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Mummies and other human remains held in UK museums raise serious ethical questions, warn scholars

A major investigation has revealed that UK museums, universities, and local authorities hold more than 263,000 human remains, including mummies, skeletons, and skulls. Of these, approximately 37,000 originate from overseas, largely from former British colonies, often acquired without consent. The findings have sparked intense criticism from scholars and curators who argue that the sheer scale of these collections reflects a distressing colonial legacy and necessitates a systemic shift toward repatriation and more ethical storage practices.

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Art Notes: AVA Gallery's 18th Annual High School Exhibition

The AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, recently opened its 18th annual high school exhibition, featuring over 100 artworks from students across 14 Upper Valley schools. The exhibition showcases a diverse range of media, including ceramics, digital collage, and painting, with awards granted across multiple disciplines. While some critics noted a shift toward more traditional classroom assignments compared to previous years, the show remains a vital platform for young artists to express personal and social commentary.

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RED BANK: NEW GALLERIA GALLERY OPENS DOORS

Amelchenko Gallery has officially opened its doors in Red Bank, New Jersey, relocating from Sea Bright to the Galleria complex on Bridge Avenue. The gallery celebrated its arrival with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a reception for its inaugural exhibition, "Reel Icons," featuring the work of New York-based artist Ginette Laboz. Laboz utilizes a unique pointillist technique, applying paint with pastry tools to create large-scale reinterpretations of iconic cinematic moments from films like "Pulp Fiction" and "When Harry Met Sally."

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museum exhibitions schedule Mar 2, 2026 visibility 14 link 1 artist

Blockbuster show on ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II opens in London

The blockbuster exhibition "Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs" has opened in London near Battersea Power Station, featuring over 180 ancient Egyptian treasures. Produced by Neon Global in collaboration with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the show includes the coffin of Ramses II, animal mummies, and a VR experience. The tour has already visited cities like Paris and Sydney, serving as a major international cultural ambassador for Egypt.

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Turkey’s heritage power grab: new law threatens Istanbul’s opposition-run cultural sites

The Turkish government has enacted a new law allowing the central state to seize historic properties from local municipalities, specifically targeting sites originally endowed to Ottoman-era foundations. This legislation directly impacts Istanbul, where Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s administration has spent years restoring nearly 1,000 heritage sites and converting neglected spaces into vibrant museums, libraries, and contemporary art venues. Critics argue that the state-run General Directorate of Foundations lacks the expertise to manage these cultural hubs and may instead lease them out or close them entirely.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 18, 2026 visibility 13 link 1 artist

'Cursed!': Toledo Museum of Art to host exhibit exploring the power of ancient magic in the Mediterranean world

The Toledo Museum of Art will host a major exhibition titled 'Cursed! The Power of Magic in the Ancient World' from March 21 to July 5. The show features 75 objects spanning two millennia, including Egyptian artwork, Mesopotamian sculptures, and Greek and Roman relics, exploring themes like protective magic, communication with gods, and magic in daily life.

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Art Professor Christopher Richards Honored by Museum at FIT Exhibition

Brooklyn College Associate Professor of Art Christopher Richards is being honored with a major exhibition at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). The exhibition, "Art X Fashion," is directly inspired by his scholarship on African and global fashion, exploring the relationship between fashion and fine art through over 140 objects from the museum's collection.

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article policy schedule Feb 12, 2026 visibility 13 link 3 artists

UNT Gives No Reason for Sudden Closure of Victor Quiñonez Show

The University of North Texas abruptly cancelled the solo exhibition "Ni de Aqui, Ni de Allá" by artist Victor Quiñonez in its College of Visual Art & Design Gallery just nine days after its opening. The university covered the gallery windows with brown paper, removed all promotional material from its website and social media, and informed the artist via a misspelled email that it had terminated its loan agreement with Boston University Art Galleries, which originated the show. The artist was not notified in advance and learned of the closure from students.

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person people schedule Feb 9, 2026 visibility 14 link 2 artists

Philadelphia Museum of Art Names Katherine Anne Paul as the Newly Appointed Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has appointed Katherine Anne Paul as the Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art, a role named after the pioneering scholar and curator. Paul previously served as Assistant and Associate Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art at the PMA from 2002 to 2008, and most recently held the Virginia and William M. Spencer III Curator of Asian Art position at the Birmingham Museum of Art, where she also served as Lead Curator. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has curated notable exhibitions including "Silver & Ceremony from Southern Asia 1830–1930" and "Expanding Darshan: Manjari Sharma, To See and Be Seen."

