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UK Taxpayers to Pay $1 Billion to InsureBayeux Tapestry for British Museum Loan

12/30/2025

UK Taxpayers to Pay $1 Billion to InsureBayeux Tapestry for British Museum Loan The UK Treasury will rely on the taxpayer-backed Government Indemnity Scheme to insure theBayeux Tapestryfor an estimated £800 million ($1 billion) while it is on loan from …

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Imperial War Museum Faces Criticism for Medal Gallery Closure

12/30/2025

The Imperial War Museum (IWM) is facing criticism from Lord Ashcroft after the institution closed its long-running gallery of Victoria Cross medals and launched a new virtual tour focused on LGBTQ+ histories. The upper floor of the museum previously housed …

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China Launches Probe Into Alleged Art-Theft Scheme at Nanjing Museum

12/24/2025

Chinese officials have opened multiple investigations into allegations that staff at the state-run Nanjing Museum secretly removed cultural treasures from the collection and sold them on the open market—claims that have gone viral on social media and drawn comparisons to …

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UK Museum Calls for Santa to Be ‘Decolonized'

12/22/2025

The HeadlinesOASIS OF ART. Located near the cracked, dried remnants of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, the I.V. Savitsky State Art Museum (aka the Nukus Museum) in Nukus is a hidden treasure. As the Art Newspaper reports, it houses nearly …

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Las Vegas Museum of Art Reveals Plans for Francis Kéré–Designed Building

12/20/2025

Las Vegas Museum of Art Reveals Plans for Francis Kéré–Designed Building TheLas Vegas Museum of Arton December 17 released updated renderings of its future home, designed by the office of Pritzker Prize–winning Burkinabé architectDiébédo Francis Kéré. New York–basedarchitecturefirm Skidmore, Owings …

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Check Out the New Francis Kéré-Designed Las Vegas Museum of Art

12/20/2025

The Last Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) has released renderings of its new museum building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré. Kéré’s design for the 60,000-square-foot building is inspired by the nearby Mojave Desert, the surrounding Red Rock Mountains, …

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National Museum of Natural History Acquires Dinosaur Skull

12/19/2025

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has added a new, rare fossil to its collection: a dome-shaped skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, a type of dinosaur that lived about 67 million years ago. The fossil was donated to the museum …

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High Museum Adds 361 Works to Collection, Including Jacob Lawrence Watercolor

12/19/2025

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has added 361 artworks and objects to its collection in 2025. The acquisitions are part of a strategic plan to grow its holdings, now numbering over 20,000 objects, ahead of the museum’s centennial …

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Texas State University Cancels Black History 101 Mobile Museum Visit

12/19/2025

A decision by the Texas State University (TXST) to cancel an appearance of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum at one of its campuses, scheduled for 2026 Black History Month, has prompted a First Amendment challenge from the American Civil …

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Guggenheim Bilbao Scraps Urdaibai Expansion After Environmental Backlash

12/18/2025

Plans to build a €100 million satellite of the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain’s protected Urdaibai biosphere reserve have been abandoned after nearly two decades of legal challenges and escalating local opposition. The museum’s board of trustees — which includes the …

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Art Institute of Chicago Acquires Painting by Kay WalkingStick

12/17/2025

The Art Institute of Chicago announced the top lots among its more than 1,000 acquisitions in 2025, with special notice going to key paintings and other holdings now in the collections of departments including prints and drawings, photography and media, …

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Malba Acquires Daros Latinamerica Collection in Major Expansion

12/16/2025

The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires is set to nearly double the size of its holdings following founder Eduardo F. Costantini’s acquisition of the Daros Latinamerica Collection, a trove of 1,233 works by 117 artists created primarily …

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The National Museum of Asian Art Returns Three Sculptures to Cambodia

12/15/2025

On December 11, the National Museum of Asian Art, an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., announced it was returning three Khmer period sculptures in its collection to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The return was made after …

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Maria Balshaw to Depart as Director of London’s Tate

12/13/2025

Maria Balshaw to Depart as Director of London’s Tate Maria Balshaw, who has led London’sTategroup of museums since 2017, has announced that she will step down as director in spring 2026. Balshaw, who previously served as director of the Manchester …

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