April 24, 2020 • Myriam Ben Salah Named Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Renaissance Society
March 10, 2020 • Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery of Art Appoints New Dean of Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
February 19, 2020 • England's Arts Organizations Face Funding Cuts Following "Disappointing" Diversity Report
February 14, 2020 • University of Texas at Austin Receives $10 Million for Blanton Museum and Public Art
February 4, 2020 • Artistic Freedom at Nashville Art School Threatened by Merger with Christian University
January 22, 2020 • Amanda de la Garza Tapped to Lead Mexico City's University Museum of Contemporary Art
January 17, 2020 • NEA Awards $27.3M to Projects in All Fifty States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico
January 16, 2020 • National Endowment for the Humanities Awards $30.9 Million to 188 Humanities Projects
December 19, 2019 • Clark Art Institute Names Caroline Fowler Head of Its Research and Academic Program
November 26, 2019 • Columbia University Appoints Samantha Rippner Associate Director of Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies
November 14, 2019 • Virginia Commonwealth University's ICA Announces Research Fellows and Staff Promotions
November 12, 2019 • London's Institute for International Visual Arts Names Sepake Angiama Artistic Director
November 7, 2019 • Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts to Launch Triennial on Art and Technology in January
November 4, 2019 • Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl to Depart New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs
November 1, 2019 • Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency Names Shannon R. Stratton Executive Director
October 25, 2019 • Nearly Three-Hundred Artists and Academics Call for Boycott of Turkish Cultural Institutions
October 23, 2019 • Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Awards $8.4 Million to Philadelphia's Cultural Sector
October 21, 2019 • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Receives Historic Bequest of African American Art
October 14, 2019 • Arts Professionals Demand MoMA Board Member Larry Fink Divest from Private Prisons
October 11, 2019 • ArtCenter College of Design Honors Doug Aitken, Sterling Ruby, and Others with Alumni Awards
October 7, 2019 • German City Rescinds Support for Art Prize after Artist Refused to Denounce BDS Movement
October 4, 2019 • Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art Promotes Meg Onli to Associate Curator
September 19, 2019 • Getty Launches $100 Million Initiative to Safeguard World's Ancient Cultural Heritage
September 17, 2019 • New York City to Build $15 Million Immigrant Research and Performing Arts Center
September 11, 2019 • Seth Brodsky Named Director of University of Chicago's Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
September 6, 2019 • New York University Students Protest Return of Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment
September 4, 2019 • Artists Call for Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art to Drop Trustee Tied to $130 Million Lawsuit over ICE Detainees
September 3, 2019 • International Museum Association Calls for Reopening of Aichi Triennale Exhibition Following Censorship Controversy
August 29, 2019 • Solveig Øvstebø, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Renaissance Society, to Depart in February
August 26, 2019 • Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Aims to Become First Fully Solar-Powered Museum
July 31, 2019 • Knight Foundation Will Award $750,000 to Tech Projects Connecting People with the Arts
July 23, 2019 • British Museum Staffers Express Solidarity with Trustee Who Resigned over BP Sponsorship
May 14, 2019 • Getty Research Institute Appoints Pietro Rigolo Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections
April 22, 2019 • Canadian Museums Association Receives $1 Million to Promote and Preserve Indigenous Culture
April 17, 2019 • Eskenazi Museum of Art Hires Elliot Reichert as Inaugural Curator of Contemporary Art
April 16, 2019 • Hito Steyerl Urges London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery to "Divorce" from Sackler Funding
April 10, 2019 • Getty Research Institute Acquires Archives of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen
March 22, 2019 • Getty Research Institute Appoints Leronn P. Brooks Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections
March 22, 2019 • New Art Facility and Expanded Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis to Open in September
