Museum News

A show dedicated to the arts of the Swahili Coast, where Africa, South Asia and the Middle East blend, nudges us away from narrow thinking about identity.

The movie “Ocean’s 8” is about a caper that required elaborate planning. Filming it in places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art required elaborate planning, too.

Eike Schmidt, the Uffizi’s director, is rearranging the famed gallery so works can have a dialogue with one another and the public can get up close.

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

The Vienna-based art collective Gelatin has installed four huge fecal sculptures in a Dutch museum. Repulsed? Ask yourself why.

The Guggenheim mines the wide world of the Swiss sculptor — witty and dripping with sex, or looking into the abyss. There’s despair but humaneness, too.

With about 400 Roy Lichtenstein works going to the Whitney Museum and a historic archive to the Smithsonian, the Lichtenstein Foundation begins a long goodbye.

Okwui Enwezor stepped down on Monday from his position as artistic director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich; the museum cited health reasons.

A pigment the painter used in the work is very sensitive to light and has a tendency to turn to a green hue over time, the authors of a technical study say.

Kirk Wallace Johnson’s “The Feather Thief” recounts “the natural history heist of the century.”

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

The building in Costa Mesa, Calif., will give the museum 50 percent more exhibition space.

The Association of Art Museum Directors requested that its members refrain from lending works to the museum after it sold artworks to fund an expansion initiative.

A 200-year-old statue of George Washington in the buff arrived for an exhibition at the Frick Collection. The president of the museum in Italy that own that statue and others now at the Frick did not.

The last painting damaged during a Mafia car bombing that killed five residents in 1993 is returned to Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.

The firing of the top curator in March set rumors swirling. Now MOCA’s director is stepping down after four years. The museum calls it “a mutual decision.”

The exhibition “Marriage of True Minds Remembered” features rarely seen bags designed by Judith Leiber and four new paintings by Gerson Leiber.

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

From Herman Melville to Mae West, pinball machines to a slave ship, Robert Indiana drew his inspiration from American sources, with deeply personal meanings.

At the National Museum of the American Indian, imagiNATIONS emphasizes native innovations in math, science and engineering.