'Mandela: Struggle for Freedom,' a new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum, tells the story of the fight to end apartheid in South Africa.

Yvonne Tang brings 20 years of experience to the role, having worked on over 80 projects around the world.

“We have been preparing for this day for more than 20 years, but this museum has actually been more than 400 years in the making,” says President and CEO H. Beecher Hicks III.

NYBG hopes to add a new “infinity room” in summer if Covid-19 restrictions lift.

For a quarter of a century, The Historic New Orleans Collection has convened an annual symposium to speak to themes of historical interest. This year, we pause to listen.

The 25th Williams Research Center Symposium celebrates the voices of Black activists from the era of Reconstruction, as featured in three new THNOC publications. The protagonists of these books—journalists, poets, politicians, educators, and ardent champions of civil rights—have gone too long unheralded. Through their words, recovered from the archives, we will explore the origins and legacies of Black activism in New Orleans. The conversation unfolds in English and in French, in classrooms and newsrooms, and in the streets.

Elizabeth Dowdeswell, lieutenant-governor of Ontario, Canada, kicked off a celebration of Black History Month with an empowering discussion on the role of Black leadership and systemic barriers in the progression of arts and culture sectors in Canada.

A recent New York Times article featured classical performance ensembles that have advocated for and embodied diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility since their inception. Here are five major examples from the United States and Europe.

The pieces in the Museum of Latin American Art’s new “Herland: Women Artists from the MOLAA Collection” exhibit deal with topics such as race, social injustice, and female empowerment. And it’s coming to viewers at home in 3D.

Last month, in a historic and overdue move, the first Indigenous leader was appointed to head a Canadian public art institution. John G. Hampton, who is Chickasaw, was appointed executive director and CEO of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, a prominent museum in Regina, bringing new and old perspectives to the fore, including various innovative curatorial, educational, and residency opportunities. 

In 2018, staffers at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio prepared for the arrival of Fireflies on the Water, one of Yayoi Kusama’s famed “Infinity Rooms,” which was en route from the Whitney Museum in New York. One aspect of the piece was raised concerns: non-ADA compliant ramps and platforms. What was the museum to do?

Museums and their stakeholders can start to address and fix systemic issues by implementing three basic transparency measures that put ethics into action.

Three prominent archives of rare materials that document the history of Black film land in Los Angeles.

This place of worship will bring together Islam, Judaism and Christianity when it opens its doors next year

While many museums around the country have resumed operations, those in Los Angeles have remained shut since March.

Photographs by Edward Burtynsky accompany Bill Gates' manifesto on climate change.

The Melbourne museum of screen culture reopens with a contactless device that allows visitors to curate virtual collections

Museums are hopeful about new online revenue streams.