March 20, 2019 • Following Pushback, Sackler Trust and London's National Portrait Gallery Drop $1.3 Million Grant
March 8, 2019 • Adrienne Edwards and Adam Pendleton Join Board of ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University
March 1, 2019 • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Awards over $1.5 Million to Artists and Arts Organizations
February 28, 2019 • Rubin Museum Will Open Shahidul Alam Retrospective, Following His Release from Detention
February 22, 2019 • Ronni Baer Named Princeton University Art Museum's Distinguished Curator and Lecturer
February 12, 2019 • Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio Awarded 2019 Royal Academy Architecture Prize
February 11, 2019 • Two Hundred Vancouver Art Gallery Workers Strike in Protest of Low Wages and Benefit Cuts
January 28, 2019 • University of Texas at Dallas Receives $23 Million Gift, Major Collection of Asian Art
January 9, 2019 • Photographer's Arrest Sparks Outrage over Chinese Government's Persecution of Uyghur Cultural Figures
January 3, 2019 • Activists Call for Town Hall to Address Controversy over Whitney Museum Vice Chair's Ties to Defense Company
January 3, 2019 • Rachel Schreiber Named Executive Dean of Parsons School of Design at The New School
December 17, 2018 • Scholars Urge Germany to Create a National Institute Addressing Colonial-Era Objects
December 12, 2018 • Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago Makes Five Curatorial Appointments
December 4, 2018 • University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Confederate Monument Relocation Plan Sparks Protest
December 3, 2018 • Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Gives $2 Million to Art Schools, Announces Educational Initiatives
November 27, 2018 • France to Return Benin Sculptures Following Groundbreaking Report on Restitution of African Art
November 20, 2018 • Turkish Cultural Figures Detained Amid Government Crackdown on Freedom of Expression
November 6, 2018 • Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft Will Explore Merger
November 5, 2018 • AAMD Announces Partner Museums in Internship Program for Underrepresented College Students
November 2, 2018 • Central Academy of Fine Arts and Rhizome Partner on First China-Based Seven on Seven Conference
October 31, 2018 • Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris Receives 1,300 Works in Its Largest-Ever Donation
October 30, 2018 • Thousands of Cultural Workers Demand Resignation of Germany's Interior Minister Horst Seehofer
October 25, 2018 • Germany's Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Comes under Fire for Pulling Performance Amid Right-Wing Protests
October 22, 2018 • Rutgers University’s Russian Art Archive Added to Garage Museum’s Research Network
October 17, 2018 • Arab Art & Education Initiative Launches Amid Controversy Around Saudi Journalist’s Disappearance
October 16, 2018 • Studio Museum in Harlem Launches New Neighborhood Education Initiative, "Find Art Here"
October 15, 2018 • California College of the Arts Names Hank Willis Thomas First Creative Citizenship Fellow
October 10, 2018 • Florida's The Wolfsonian Appoints Yucef Merhi as Inaugural Curator of Digital Collections
October 9, 2018 • Tania Bruguera's Tate Modern Intervention Protests Bangladeshi Photographer's Imprisonment
October 8, 2018 • José Esparza Chong Cuy Named Executive Director and Chief Curator of Storefront for Art and Architecture
October 5, 2018 • Chimurenga Receives the Vera List Center’s 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice
October 3, 2018 • Documenta 14 Artists Decry Death of LGBTQ Activist as Violence Against Minorities in Greece Rises
October 2, 2018 • Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Names Rachel Adams Chief Curator and Director of Programs
September 27, 2018 • Scottish Parliament Reviews Glasgow School of Art’s Guardianship of Mackintosh Building
September 20, 2018 • Following Director’s Dismissal, Artist Pauses Exhibition at University Art Museum at CSU Long Beach
September 18, 2018 • Kimberli Meyer Will No Longer Direct University Art Museum at California State, Long Beach
September 17, 2018 • Liverpool Mayor Calls for Volunteers to Help Protect Repeatedly Attacked Artwork
September 17, 2018 • Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts Program Postponed as School of Art Recovery Continues
September 14, 2018 • Argentina's Culture Ministry Staff Declare "Cultural Emergency" after Budget Slashes
September 13, 2018 • Museum Studies Students Launch Recovery Effort for the National Museum of Brazil
September 7, 2018 • Dominic Willsdon Named Executive Director of the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University