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 6, 2026 visibility 12 link 1 artist

Opening Gala for DIVA

The Denver Art Museum is hosting the opening gala for "DIVA," a touring exhibition originally created by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The event is supported by premier sponsors Joy and Chris Dinsdale, with additional funding from several prominent donors and organizations including U.S. Bank and the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 22, 2026 visibility 18 link 5 artists, 1 gallery

Art Museum Announces Spring 2026 Exhibitions

The Syracuse University Art Museum has announced three new exhibitions for spring 2026: “Possible Worlds: 20 Years of the Wynn Newhouse Awards,” “Afterimages: Legacies of the Thirteenth Amendment,” and “Undressed: The Nude in Dutch Art, circa 1550-1800.” These shows will join the permanent collection exhibition “Human/Environment: 4,000 Years of Art” and an Art Wall Project by artist Bhen Alan. The exhibitions explore themes of disability, race, and the human body, with curator talks and programming scheduled throughout the semester.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 19, 2026 visibility 11 link 2 artists

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California

The exhibition 'Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California' will run from September 18, 2026, to January 17, 2027, at BAMPFA. It traces the flow and flourishing of quilts during the Second Great Migration (1940–1970), when approximately five million African Americans moved from the rural South to the North and West, with hundreds of thousands arriving in California carrying quilts as containers of ancestral memory and cultural survival. The show features more than 80 artworks organized across several themes, highlighting repurposed work clothes, improvisational piecing, and pattern-based quilting by migrants from Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. Works by contemporary artists show how these traditions remain alive today.

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Louvre closes again due to staff strikes

Staff at the Louvre museum in Paris staged another strike on Monday, January 19, the ninth such action in a month, forcing the museum to close completely for the third time since mid-December. The strike, voted unanimously by 350 employees, concerns pay, working conditions, and infrastructure, with unions demanding salary alignment with other national museums and monuments, and calling for the €666m new entrance project to be dropped in favor of basic maintenance. The closure costs the museum about €400,000 per day, and negotiations with France's culture ministry are scheduled for January 29.

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Remembering the fight for equality: Tuskegee Airmen project enters next chapter at Cleveland History Center

The Cleveland History Center has opened a new exhibition honoring local Tuskegee Airmen, featuring hand-drawn portraits by students from the Cleveland School of the Arts. The exhibition, part of the Cleveland Heroes Project, is displayed at the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum and runs through April 30. It highlights airmen with Northeast Ohio roots, including 2nd Lt. Gilbert Cargill, Capt. Erwin Bernard Lawrence Jr., and Cpl. Howard Arthur Tibbs.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 16, 2026 visibility 16 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Slawn Transforms Saatchi Yates Gallery Into A Working Studio

London-based artist Slawn has transformed Saatchi Yates gallery into a live working studio for his latest exhibition, titled *Slawn’s Studio*, running from 22 January to 22 February. The gallery functions as his day-to-day workspace, where paintings are produced and reworked, music is composed and recorded, and collaborators drift in and out, creating an atmosphere of spontaneity and shared energy. Most works were made during a residency in the space, and the exhibition evolves over the month. The project has attracted leading collectors and figures from music, sport, and public life.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 10, 2026 visibility 16 link 7 artists, 2 galleries

Buena Vista Artist Family Prominently Featured in Denver-Area Art Exhibition

Buena Vista area artists Bob Gray and his daughter Jamie Gray have been selected for the upcoming exhibition "Family Ties: Continuing the Creative Legacy" at the Arvada Center Galleries in metro Denver, running from January 15 to March 26, 2026. They are one of two local families featured, alongside the Strawn family (Ben, Daniel, and their late parents Bernice and Mel). The show includes twenty creative families, highlighting how artistic identity is shaped within family contexts. Both Grays work with wood: Bob creates turned-aspen vessels inspired by local landscapes, while Jamie produces abstract wall sculptures using beeswax, pigment, and hand-carved lines.

