Museum News

Racist vandalism at the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a reminder of the long battle for the soul of this country.

New layers to the art of Betty Parsons; the painter Peter Shear gets his first New York solo show; and Leidy Churchman responds to the threat of the internet.

Our guide to new art shows, and some that will be closing soon.

The new museum dedicated to Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, in Springfield, Mass., left out some controversial political cartoons.

Staffers had demanded better working conditions. The museum disputes the accusations.

The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene, a downtown cultural mainstay, will bring together an array of arts groups for a two-day festival.

Karen Bornarth of Hot Bread Kitchen will lead a hands-on class at the Museum of Food and Drink in Brooklyn.

A new courtyard and foyer are designed to help visitors avoid the maze of corridors and displays. Also in the works: a large, temporary exhibition space.

The couple met at a fund-raising event for the Morgan Library.

Our guide to new art shows, and some that will be closing soon.

This ever-expanding museum of contemporary art gives populism a good name. Every visitor can find something to like — and probably dislike, too.

A decade after it began, an outdoor green space for the museum’s small visitors is finally ready, and it arrives with an impressive design pedigree.

The popular Swiss museum has tapped architect Peter Zumthor to design an extension for education, events and more exhibition space.

Museums from the United States to Australia are mounting shows about this artist in the centennial year of his death.

Kevin Jennings, a former nonprofit leader and Obama official, plans to expand the museum’s reach through virtual and augmented reality.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, a laggard on the Australian museum scene, is promised a hefty grant for a major expansion project.

Daniel H. Weiss will lead and run the museum, and in a sign that fiscal responsibility trumps artistic control, the next director will report to him.

The Broad is mixing it up, adding traveling surveys by major artists to its blue-chip collection.

An ambitious expansion proposal for this Australian city’s premier art museum has been thwarted by budget shortfalls, competing visions and bitter controversy.

A World War II-era Navy sub has been mired in the Hackensack River for years. Developers want it moved, but solutions are scant.