September 4, 2018 • British Cultural Figures Call for Release of Photographer and Educator Shahidul Alam
September 3, 2018 • University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum Appoints Christian Viveros-Fauné Curator at Large
August 30, 2018 • Alleging Unfair Dismissal, Former Workers at London's National Gallery to Auction Art for Employment Lawsuit
August 29, 2018 • Princeton University Art Museum Names Stephen J. Kim Associate Director for Information and Technology
August 22, 2018 • Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin to Donate 500 Works to Museums Statewide
August 21, 2018 • Protesters at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topple Confederate Statue
August 17, 2018 • Caroline Fowler Appointed Associate Director of Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program
August 13, 2018 • Bloomberg Philanthropies Selects Arts Organizations in Atlanta for $43 Million Management Training Program
August 9, 2018 • Bangladeshi Photographer Arrested after Criticizing Government's Handling of Protests
August 9, 2018 • College Art Association Receives $1 Million Gift to Fund Travel for Art History Faculty and Students
August 7, 2018 • Liverpool Biennial Artwork Featuring Names of Thousands of Dead Refugees Is Destroyed
August 1, 2018 • Northwestern University Initiative to Help Puerto Rico Relaunch Arts Programs Following Devastation from Hurricanes
July 25, 2018 • J. Meejin Yoon Named Dean of Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
July 24, 2018 • Following Sculpture Garden Controversy, Walker Art Center Forms Indigenous Art Committee
July 17, 2018 • Association of Art Museum Directors Aims to Diversify Museum Field with New Internship Program
July 16, 2018 • Clark Art Institute Appoints Robert Wiesenberger Associate Curator of Contemporary Projects
June 27, 2018 • Mead Art Museum Names Emily Potter-Ndiaye Head of Education and Curator of Academic Programs
June 22, 2018 • Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University Appoints Lindsay Cooper Martin Deputy Director
May 28, 2018 • Berkshire Museum and La Salle University Art Museum Face Sanctions for Selling Artworkds
May 21, 2018 • Pro-Palestinian Artwork at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Censured by Israeli Minister
May 10, 2018 • British Artists Sign Petition Condemning Lack of Creative Subjects in UK Secondary Education
May 7, 2018 • Tanya Sheehan Named Director of Research at Lunder Institute of American Art at Colby College
April 24, 2018 • Getty Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies Award Ten Art History Fellowships
April 19, 2018 • California College of the Arts Appoints Deans in Fine Arts and Humanities and Sciences
April 17, 2018 • University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art Names Acting Director Amid Construction Halt
April 12, 2018 • College Art Association Awards Seven Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grants
April 9, 2018 • After Controversial Hire, Activists Call for Brooklyn Museum to Form Decolonization Commission
April 9, 2018 • Helen Molesworth to Deliver UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Commencement Address
April 5, 2018 • Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania Receives $4.5 Million for Curatorial Positions
March 29, 2018 • Cultural Figures Call for Release of Former Black Liberation Army Member Herman Bell
March 27, 2018 • Archive of Black Panther Party Photographer Stephen Shames Enters Briscoe Center Collection
March 23, 2018 • Mark Lee Appointed Chair of the Department of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design
March 19, 2018 • Ellen Driscoll Awarded the International Sculpture Center Outstanding Educator Award
March 13, 2018 • Director María Inés Rodríguez Faces Dismissal from Bordeaux's CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain
March 12, 2018 • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Names Lili Chopra Executive Director of Cultural Programs, Grants, and Services
March 9, 2018 • Cristiana Perrella Named Director of Italy's Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci
March 9, 2018 • Charlotte Laubard, HEAD–Genève Professor and Dean, to Curate Swiss Pavilion at 58th Venice Biennale
March 8, 2018 • Colby College Museum of Art Receives $2 Million Donation for Contemporary Art Gallery
February 28, 2018 • MSU Broad Art Museum Promotes Carla Acevedo-Yates and Steven L. Bridges to Associate Curators
February 28, 2018 • Michael Lobel Appointed to Doctoral Faculty in Art History at The Graduate Center