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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art returns three sculptures to Cambodia

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has voluntarily returned three sculptures to the Cambodian government after an internal provenance investigation determined the objects were likely removed from Cambodia during the country’s civil war (1967-75). The returned artifacts include a tenth-century sandstone head of Harihara, a tenth-century sandstone sculpture of the goddess Uma, and a bronze statue of Prajnaparamita from around 1200. The museum’s director, Chase F. Robinson, stated that strong evidence linked the pieces to problematic dealers and a context of war and violence, and that no documentation supported their lawful export. The objects were donated to the NMAA by Arthur M. Sackler and Gilbert and Ann Kinney without proper provenance papers.

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Art Galleries Emanate a Warm Glow in Winter

Winter on Cape Cod presents a challenge for local artists and galleries, as off-season landscapes often go unsold. However, several gallery owners are embracing the season with experimental programming: Liz Carney of Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown is hosting a group show titled "Long Blue Shadow" and planning artist residencies and a "Knitney Biennial." Gary Marotta Fine Art and Schoolhouse Gallery remain open on weekends, while Susie Nielsen's Farm Projects in Wellfleet features a group exhibition of works on paper. These gallerists find that winter visitors are more engaged, fostering richer conversations and a stronger sense of community.

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Barbican announces In Other Worlds, the first UK solo exhibition by Liam Young

The Barbican has announced In Other Worlds, the first UK solo exhibition by artist, director and BAFTA-nominated producer Liam Young, set to open from 21 May to 6 September 2026. The immersive exhibition will feature films, costumes, miniature models, comics and sound-led environments exploring speculative futures shaped by climate change and emerging technologies. A new commission, World Machine (2026), will serve as the centrepiece, imagining a planetary-scale AI system where nature and computation coexist. Other works include Planet City (2021), The Great Endeavour (2023), and After the End (2024), co-authored with Aboriginal actor Natasha Wanganeen.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 28, 2025 visibility 11 link 1 artist

Barbican Immersive announces 2026 exhibition from Liam Young

Barbican Immersive, the touring exhibition arm of London's Barbican Centre, has announced its 2026 exhibition "In Other Worlds," the first UK solo show by artist, director and BAFTA-nominated producer Liam Young. The exhibition will debut at the Barbican Centre from 21 May to 6 September 2026 as part of the Barbican's Summer season, before touring internationally. It features films, costumes, props, miniature models, comics, tapestries, and soundscapes that imagine hopeful futures amid environmental and technological challenges. Highlights include the world premiere of Young's film "World Machine" (2026), which envisions an AI-powered planetary supercomputer, alongside earlier works such as "Planet City" (2021), "The Great Endeavour" (2023), and "After the End" (2024).

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Louvre closes gallery ‘until further notice’ citing structural problems

The Musée du Louvre in Paris has closed its Campana Gallery, which houses nine rooms of ancient Greek ceramics, after a technical report revealed structural weaknesses in beams supporting the second floor of the Sully Wing. The gallery will remain closed 'until further notice' as a precaution, and 65 staff members will be relocated, though the artworks will not be moved. The closure comes amid the Louvre's ambitious New Renaissance renovation project, announced by French President Emmanuel Macron, which includes a new visitor entrance under the Perrault Colonnade by 2031 and is now valued at €1.15bn.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 6, 2025 visibility 11 link 3 artists

INTERSTATE art exhibition set to open this week

Central Washington University's Sara Spurgeon Gallery is hosting a national juried exhibition titled “INTERSTATE: Where I-90 meets I-82,” opening November 6 in Ellensburg. Juror Alexis L. Silvia, Curatorial Assistant at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, selected works by 46 artists from across the United States, including Brandin Barón, Neil Berkowitz, Shivani Bhalla, and others. The exhibition runs through December 6, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. following a 4 p.m. presentation.

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Heritage experts call for international task force to plan Palmyra rebuild

Heritage experts, antiquities officials, and Syrian community members convened at a conference organized by the University of Lausanne and the Aliph foundation in Switzerland, marking the first comprehensive international meeting on Palmyra since the fall of Bashar Al Assad's regime in 2024. The group issued recommendations including the creation of an international expert task force to work toward removing Palmyra from the UNESCO List of World Heritage in Danger, and outlined three key priorities: rehabilitating the looted and damaged Palmyra museum, restoring artefacts currently held at the Damascus Museum, and repairing the foot bridge to the site. Aliph executive director Valery Freland aims to begin work in January 2026.

