Museum News

A worker had taken a section cut from one of the massive stones during restoration work in 1958, and held it in the United States for decades before returning it to England.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s exhibition about the death camp depicts, in ways large and small, the horrors of the Holocaust.

The museum’s director, Klaus Biesenbach, hires Ms. Locks, an organizer of the 2017 Whitney Biennial; he has no plans to name a chief curator.

Built for $162 million, the museum features flashy interactive exhibits but also grapples with intelligence failures, out-of-control surveillance and torture.

An early advocate of Abstract Expressionism, Mr. Heller sold or donated many major works. He also wrote about art and advised artists and museums.

Deconstructing the party of the year, including how much it costs, who hosts and what you have to wear.

A survivor of the Nazi concentration camp toured a new exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Heritage that depicts the horrors of Auschwitz.

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

A claim for the Pissarro painting had been filed by the American heirs of a German Jew who sold it in 1939 as she fled the Nazis.

A gigantic painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau travels from Paris to New York for a sale at Sotheby’s.

Warren B. Kanders, of the Safariland Group, has been the target of protests since tear gas his company makes was said to have been used at the border.

The museum continues its shift toward new art with a free exhibition that will extend past its Park Avenue headquarters.

A purloined 1615 Geneva Bible was traced last year to a Dutch museum. The authorities say it had been taken as part of a long-running theft scheme by an archivist and a rare book dealer.

While there is no specific timeline for building in the United Arab Emirates, the director told a news outlet that construction would begin “soon.”

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

An immersive show opening at the museum in February will feature new works by the performance artist.

The new Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara explores the long and complex relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

A collector, David Weingarten, is donating 3,069 shrunken landmarks to the museum.

Mmuseumm (yes, the spelling is unusual) displays collections of small objects in a very small space. Its curator says they tell important stories.

Mrs. Wrightsman, who had no formal training, became a connoisseur of 18th-century French art and a significant donor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.