February 27, 2018 • Neville Brody To Step Down as Dean of Royal College of Art’s School of Communication
February 23, 2018 • Wexner Center for the Arts Director Sherri Geldin to Step Down after Twenty-Five Years
February 23, 2018 • Benjamin Chaffee Named Associate Director of Visual Arts at Wesleyan University Center for the Arts
February 19, 2018 • Kemi Ilesanmi and Juan Sánchez Join Joan Mitchell Foundation's Board of Directors
February 19, 2018 • Sarah Schroth Reappointed Director of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
January 30, 2018 • Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby Awarded Clark Art Institute Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing
January 8, 2018 • Andrea Fraser Appointed Chair of the Art Department at University of California, Los Angeles
January 4, 2018 • Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for Contemporary Art Appoints Assistant Curators
December 22, 2017 • New York City Grants More Than $40 Million to Local Arts and Cultural Organizations
December 21, 2017 • Nazi-Looted Artwork Fuels Dispute Between City of Düsseldorf and Heirs of Jewish Collector
December 12, 2017 • Savannah College of Art and Design President Under Scrutiny for Financial Impropriety
November 30, 2017 • Shoshana Resnikoff Named Curator of Florida International University’s Wolfsonian
November 16, 2017 • University of California, Irvine Will Create a New California Art Museum Following Major Donation
November 15, 2017 • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Glassell School of Art Opening Delayed Due to Hurricane Harvey
November 10, 2017 • Rutgers Zimmerli Art Museum Gifted $34 Million Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art
November 10, 2017 • Williams College Museum of Art Adds Works by Prominent African-American Artists to its Collection
November 9, 2017 • Yale School of Art Receives $750,000 to Establish New Art and Social Justice Initiative
November 1, 2017 • Thomas Hart Benton Mural at Indiana University Depcting KKK Sparks Call for Removal
October 25, 2017 • Creative Time’s Nato Thompson Named Artistic Director of Philadelphia Contemporary
October 24, 2017 • Department of Education Delays Regulations Protecting Student Borrowers from For-Profit Schools
October 19, 2017 • Mel Chin and the University of North Carolina–Asheville Partner on Augmented Reality Project
October 18, 2017 • Virginia Commonwealth University’s New Institute for Contemporary Art to Open in 2018
October 18, 2017 • Ackland Art Museum at University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Adds to Its Collection
October 12, 2017 • Alistair Hudson Named Director of University of Manchester’s Whitworth and Manchester Art Galleries
October 11, 2017 • Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Taylor Mac, and Trevor Paglen Among 2017 MacArthur Fellows
October 10, 2017 • Citing Lack of Funds, Marina Abramović Nixes Plans for New York Performance Art Institute
October 3, 2017 • Activists and Artists Publish Open Letter to Chris Dercon, Director of Berlin’s Volksbühne Theater
October 2, 2017 • MCA Chicago and the Nasher Museum of Art to Split Inaugural $250,000 Sotheby’s Prize
September 27, 2017 • Michigan Art Festival Scrutinized for Ties to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
September 25, 2017 • Documenta’s Parent Company Releases Interim Audit Report, Announces Structural Changes
September 14, 2017 • Dina Deitsch Appointed Director and Chief Curator of Tufts Univeristy Art Galleries
September 12, 2017 • Clark Art Institute Names Lisa Saltzman Director of Its Research and Academic Program
September 12, 2017 • Bruce High Quality Foundation University President Offers Details on the School’s Closure
September 5, 2017 • Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Awarded $20,000 Grant for Youth Education Programs
August 31, 2017 • SAIC and the University of Chicago Selected as Co-Commissioners of the US Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
August 29, 2017 • Gregg Museum of Art at North Carolina State University Reopens After Two-Year Renovation
August 28, 2017 • Beijing Contemporary Art Foundation Announces First Edition of Creative China Festival
August 22, 2017 • Hammer Names Associate Director and Senior Curator of Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts
August 16, 2017 • Tate Director Maria Balshaw Appointed Honorary Professor at University of Manchester
August 14, 2017 • New York Public Library Names Salvatore Scibona Director of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
August 10, 2017 • London’s National Portrait Gallery Declares Opposition to National Gallery’s Expansion Plan
