British Museum did not remove Palestine from labels due to pressure campaign, museum sources say—as backlash continues • The new New Museum: now with twice the space • Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts

Listen to today's episode

Today's stories:

British Museum did not remove Palestine from labels due to pressure campaign, museum sources say—as backlash continues
More than 200 cultural figures, including musician Brian Eno, writer Laleh Khalili, and former Central Saint Martins head Jeremy Till, signed an...

The new New Museum: now with twice the space
New York’s New Museum will unveil an $82 million expansion on 21 March after four years of construction, adding a new 60,000-square-foot building...

Tate Liverpool Director Helen Legg Appointed to Lead Royal Academy of Arts
Helen Legg, director of Tate Liverpool since 2018, has been appointed artistic director of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and will begin in...

Congress Moves to Expand Holocaust Art Restitution Claims
The US House of Representatives approved an extension of the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, a 2016 law intended to help families...

What Do We Really Think of the New New Museum?
Hyperallergic published an editors’ roundtable reacting to the New Museum’s reopened and expanded building in New York, designed by OMA (Shohei...

Dizzy, Nauseous Columbus Art Museum Workers Issue Complaints About Chemical Fumes
Workers at the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio filed complaints with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after reporting...

Man Causes ‘Catastrophic Damage’ to Chihuly Glass Museum in Seattle
Seattle police say a 40-year-old man caused “catastrophic damage” at the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum late Monday night, resulting in an...

Major Corporate Sponsor Withdraws from Sydney Biennale, Citing Alleged Hate Speech
PwC withdrew as a “strategic partner” of the Sydney Biennale’s 25th edition after allegations of antisemitic hate speech connected to a...

Paris Dealer Kamel Mennour Buys Galerie Malingue, Founded Over Five Decades Ago
Paris dealer Kamel Mennour has acquired Galerie Malingue and will take over its 4,300-square-foot showroom at 26 Avenue Matignon in Paris’s...

Remembering Axel Burrough, Kazumasa Nagai, and Éliane Radigue
Hyperallergic’s weekly “In Memoriam” column (published Wednesday afternoons) commemorated multiple recent deaths in the art world, including...

—The Daily Art Download