Visitors to the contemporary art museum rose by 3.4% to almost 6 million
In further news: Radical Matriarchy protest lack of diversity at Washington’s National Gallery of Art; Met to return stolen ancient coffin to Egypt
In further news: calls to close tax loopholes for art-filled ‘freeports’; Elmgreen & Dragset memorial to gay Holocaust victims vandalized
In further news: New Museum workers vote to unionize; Amanda Schmitt appeals dismissal of Artforum suit
As the Easter Islanders demand that the British Museum return their statue, it’s time to reconsider the meaning of ‘global artworks’
Rereading Mark Fisher with the publication of his collected writings; Olivia Laing’s Crudo makes the NYT’s ‘100 Notable Books’
At the Royal Academy of Arts, an exhibition spans the histories of the Pacific
‘We are just a body. You, the British people, have our soul’
In further news: Syria’s National Museum in Damascus reopens; and a protest at the British Museum’s protest-themed show
In further news: Pro-refugee obelisk to stay in Kassel, Natural History Museum under fire over Saudi event
In further news: UK class gap impacting young people’s engagement with the arts; Uffizi goes digital; British Museum helps return Iraqi antiquities