August 10, 2017 • Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois Expands Digital Access to its Collection
August 7, 2017 • ProjectArt Appoints Chana Budgazad Sheldon as Miami Director and National Program Advisor
August 4, 2017 • Graham Foundation Awards $400,000 to Organizations for Making Advancements in Architecture
August 2, 2017 • Performa Announces Collaboration with Brown University Arts Initiative and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
July 13, 2017 • Eighteen States Sue U.S. Department of Education for Failure to Uphold Student Borrower Protections
July 12, 2017 • Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies Presents Exhibition of Contemporary Arab Art
July 7, 2017 • Martha Friedman Appointed Director of the Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University
June 30, 2017 • Survey by American Association of University Presses Reflects Importance of Academic Publishing
June 27, 2017 • New Art Gallery Walsall Saved from Closure By Arts Council England Grant and University Partnership
June 20, 2017 • Penn Graduate Student Union Unlikely Following National Labor Relations Board Appointment
June 16, 2017 • Paul O’Neill to Step Down as Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College
June 4, 2017 • Valerie Cassel Oliver Named Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
May 25, 2017 • Elmhurst Art Museum Executive Director Steps Down and Joins Sotheby’s Institute of Art
May 22, 2017 • Crystal Bridges Museum Establishes Fund for Education Initiatives with $15 Million Gift
May 18, 2017 • As UK Election Looms, UK Labor Party Pledges $1 Billion in Arts Funding for the Next Five Years
May 1, 2017 • Lauren Cornell Joins Bard Graduate Program as Director and Hessel Museum as Chief Curator
April 27, 2017 • Student Artwork Calls Attention to University of North Carolina’s White Supremacist Past
April 19, 2017 • San Francisco and New York State Tuition Programs Draw Criticism Over Eligibility Requirements
April 11, 2017 • Private Philanthropy Could Replace NEA Grants, As Some Republican Representatives Support a Budget Increase
March 29, 2017 • UK Prime Minister Officially Enacts Brexit, Creating Widespread Uncertainty in British Arts Sector
March 28, 2017 • Birmingham City University Establishes Program for Visual Culture in North Africa and the Middle East
March 23, 2017 • Proposed California Bill Finances Tuition-Free Higher Education Through Millionaire Tax
March 22, 2017 • New Fund to Protect Cultural Heritage in War-Torn Areas Launched by France and the UAE
March 15, 2017 • South Korea Culture Ministry Pushes for Legislation to Protect Artists from Discrimination
March 13, 2017 • Prospect New Orleans Appoints Jennifer M. Williams as Deputy Director of Public Experience
March 9, 2017 • Freie Universität Berlin and Heirs of Rudolf Mosse Join Forces to Locate Nazi-Looted Artworks
February 23, 2017 • Decline in Monographs by University Presses Reflects Changing Publishing Landscape
February 22, 2017 • High Museum Awards Naima J. Keith the David C. Driskell Prize for African American Art History
February 21, 2017 • Details Announced for Ancient Artifacts Loaned to Iraqi Pavilion at 2017 Venice Biennale
February 16, 2017 • Yale University Art Gallery Grows Collection of Works by African-American Artists
February 13, 2017 • University of Houston Launches Fellowship Program to Better Integrate Arts into Communities
February 13, 2017 • Blanton Museum of Art at University of Texas at Austin Reopens After Five-Year Renovation
February 6, 2017 • Colby College Museum of Art Receives $100 Million Gift from Peter and Paula Lunder
February 6, 2017 • Auction of Ash-Inspired Artworks Raises Funds for Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Restoration
February 3, 2017 • Collector Eli Broad Urges US Senate to Block Trump’s Nomination for Education Secretary
February 3, 2017 • In Interview, CAA Executive Director Charts a Course for Supporting Art and Education
January 30, 2017 • Iraqi Nonprofit Launches Educational Initiative to Provide Middle East with Art Texts
January 30, 2017 • Trump Administration's Travel and Immigration Ban Impacts Higher Education Across the US
January 28, 2017 • Daina Augaitis, Chief Curator and Associate Director of Vancouver Art Gallery, Steps Down
January 27, 2017 • US Universities Face Uncertain Future as ‘Sanctuaries’ for Undocumented Immigrants
January 26, 2017 • Libraries and Museums Around the World Add Women’s March Artifacts to their Collections
January 25, 2017 • More Than 400 American Architecture Firms Address Donald Trump on Climate Change in Open Letter