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gavel restitution schedule Oct 29, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist

In historic move, MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston has agreed to return two 1857 ceramic jars by David Drake, an enslaved Black potter, to his living descendants. One vessel will remain on loan to the museum for at least two years, while the other—the "Poem Jar"—has been purchased back by the MFA from the heirs for an undisclosed sum, now carrying a "certificate of ethical ownership." The museum acknowledges that Drake created the works involuntarily and without compensation, marking the first time the MFA has resolved a claim for art wrongfully taken under U.S. slavery.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 29, 2025 visibility 13 link 1 artist

“Young Lords in Chicago” Reminds Us, the Struggle for Social Justice Only Ends if We Concede

The DePaul Art Museum is presenting "Tengo Lincoln Park en mi corazón: Young Lords in Chicago," an exhibition that chronicles the history of the Young Lords Organization (YLO), a Puerto Rican street gang turned socio-political movement founded by José "Cha Cha" Jiménez. Through artifacts like Jiménez's purple beret, newly-commissioned murals by Sam Kirk, and a range of ephemera, the show traces the YLO's fight against displacement and for social justice in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, linking past struggles to present-day activism.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 16, 2025 visibility 17 link 10 artists, 1 gallery

The Chateau Show offers a stylish exhibition full of surprises for artistic insiders

Each October, the Chateau Show takes over the historic Aldredge House on Swiss Avenue in Dallas, a Gilded Age home built in 1915-17. Founded by artists Joel Murray and Clint Bargers, the four-year-old exhibition invites a select crowd of curators, museum directors, and art world insiders to view envelope-pushing works by emerging, mid-career, and established artists. This year’s edition features 21 participants, including Alicia Eggert, Luke Harnden, Virginia L. Montgomery, and Arthur Peña, with installations ranging from site-specific pieces to more commercial works. The show is free and open by appointment from Oct. 19-25.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 13, 2025 visibility 29 link 3 artists, 11 galleries

Putting young galleries at the front: Frieze London’s bold strategy holds

Frieze London's 22nd edition in October 2025 will retain a bold floor plan debuted in 2024 that places emerging galleries near the main entrance, pushing blue-chip heavyweights like Gagosian and David Zwirner further inside. Fair director Eva Langret confirms the layout is permanent, citing overwhelmingly positive feedback and renewed energy. The Focus section for galleries under 12 years old gets a boost, with a rotating system ensuring fresh stands near the entrance each year. A new curated section, Echoes in the Present, explores artistic links between West Africa, Brazil, and their diasporas. Meanwhile, Frieze Masters, dedicated to pre-20th-century art, will be run by new director Emanuela Tarizzo.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 18, 2025 visibility 10 link 3 artists

Piecing together ancient Andean stories at Krannert Art Museum

Krannert Art Museum has reopened its reimagined exhibition 'Fragmented Histories: Andean Art before 1600' after a year-long closure, following nearly a decade of collaborative research. Co-curators Allyson Purpura and Kasia Szremski worked with pre-contact Andean art historians and Peruvian archaeologists to restore context to looted artifacts from the Fred Olsen Collection, donated in 1967. The exhibition is organized into four themes—Unfinished Stories, The Mobile Life of Objects, Powerful Images, and Object Biographies—and includes digital displays that acknowledge the violent histories of looting and aim to share knowledge with descendant communities in Peru.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 11, 2025 visibility 12 link 3 artists

Figge Art Museum marks 100 years with new exhibition

The Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a new exhibition titled "100 Years of Collecting," opening September 13 and running through January 11, 2026. The show highlights major gifts and donations that have shaped the museum's collection, including American, Haitian, Spanish Colonial, and contemporary works, tracing back to founder Charles August Ficke's initial 334-piece donation in 1925.

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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 8, 2025 visibility 16 link 5 artists, 6 galleries

Sara Stern '17 Opens Latest Solo Exhibition, 'STALL,' at Turley Gallery

Sara Stern, a 2017 alumna of the Visual and Environmental Studies program at Harvard, has opened her fifth solo exhibition, 'STALL,' at Turley Gallery in Hudson, New York. The installation transforms the gallery's interstitial space, The Light Well, into a horse stall featuring a toy theater that plays a video of horseshoe crabs spawning. The exhibition runs from July 19 to September 7, 2025, and includes elements such as straw, a velvet curtain, and an adorned horseshoe crab shell, creating a mise en abyme effect.

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