Vancouver's Chinese Canadian Museum (CCM) is readying to launch operations July 1 in a site at 51 East Pender Street.

The federal and Quebec governments have announced more infrastructure funding – some $56 million – to support the expansion of Montreal's Musée d'art contemporain. The expansion project includes improvements to visitor services and enhanced protection for the museum's collection, as well as reorganized interior spaces and modernization.

Jamaican-born mixed media artist Ebony G. Patterson’s “… things come to thrive … in the shedding … in the molting …,” at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, brings more than 400 black, glittering foam vultures together.

The city of Dallas was one of 10 U.S. cities to win the honor, marking its first win since 1970. The city was recognized for its efforts to engage youth in meaningful ways via the Dallas Youth Commission, the Welcoming Strategic Plan, and the Dallas Cultural Plan.

The 45 portraits, cast in bronze, have been installed on the entrance to the newly restored London museum.

More than 500 workers at the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh voted to ratify their first contract after 18 months of negotiations.

The annual gathering organised by the American Law Institute and co-sponsored by the Smithsonian took place recently in Philadelphia.

“Here, in the 18th and early 19th centuries, ships carrying tens of thousands of enslaved Africans deposited their human cargo, a population that would, through unthinkable adversity and creative perseverance, utterly transform what ‘America’ meant, and means. On this spot now, looking a bit like a ship itself, stands the eagerly awaited and long-delayed new International African American Museum.”

The university’s three art institutions—the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler museums—are now free for all visitors.

The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut is foregrounding ocean ecology in its first contemporary art exhibition, with new commissions by American painter Alexis Rockman.

The director of the NPG shows The Art Newspaper one of the new attractions he has introduced during the gallery’s long closure. Nicholas Cullinan thinks these morbidly intimate portraits will fascinate visitors, but his innovation is also a creative use of the available floorspace at his West End domain.

As the Hispanic Society Museum & Library reopens after a six-year renovation—and two-month strike—its leaders are re-imagining its founder's legacy.

Darienne (Dare) Turner has been appointed the Brooklyn Museum’s first-ever full-time curator of Indigenous art. She is currently assistant curator of Indigeous art of the Americas at the Baltimore Museum, and takes up her new post in August.

The display also offers an opportunity for new analysis and research into the remarkable Byzantine icons.

This transformational project will bring a premier museum experience and new community spaces to all in Westchester and the NYC metropolitan area.

On June 8, 2023, the Toronto Holocaust Museum opened its doors to the public, unveiling the city’s only museum dedicated to Holocaust remembrance and education. The new museum was established to educate visitors about the atrocities of the past, while revealing connections between the Holocaust, world events, and our present-day society.

In October 2023, the museum will launch “Gold Mining to Gold Medals: A Century of Skiing in Rossland.” The Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre has raised the required initial funds to begin the first stage of its Phase Two Renewal project.

In the post-pandemic era and straitened financial times, regional galleries and museums in the UK that have been free to enter are now asking visitors to pay admission charges, a move that is polarising cultural commentators.

Designed by Koko Architecture + Design, the firm behind Greenwich Village’s Children’s Aid Society playgrounds and the Robot Garage in Detroit, the new facility, dubbed 81st Street Studio, will be a science and art play space for children between the ages of three and 11.

According to the art collector data company Larry's List, the burgeoning private museums sector now comprises 446 institutions worldwide, 111 of which have opened since 2016.

Brett Littman, who since 2018 has served as the director of the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, New York, has left his role at the institution. No reason was given for Littman’s departure.

Jean-François Bélisle is well recognized in the visual art world for curating contemporary exhibitions and was the founding director of the Arsenal art foundation in Montreal and Toronto.

It’s not only about the art anymore: Today’s museum leaders must increasingly confront staff revolts and calls to return looted art while navigating labor unrest and social justice controversies.

The new study is the result of two years’ work by researchers from Germany and Cameroon and was supported by curators at 45 German museums. Cameroon has set up a restitutions committee to work with the museums.

The museum has been under pressure for more than a decade to break off its affiliation with the oil and gas corporation.

In research and evaluation, an open-ended, story-based, and inclusive alternative to traditional surveys and focus groups is gaining traction.

The auction house will make the Brutalist icon on Madison Avenue its flagship in 2025.

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has approved a new deal in the Purdue Pharma settlement, ordering the Sackler family to pay $6 billion—about half of their estimated wealth—to combat the opioid crisis.

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) new open-access storage building in east London has just been completed, providing a home for over 250,000 objects. The process of transferring the collection was described by a museum spokesperson as “the UK’s biggest house move.”

The new exhibition Resolutions for the Antarctic: International Stations & the Antarctic Data Space documents the impact of polar explorers on the continent and asks probing questions about climate change, science and global diplomacy.

When smoke from wildfires in Canada turned the New York City air orange, architect Andrés Jaque noted an eerie parallel between the smoky sky and an installation that he premiered at the latest Venice Design Biennale.

Architect Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower was demolished last year, but 23 of its distinctive pods were preserved.

Writer and museum consultant András Szántó speaks with ARTnews about aspirational architecture, museums’ new trend toward humility, and how the art world can help guide society at large.

More than three years after it closed, the museum in upstate New York has made major upgrades across its campus and added more than 500 works to its collection.

Calgary city officials are looking to bring together three major revitalization projects in the city’s downtown core as part of ongoing efforts to bring vibrancy back to the area.

The city’s plan is to bundle together the Arts Commons Transformation, improvements to Stephen Avenue and upgrades to Olympic Plaza in what a city report describes as an aligned investment approach.

Vancouver’s “Platforms,” a public art program, is featuring all Indigenous artists for the first time in its history. Celebrating National Indigenous History Month, the city launched the 2023 program June 8 at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

Five Canadian artists, representing all corners of the vast land, learned today that they are at least $25,000 richer, with a bigger payday possibly to come in autumn. The five were shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award, which offers total prize money of  $300,000, among the richest rewards available to artists.

The monarch will likely face calls for the return of priceless objects that were seized by British military forces during 19th-century operations.

Watch the Instagram sensation get chased across five cities in four countries in this new documentary film.

A new publication tries hard to reinvent Kusama as a champion of racial equity despite her troubling record of anti-Black statements.

“White Balls on Walls” shows how the staff of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum have tried to implement change amid a shifting social landscape.

A group of technology and human rights organizations are calling on the federal government to take immediate action to address concerns around artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology.

With more hybrid workers and new office needs, firms like Zaha Hadid Architects are turning to artificial intelligence for solutions.

“Toronto’s first and only Holocaust Museum, located at the Prosserman Jewish Community Centre, is now open to the public. As humanity at large hurtles towards an age without survivors, and the need for Holocaust education morphs into insidious necessity, the immovable weight of duty rests heavy on the hearts of Jews the world over.”

The company is scrambling to recover $93 million worth of donations to repay creditors.

Select pieces that explore technology's "power for destruction and good" remain on private display in the Mission District's Salesforce Tower.