January 23, 2017 • On Inauguration Weekend, Artists and Activists Respond to Proposed NEA and NEH Cuts
December 22, 2016 • ArtCenter/South Florida to Partner with Bruce High Quality Foundation University to Provide Arts Education
December 21, 2016 • San Francisco Academy of Art to Pay City $60 Million for Building Code Violations
December 19, 2016 • Mark Polizzotti to Receive the Medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters
December 19, 2016 • Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Elects Two Artists to Board of Governors
December 14, 2016 • Arts Council England Report Shows Lack of Diversity in Leadership Roles at Most Arts Institutions
December 12, 2016 • CCS Bard Names Nicholas Serota Recipient of the 2017 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence
December 9, 2016 • 2017 College Art Association Conference Will Highlight Race and Politics in Art Education
November 29, 2016 • Max Hollein Bets on Scholarship and Education to Boost Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Profile
November 28, 2016 • Salem State University Shuts Down Exhibition Responding to US Presidential Election
November 19, 2016 • Washington University in St. Louis’s Sam Fox School Names Shimon Attie 2016-17 Freund Teaching Fellow
November 15, 2016 • Following Election, Free Public Higher Education in the U.S. Faces an Uncertain Future
November 10, 2016 • Mexican Architects Reveal Designs for Massive Pink Border Wall, Highlighting “Gorgeous Perversity” of Trump’s Vision
November 8, 2016 • New Institute Dedicated to Art Historical Research, Digitization Opens in New York
November 1, 2016 • With Gift, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Endows Nick Cave’s Professorship
October 31, 2016 • Report Notes Influence Art Historians on Art Market Following Cancellation of A-Levels in England
October 29, 2016 • USC, Otis, and Other California Art Schools, Selected as Venues for 2017 Pacific Standard Time
October 26, 2016 • CAA Reports from the 31st Annual Conference of South African Visual Arts Historians Amid Widespread Student Demonstrations
October 17, 2016 • Sydney College of the Arts' Student Occupation Secures Six-Month Reprieve from Relocation
October 14, 2016 • University of Southern California’s Fischer Museum of Art Receives Gift of 700 Works
October 12, 2016 • Director of Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Responds to Critics of Decision to Wall Off Kelley Walker Exhibition
October 9, 2016 • France’s Minister of Culture Allocates Nearly $3.3 Billion in Funding for French Museums in 2017
October 4, 2016 • Museum Directors Organize Exhibitions for Private Collectors to Reinforce Their Reduced Institutional Budgets
September 30, 2016 • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Votes to Change Diane Wilsey's Role from President to Board Chair
September 24, 2016 • Thousands of Museum Professionals and Scientists Sign Petition Against Construction of Oil Pipeline in North Dakota
September 18, 2016 • New York City Launches $1 Million Initiative to Fund Internships at Cultural Institutions
September 16, 2016 • World Trade Center Arts Complex Reveals Design and Names Barbra Streisand Board Chair
September 14, 2016 • David Berliner Named President and Chief Operating Officer of the Brooklyn Museum
September 3, 2016 • Baltimore Museum of Art Names Katy Siegel as Senior Programming and Research Curator
September 2, 2016 • Artists Plan to Turn Langston Hughes’s Home into Nonprofit for Harlem’s Cultural Legacy
August 25, 2016 • Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Cutting Jobs and Closing Main Building Due to Expansion
August 22, 2016 • UK Museums Ethics Committee Dismisses Allegations of Corruption in BP’s Sponsorships
August 18, 2016 • Carla Acevedo-Yates Appointed Assistant Curator at Michigan State University’s Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
August 16, 2016 • Michael Jordan Will Give $5 Million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
August 12, 2016 • Anna Mecugni Joins Tulane’s Newcomb Art Museum as Curator and Coordinator of Academic Programming
August 10, 2016 • Following Student and Staff Defections, Roski School of Art Hires Five New Faculty Members
August 5, 2016 • Four UK Institutions Renew BP Sponsorships as Activists Promise to Escalate Protests
July 31, 2016 • Florine Stettheimer and Rockwell Kent Paintings Surreptitiously Sold by Nashville’s Fisk University
July 30, 2016 • Detroit Institute of Arts Launches Multimillion Dollar Campaign to Add African American Art to Its Collection
July 28, 2016 • New Fellowship Program at University of Edinburgh Based on the Philosophies of Donald Judd and David Hume
