Museum News

The 100-year-old historian and collector Wan-go H.C. Weng is donating about 200 pieces, with some made as early as the seventh century.

Anthea M. Hartig will begin her role in February, and she will open three exhibitions from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.

Kevin Beasley confronts King Cotton’s legacy in his solo museum show.

Projects supported by this round of grants include work to preserve the “auditory signatures” of historic sites and a timeline of African-American music.

Museum executives said they could not explain why a man pushed over an exhibition case and hurled works by Chinese and Mayan artists to the floor.

Kaywin Feldman of the Minneapolis Institute of Art will take over the Washington museum in March.

After a five-year overhaul, Belgium’s Africa Museum now acknowledges the injustices of colonialism. But it reopens amid a debate about whether some items should be there at all.

A $10 million gift from the Molina family helps Smithsonian expand its Latino representation.

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

Part-time art installers at the Queens museum say they do the same job, but earn far less, than full-time employees at the Museum of Modern Art.

The art critics of The New York Times tell you what rocked their worlds this year: notable art events, works in museums and galleries, emerging artists and how they found beauty in unexpected places.

The Dia Art Foundation will celebrate the acquisition of 155 works by Charlotte Posenenske with a retrospective of her work at Dia:Beacon.

At the Museum at Eldridge Street, rare menorahs from around the world are on display for the holiday.

The Mauritshuis in the Netherlands, working with Google, has created an app that provides a virtual museum filled with all of this artist’s works.

Government officials from Senegal and the Ivory Coast ask for African treasures to be returned.

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

A photo long thought to be one of two known pictures of the artist’s face is actually of his brother Theo, researchers in Amsterdam said.

There’s more to love, with reservations, in the Houston museum’s Drawing Institute and its extraordinary inaugural show of Jasper Johns works.

Johanna Burton, who is currently at the New Museum in New York, will take on the role at the center at Ohio State University in March.

Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia had to look at their collection afresh when they made a move from Brooklyn Heights to the Brooklyn Bridge Park area.