Christie 1DLP laser projectors alight the Canada Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. The 1,364 square meter (14,681 square foot) pavilion, located in the Sustainability District, welcomes guests with art installations, an interactive light and sound experience and a 360-degree theatre.

EllisDon, a Canadian contracting company, with Lord Cultural Resources, NGX Interactive and kubik maltbie as strategic partners, was awarded the contract to design, build and maintain the pavilion

The Louvre in Paris is conducting a three-year restitution research project focused on works that entered the museum’s collection between 1933 and 1945. As part of the initiative, which is being sponsored by Sotheby’s, the museum will produce a series of public programs related to restitution.

What makes a great museum? It’s about more than just the art inside its walls—it’s also those walls themselves, which are meant to work in service of what’s on view. As many architects have realized over the years, museum buildings can, if anything, function like artworks themselves, as objects for appreciation. In some cases, these buildings have become just as identifiable as the masterpieces in museums’ collections.

Mystic Seaport Museum has announced it has received three grants totaling $519,999 from Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Lord Cultural Resources has been engaged to facilitate a DEAI (Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion) Plan for Mystic Seaport Museum.

The Rubin Museum of Art in New York said this week that it will return two ancient artifacts believed by researchers to have been looted from religious sites in Nepal following a review of the objects’ provenance records. An activist group that tracks looted Nepali cultural property, the Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign, had called on the museum to return the two wooden sculptures after identifying them as having been stolen in September.

Four peaks clad in weathering steel cover the underground galleries at the Datong Art Museum, which British architecture studio Foster + Partners has completed in northern China. The 32,000-square-metre art museum, which is now open in Datong, is designed by Foster + Partners as an "urban living room" with facilities for both artists and the public.

For a century, Niagara Parks Power Station produced electricity; then, for a decade, the building lay abandoned, sad and neglected. Now, the monumental stone building by Niagara Falls has been reimagined and restored as a museum and event space to tell the story of how it helped power Ontario.

Taking an innovative approach to mark an important date, the exhibition YVES SAINT LAURENT AUX MUSÉES will convene six Parisian museums: the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée National Picasso-Paris and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, and delve into the profound inspirational bond the couturier had with art in general, and the collections of French public museums in particular.

New Haven will seek to redistribute wealth and address centuries of exploitation by amplifying the voices of artists from marginalized communities through its new Cultural Equity Plan.

Over the next year, people living in B.C.'s Interior and north will be able to view the reproduction of a large-scale art installation currently touring museums across B.C. that commemorates the legacy of Indian residential schools.

As a tidal wave of racial reckoning has forced the museum industry to confront its dismal record on diversity, curators of American art are beginning to reassess galleries devoted almost exclusively to Hudson Valley landscapes and Rococo portraits by dead white men.

A new study has shown that colonial history and socioeconomic factors affect the way researchers study palaeontological samples and interpret the data.

Collecting is a core function of museums — a way to preserve the present for future generations and to educate and inspire visitors with objects from the past. And yet removing artwork — with the hope of returning it to its rightful owner — was one of the first moves made by the new director of the National Museum of African Art.

On the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, the National Museum of American History continues to collect related artifacts.

Holdings from Ancient Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa come together in a masterpiece show. Now the Met should make clear how the wondrous works got here.

Ngaire Blankenberg, the new director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art (NMAA), has been a consultant for museums and cultural destinations around the world. She draws on a rich experience in finding innovative ways to connect cultural resources to new audiences, and a commitment to re-imagining the museums of the future.

Marking 25 years since the founding of the National Gallery in 1997, this exhibition explores the growth of their permanent collection over the past quarter-century – a period in which NGCI has consistently strived to ensure the safety and care of this precious cultural resource on behalf on the Caymanian people.

On Wednesday, museums and theaters in the Netherlands temporarily turned themselves into salons and gyms in protest over continued coronavirus restrictions on the arts sector. All non-essential businesses in the country have been closed since late December in an attempt to slow a surge in cases that threatened to overwhelm its intensive care facilities.

Weeks before the pandemic necessitated its temporary closure, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History filed for bankruptcy in hopes of keeping its doors open.

It’s always good to have something to look forward to at the beginning of a new year and in 2022 there are plenty of museum projects being completed including new museum openings, re-openings and partial re-openings.

Several Smithsonian museums and the Wadsworth Atheneum are among institutions that have had to close temporarily.

This year's must-see exhibitions include the return of the Venice Biennale and Documenta, blockbuster shows of Donatello and Cézanne, and a sculpture festival for the Qatar World Cup. Because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, please check exhibitions are going ahead before you travel.

Matt Coleman recently opened the city’s tiny art gallery on the front lawn of his Mapleside Drive home off Aberdeen. He’s an art teacher with the Halton District School Board and a photographer.

A look at the movements that defined 2021 in the art world, and how they may evolve in the year ahead.

With Covid-19 causing delays in construction schedules and project openings, compiling CNN's annual architecture lookahead has become a tricky business. Indeed, several entries in last year's list (and even 2020's) are yet to officially open their doors.

What have your favourite online events been over the last couple of years? Have you been enjoying plays at home (thanks National Theatre!)? Joined a digital dinner party, à la AVM Curiosities lockdown event for the British Academy? Or maybe you’ve sung in a cyber choir like Opera North’s From Couch to Chorus?

Popular online platforms have become sites for creative invention and identity building.