July 18, 2016 • NYPD Monitors Gallery After It Received Threats for Displaying Flag Protesting Police Brutality
July 14, 2016 • Mellon Foundation Awards Walker Art Center $1 Million For Interdisciplinary Arts Initiative
July 8, 2016 • Garage Museum Is the First Cultural Institution to Launch Extensive Programming for Disabled People in Russia
July 7, 2016 • New Museum and K11 Art Foundation Collaborate to Start New Residency for Emerging Chinese Artists
July 5, 2016 • Ronald Perelman Gifts $75 Million for Performing Arts Center at World Trade Center Site
June 9, 2016 • Detroit’s Museum of Contemporary Art Receives $100,000 Matching Grant from the Mike Kelley Foundation
April 24, 2016 • Warhol Museum Director Eric Shiner Cancels North Carolina Visit, Protesting New Transgender Bathroom Law
April 16, 2016 • Oklahoma State University Receives $25 Million Challenge Gift for Performing Arts Center
April 12, 2016 • Students Who Quit USC’s Art School in Protest Will Stage Thesis Show Alternative at New LA Venue
April 6, 2016 • Whitney Museum Presents Inaugural Whitney Collection Award to Leonard A. Lauder, Names New Building in His Honor
March 30, 2016 • Scott Indrisek and Rachel Corbett Named New Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor at Modern Painters
March 28, 2016 • Art Institute of Chicago Names Ann Goldstein Deputy Director and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
March 26, 2016 • Art Historians and Archaeologists Stage Two Days of Protests Against Italy’s Recent Cultural Reforms
March 25, 2016 • The Hepworth Wakefield Announces Shortlist and Judges for UK’s First Sculpture Prize
March 24, 2016 • Judge Dismisses Accused Rapist’s Suit Against Columbia Professor Who Advised Emma Sulkowicz on Mattress Project
March 22, 2016 • Mellon Foundation Gives $3 Million Challenge Grant for Art Conservation to Guggenheim Museum
March 21, 2016 • Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Receives 140 Ink Paintings from Japan’s Edo Period
March 16, 2016 • Musée D’Orsay President Defends His Record after Curators Anonymously Contact Le Monde
March 12, 2016 • University of Iowa Cancels Partnership with Private Donors Funding Construction of New Art Museum
March 11, 2016 • Protest Grows Against London V&A’s Transfer of Photography Collection from Museum in Yorkshire
March 1, 2016 • Metropolitan Museum of Art Settles Class Action Lawsuit Regarding Its “Pay What You Wish” Admission Policy
February 29, 2016 • Yasufumi Nakamori Chosen to Lead Photo Department at Minneapolis Institute of Art
February 11, 2016 • Naima Keith Will Leave Studio Museum in Harlem to Serve as Deputy Director at California African American Museum
February 8, 2016 • Escobedo Solíz Studio Named Winner of MoMA and MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program
February 6, 2016 • The Tate’s Nicholas Serota Supports UK Art Fund’s Suspension of Fundraising Initiatives
February 5, 2016 • Nina McNeely Diefenbach Named Deputy Director for Advancement at the Barnes Foundation
February 4, 2016 • New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Survey Reports Lack of Diversity in City’s Cultural Institutions
January 24, 2016 • After Bankruptcy and Curtailed Season, New York City Opera May Issue Up to $323,000 in Ticket Refunds
January 23, 2016 • Facing Budget Shortages, Nearly One in Five UK Museums Will Make Partial Closures by 2016, Survey Reveals
January 22, 2016 • Ellsworth Kelly Foundation Gives $250,000 to Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies
January 12, 2016 • Choreographer Stephen Petronio to Launch New Residency Program in Upstate New York
January 9, 2016 • Initial Designs Revealed for Thomas Krens’s Massive New Museum in Northern Massachusetts
January 8, 2016 • Tacoma Museum Meets with Protesters Who Staged “Die-In” to Protest Lack of Artists of Color in AIDS Exhibition
December 30, 2015 • Bridget Riley Foundation Funds Program to Help Art Students Access British Museum’s Collection
December 4, 2015 • UK’s Department for Sport, Culture, and Media to Face 20 Percent Decrease in Budget
November 30, 2015 • Cultural Institutions in Paris Report Major Drops in Attendance Following Terrorist Attacks
November 25, 2015 • Barnes Foundation Names Deputy Director for Education and Public Programs and Curator
November 15, 2015 • $1 Million Commitment from Owens Corning Supports Educational Mission of Toledo Museum of Art
November 14, 2015 • June Hargrove and Alison Stones Receive Insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters
November 12, 2015 • Council Rejects Plan to Convert South London Parking Lot into 800 Artists Studios
