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The Ministry of Culture in Ukraine has stated that Russian attacks on the country have damaged or destroyed 2,625 cultural infrastructure facilities and 1,990 cultural heritage sites as of the end of July 2026 "Russia is waging a systematic war against Uk

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has named Anna Katz as its Doris and Donald Fisher Senior Curator and Head of Painting and Sculpture. She will be the first person to occupy the role since it was endowed by the Fisher family in honor of Doris and Do

In the wake of the Portland Art Museum having completed a comprehensive campus expansion project in 2025, the institution, one of the oldest art museums in the United States, announced on Tuesday that it has appointed a new director: Michael J. Anderson.

Last Friday, the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) announced that it would be granting staffers at its V&A East Storehouse the changes they had requested regarding the institution's break policy, marking the latest development in an ongoing struggle between

The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) laid off eleven employees on August 5 in what it described as an effort to remain sustainable in the wake of rising costs and uncertain funding. The cuts affected multiple departments-including exhibitions, development,

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York reports a steep drop in enrollment since 2019 and the largest budget deficit in the school's eighty-year history. Artnews notes that enrollment has declined by 34 percent over the past seven years. The school's

On August 13, the New York-based Joan Mitchell Foundation named fifteen recipients of its 2026 Joan Mitchell Fellowship. Each will receive an unrestricted $60,000 grant, disbursed over a five-year period. The fellows-who variously work in the fields of pa

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town has announced Elvira Dyagani Ose as its new artistic director. Dyangani Ose, who is currently the artistic director of the second Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial, is known for championin

Steven Nelson, the former head of the National Gallery of Art's Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts has accused the museum of "soft censorship," regarding its hushed relocation of a symposium last year titled "Color Lines Across the United States and

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati asked senior British culture official Chris Bryant to get on his knees and "propose" that France loan the Bayeux Tapestry to England, the New York Times reports. Dati reportedly made the request at a May 2025 meeting b