the William Luke Building, which is located south of Bloor Street on the west side, is being restored by Mizrahi and incorporated into the design of the tower. Constructed in 1884, it is representative of the craftsmanship of Toronto’s late 19th century commercial buildings. In the windows of this historic storefront will be an image printed onto the glass of the east side of Yonge Street circa 1929, providing pedestrians a view of how the street once looked. Working with Mizrahi Developments for The One development, Lord Cultural Resources developed interpretive elements that reveal the heritage and contribute to the placemaking of one of Toronto’s most historic and iconic junctions, Bloor-Yonge.

This video showcases some of the work that the Lincoln Museum and Cultural Centre is doing to share and tell the stories of the communities that define who we are. Listen to Lord thought leader, Tim Johnson and Lord founder, Gail Lord talk about the new project and the achievement of the town in the creation of the new site.

Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson is getting a museum and learning center included in its development, thanks to a $5 million gift to Montclair State University from alumnus and Paterson native Chuck Muth of the Class of 1977 and his wife, Laura Muth, according to a Monday announcement from Montclair President Jonathan Koppell.

The Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of History is pleased to welcome Caroline Dromaguet as the Museum's CEO.

Jocelyn Piirainen is bringing an Inuk voice to the way the National Gallery of Canada acquires and exhibits Inuit and Indigenous artwork. The arts scholar and former Cambridge Bay resident was appointed in early November to the role of associate curator for the gallery.

Millions of fossils fill the archival drawers at La Brea Tar Pits. For paleobotanist Dr. Regan Dunn, they provide clues that help her understand the interplay between climate, plants and animals. “How animals evolve is a factor of the environment that they live in,” Dunn said. “And most of the time, that has to do with plants and the plant cover.”

Ayala Foundation/Ayala Museum had collaborated with Museo del Prado on the Zobel: The Future of the Past exhibition. The exhibition is curated by Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art at the University of Harvard, and Manuel Fontán del Junco, director of Museums and Exhibitions at Fundación Juan March, both closely connected to the artist in professional and institutional terms. How can we appreciate the work of the great masters without being mere passive receptors of their appeal? How do we submerge ourselves in the art of the past without renouncing our commitment to the modern and contemporary avant-gardes?

There has been much discussion in recent years about diversity in the art world. But statistics show that the perception of progress is largely a myth.

A national museum dedicated to the RCMP should celebrate the police force’s “courageous contributions” to Canada while “telling even the most difficult stories” about its treatment of minority groups, a new report says.

Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century.

Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh dine with Superman in Edward Hopper’s Nighthawk in one of countless paintings at the Mr. Brainwash Art Museum, which opens December 18 at the former Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.

After more than 200 years at the British Museum, the Parthenon Marbles may soon return home to Greece, a move which would resolve one of the long-running disputes in the global museum sector.

The National Museum of the American Indian has been working with the Mi’kmaw Nation for the past two decades to help heal that gap and bring the Mi’kmaw peoples’ objects in the NMAI collection back to share with their communities. Now that goal is becoming a reality, as the Mi’kmaw’s items are destined for the new Mi’kmawey Debert Cultural Centre (MDCC) being built in central Nova Scotia.

In September 2022, the Museum of Modern Art announced that it would be selling upwards of $70 million in artworks from the William Paley collection to invest in expanding its digital reach. The shift toward digital engagement at museums accelerated greatly during the pandemic, sparking a sea change in priorities and perspectives among museums, the art and cultural sector, and the broader public.

The Museum of No Spectators has recently been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Awards Honorable Mention by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Alejandro Aravena, the Pritzker Prize laureate who oversaw the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale as its artistic director, and his firm Elemental secured the commission for the ambitious Art Mill Museum in 2017, beating proposals from nearly 500 practices for the project that will convert a historic waterfront flour mill in Doha, Qatar, into a world-class museum.

In the exhibition “Search History” at the Maxxi National Museum in Rome, the architecture and art studio Space Popular examines the theoretical work of Aldo Rossi, among the most influential Italian architects of the 20th century.

It’s going to be a tight squeeze in the National History Museum (NHM) next Spring when the London institution welcomes its biggest star exhibit: the cast of a Titanosaur, one of the largest known dinosaurs.

An agreement between the school board and gallery was worked out earlier this year. The paintings include Casson’s “Rain in the Cloche Hills” and “Mukeg East of Bird’s Creek,” William Arthur Winter’s “Pink Fences,” Sir Edmund Wyly Grier’s “J.C. Harstone, Portrait of the First Principal of LCVI,” George Agnew Reid’s “The Pasture Stream” and “The Community” and Florence Wyle’s “Penelope.”

Toronto-born artist Benjamin Von Wong and his team have worked tirelessly on this art installation, which is aimed at showcasing the effects of climate change on our ecosystems — the loss of biodiversity due to a warming planet.

Google has released its 2022 Year in Search, an annual round-up of what people searched for on its platform. The myriad findings offer a kaleidoscopic window into human thought and behavior as much as some of the year’s major events.

In celebration of the 170th anniversary of Vincent van Gogh’s birth, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a deep dive into the Post-Impressionist artist’s depictions of towering cypress trees in the south of France—one of his most memorable subjects.

The ancient top, cultural phenomenon Masters of the Universe, and beloved Lite-Brite have been inducted today into the National Toy Hall of Fame. The honorees, unveiled during a special ceremony at The Strong National Museum of Play, were chosen from a field of 12 finalists that also included bingo, Breyer Horses, Catan, Nerf, piñata, Phase 10, Pound Puppies, Rack-O, and Spirograph.

New additions to the mysterious Nazca Lines have been identified by scientists from Japan's Yagamata University through the use of aerial drone footage and artificial intelligence.

Sydney Jewish Museum recently launched Reverberations: A Future of Memory, its first AI (Artificial Intelligence)-powered exhibition sharing Holocaust survivor stories.

Study on socially responsible augmented reality for human rights museums receives NSF grant.

This is the year that the AI generator DALL-E took the world by storm with its ability to conjure fantastical visions in seconds with nothing but a written prompt. It seems fitting, therefore, that the application is closing out the year with its institutional debut at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida—its name was, after all, partly inspired by the eccentric Spanish painter.

In July 2021, a portrait of a woman with frumpy hair, purple lipstick and a mole on her right cheek entered the collections of Miami’s Institute of Contemporary Art. The work was not a centuries-old oil on canvas. It did not once hang on a wall. The artwork was a nonfungible token, or NFT.