Museums & galleries

Wasp venom, crude oil: Britain’s Turner Prize finalists extract art from environment

(Clockwise from top left) Turner Prize contenders Kira Freije, Simeon Barclay, Marguerite Humeau, and Tanoa Sasraku are exhibiting at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.

Star Wars fans and art lovers line up for new George Lucas museum in Los Angeles

The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opened on Sept 22 in Los Angeles, California.

British Museum bans photos of Bayeux Tapestry as crowds linger

A camera operator videos a section of the Bayeux Tapestry during the press preview at the British Museum in London on Sept 7, 2026.

Two Germans arrested for Louvre stunt in Mona Lisa hall

Museum officials are more than usually alert these days after a spate of heists at French museums and galleries.

Monets unseen by public emerge from billionaire family’s home for Paris auction

A visitor walks past Claude Monet’s “Iris” on display at Sotheby’s auction house in Paris.

‘We love Singapore’: Why Japanese collective teamLab keeps making works here

The Supper House team that brought teamLab’s solo Infinite Existence to Singapore includes curator Yu Ke Dong (Left) and creative director Ashley Chiam.

Keys to the past: National Museum’s revamped Singapore History Gallery reopening on Oct 10

Huge Van Gogh collection reunited for first time since 1984

A visitor viewing the paintings (from left) Madame Ginoux, Cafe Terrace at Night, Portrait of Joseph-Michel Ginoux, and a preliminary study of The Potato Eaters by Vincent Van Gogh at the Kroeller-Mueller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.

Beyond Pop art: Sweeping retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein show at Whitney reframes his work

Artist Alex Da Corte, left, with curator Meg Onli, right, who are mounting the Whitney Museum of American Art’s exhibition, “Roy Lichtenstein: Like New,” stand with exhibit panels at a studio on Aug 17, 2026. The show, which opens Oct. 11, will bring together a vast swath of Lichtenstein’s work, whose last New York retrospective was some 33 years ago.

Not just the Louvre: Museums across France are ripe targets for thieves

A French police officer stands in front of the entrance of the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, south of France, on Sept 8.

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