The University of Chicago Chronicle

Objects & Voices exhibition foregrounds Smart Museum’s collection and the craft of curation

For the second time in four months, the Smart Museum of Art is featuring artworks from its permanent collection throughout its entire space. Following the success of the fall show Carved Cast and ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

A Private Collection Burnishes the Bowdoin Museum of Art

Since the Bowdoin College Museum of Art received 100 extraordinary objects from the Wyvern Collection as a long-term loan, the artworks have become "an integral part of the day-to-day life of the ...
UVA Today

Kluge-Ruhe Collection Returning Sacred Objects to Australian Indigenous Communities

A special ceremony held last week in Australia celebrated 17 sacred objects from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia being repatriated to the Arrernte, Warlpiri and ...
The Art Newspaper

More than 1,000 objects in the Met’s collection linked to alleged traffickers and looters, investigation finds

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has more than 1,000 objects in its collection that have ties to people allegedly involved in crimes related to the antiquities trade, according to a new ...
The Art Newspaper

British Museum hires curator to research history of its collection, also covering contested objects such as the Parthenon Marbles

The British Museum (BM), which is facing mounting claims for contested objects, now has a specific curator responsible for researching the history of its 267-year-old collection. Isobel MacDonald was ...
Yahoo News UK

Queen Victoria drawing and flight system among over 1,700 missing museum objects

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A drawing of Queen Victoria and an aircraft navigational system are among the more than 1,700 items that are absent from museums ...