The case for and against the policy of free admission for UK museums, a tour of the British Museum's new Michelangelo show and an in-depth look at Maria Blanchard’s Girl at Her First Communion in Malaga

Archive of the Avant-Garde in German city’s renovated Blockhaus hosts Egidio Marzona’s collection of paintings, drawings and vast documentary archive of letters, manuscripts, sketches, invitations and stickers

The shortlist of five for Art Fund's ₤120,000 award also includes the Craven Museum, Dundee Contemporary Arts, the National Portrait Gallery and the Manchester Museum

The inclusion of Otto Muehl, who was convicted of sexual abuses against minors, has triggered protests at the Vienna Actionism Museum, which opened in March

The Wyllieum is part of a new cruise ship visitor centre in Greenock

Over the past five years Kouoh has been turning around the fortunes of one of Africa's biggest museums, focusing on its collection, governance and funding streams

La Specola reopens, displaying its realistic 18th- and 19th-century corpse stand-ins

Plus, Morel cup enters the Musée d'Orsay and non-profit Joy of Giving Something gifts photography collection to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Acquisition a month before museum's 200th anniversary makes Gonzalès just the 20th woman artist to be represented in the collection

Year of the Earthshot features more than 1,000 interdisciplinary programmes that explore climate solutions, from immersive exhibitions to a project with Unesco and four World Heritage Sites—and an online cooking show

Currently director of Bonn’s Kunstverein, Hellberg takes up her new post in October 2025

Budding artist surreptitiously displayed his work alongside art by Andy Warhol

However arts organisations worldwide trail behind the corporate sector and academia, according to a study, often because of limited resources

Renovations need to win out over new extensions, says sustainability professor Martin Müller, and museums need to 'get back to basics'

The Louisiana institution's Wangechi Mutu exhibition gives students a new perspective on African American studies

The Berkeley professor did not want to be a "distraction" to the event in Paris after she was criticised for describing the 7 October attacks as an “act of armed resistance”

Other art institutions in the Special Administrative Region also enjoyed healthy figures in 2023, according to The Art Newspaper's annual attendance survey

Hong Kong’s huge cultural quarter has been spectacularly successful at pulling in tourists and shows, but with its endowment running out, it needs to find new financial solutions

While artists have decried the platform’s shift beyond still images, institutions are getting on board

Our exclusive Visitor Figures 2023 survey shows that many of the world’s leading art museums returned to their pre-pandemic attendance levels. But some, especially in the UK, are still missing millions of visitors

Chinese institution, which suspended exhibitions in October 2022, has been reinvigorated following fundraising auction

While the architect, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, has been fired or stepped down from a number of contracts, other institutions continue to work with Adjaye Associates

“Liberation museum” and propaganda-rich displays aim to rewrite history and legitimise war.

The chilling of artistic freedom is impacting artists and those they connect with

The death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny last month, after years of confinement in a Siberian jail, and subsequent quelling of protest, emphasised the flourishing of censorship across a globe riven by geopolitical crises, in a year when democracy is put to the test in more than 70 countries. With the threat of electoral misinformation being boosted by AI-generated content and social media algorithms, artists have been warning of new kinds of censorship. The effect is being felt in real life, online and in social media

Country's president has called it an "attack on the state"

Exhibition brings together works representing the world’s fifth largest religious community

With traditional philanthropic models on the wane, US institutions like the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Andy Warhol Museum are engaging in unconventional partnerships and launching spin-off businesses

The National Museum of Slavery, due to open in 2030, is part of an ongoing process being undertaken by the Dutch state to investigate the repercussions of its colonial past

Update to guidelines warns partner organisations that funding arrangements could be jeopardised by "reputational risk"