November 8, 2015 • Minneapolis Institute of Art Announces Winner of Inaugural 3M Art and Technology Award
October 28, 2015 • George Lucas Gives $10 Million to Support USC’s African American and Hispanic Film Students
October 24, 2015 • Berlin State Museums to Stage First Major Exhibition of Works from the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
October 23, 2015 • Sarah Wilson Wins 2015 AICA Honorary Award for Distinguished Contribution to Art Criticism
October 22, 2015 • Ai Weiwei Receives German Visa, Prepares to Join Faculty of Berlin’s University of the Arts
October 8, 2015 • Phillips Collection and University of Maryland Join Forces to Create New Art Center
October 3, 2015 • University of Connecticut Eliminates Curator and Director Positions at Schlippe Gallery
October 1, 2015 • Cleveland Museum of Art and the Akron Art Museum Jointly Receive Gift of Over 700 Photographs
September 21, 2015 • Detroit Institute of Art’s Former Director Given New Appointment at Michigan State University
September 6, 2015 • Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Appoints New vice Director and Academic Program Chairs
September 4, 2015 • Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History Names Perri Irmer President and CEO
September 3, 2015 • Cooper Union Agrees to Deal to End Lawsuit, Could Lead to Return to Tuition-Free Status
September 2, 2015 • Min Jung Kim Will Leave Broad Art Museum to Direct New Britain Museum of American Art
August 30, 2015 • 2015–2016 Members Announced for National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
August 18, 2015 • Brutal Winter Catalyzes Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s $1.5 Million Roof Renovation
August 13, 2015 • Serpentine Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA Among Winners of 2015 Graham Foundation Grants
August 6, 2015 • Given $10 Million to Create Affordable Studio Space, New York Nonprofit Eyes Two Bronx Sites
July 11, 2015 • MoMA Curator Pedro Gadanho Named Artistic Director of Lisbon’s Museum of Art, Technology, and Architecture
July 10, 2015 • Director of Minnesota’s Rochester Art Center Leaves to Head Orlando’s Public Art Program
July 6, 2015 • Six Artistic Directors of Documenta Pen Letter in Support of Activists Banned from UAE
June 28, 2015 • Toronto’s Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art to Triple Space with New $6 Million Renovated Site
June 9, 2015 • American Institute of Architects Passes New Resolution Confronting Gender and Racial Disparities
June 4, 2015 • The Institute of International Education Launches Program to Assist Threatened Artists
June 1, 2015 • Former Head of Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College is New Chief Curator at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
June 1, 2015 • Over Sixty Curators, Critics, and Museum Directors Sign Letter in Support of Gulf Labor Members Denied Entry to UAE
May 24, 2015 • Christopher Heuer Named Associate Director of Research and Academic Program at Clark Art Institute
May 8, 2015 • Studio Museum in Harlem, Baltimore Museum of Art Among Latest Recipients of NEA Art Works Grants
May 4, 2015 • Art From Japanese Internment Camp Detainees Acquired By Japanese American National Museum
May 3, 2015 • Jane Farver, Curator and Former Head of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Has Died in Venice
April 25, 2015 • Art Institute of Chicago Gets a $400 Million Collection, the Largest Gift In Its History
April 24, 2015 • Columbia University Dining Hall Workers Say They're Not Allowed To Speak Spanish Around Students
April 22, 2015 • Migrant Workers in Abu Dhabi Lose out as Subcontractors for New York University’s Saddiyat Island Campus Exploit Loophole
April 5, 2015 • Smithsonian Museum of American History Receives $2.5 Million from LeRoy Neiman Foundation
April 2, 2015 • Williams College Is Latest to Benefit from Software Mogul Peter Norton’s Giving Spree
March 12, 2015 • MIT List Visual Arts Center Receives $200,000 Gift from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation for Joan Jonas’s US Pavilion Project
February 4, 2015 • Broad Art Museum Names Caitlín Doherty Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial AffairsEast Lansing, Michigan
January 19, 2015 • Andrew W. Mellon, Joan Mitchell Foundations Give $370,000 to Contemporary Art Conservation Group
January 11, 2015 • Association of Art Museum Directors Releases First Annual “Art Museums By the Numbers”
December 30, 2014 • Dodge Foundation Announces Over $132,000 in Grants to New Jersey Arts Institutions
November 28, 2014 • Metropolitan Museum of Art Receives Major Gift of Works by African American Artists
