Museum admissions also bring in funds, and tourists have been a big part of the museum’s survival, Farago said. He noted that ...

The statues were looted in the mid 1960s from the ruins of a temple in northeast Thailand. The ones at the Asian Art Museum ...

JoeSam. We all started out black, 2004. Courtesy of Museum of the AfricanDiaspora (MoAD) On Saturday, Dec. 13, MoAD will have a public celebration starting at 2 p.m. Continuum “moves through key eras ...

After years of research revealed they had been illegally removed in the 1960s, four ancient bronze sculptures were ...

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum returns four ancient Thai bronzes to Thailand, ending their possession since the 1960s.

Robert Flynn Johnson, the museums’ curator emeritus, summed it up pretty well when he called the museums’ situation “a state of Orwellian dysfunction.” And that’s just the news that’s been reported.

Conceived in the wake of the pandemic and racial reckonings that have held a harsh light to inequities within museum practices, the new Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) is building ...

When Thomas Campbell took the job of director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF)—in effect trading places with Max Hollein, who took his former job leading the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Disguise as Dancefloor, by Joe Namy (b. 1978, Detroit). Performance, Somerset House, London, 2023. Photograph by Anne Tetzlaff. Spiral, 2016, by Sophia Al-Maria (b. 1983), music by Fatima Al Qadiri (b ...