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As calls grow for the return of objects acquired during the colonial era, the assessment of claims requires an independent process

The discovery of an engraved bone in Germany offers yet more evidence that our distant cousins were creatively minded

The privatisation of public space in UK cities means that artists are being made to feel increasingly unwelcome

The disappointing bronze figure raises the difficult question of what a well-dressed statue should wear these days

The sale at auction raises complex questions about who owns the internet today

Union drives have accelerated during the pandemic, but museum workers have been frustrated with management for years, write Dana Kopel and Maxwell L. Anderson

The artist has partnered up with WeTransfer to create a digital version of the Abramovic Method, a series of exercises that will test your patience to its limit

The museum has agreed to give back two plaques in its collection that were taken illegally from Nigeria after 1960. Why now?

With mass tourism poised to return, have local politicians and cultural leaders finally worked out how to manage the crowds? 

Mars has never seemed closer, with rovers spamming us with photos from its surface

With the government waging its ‘culture war’, the independence of national museums is at stake, write Chris Smith and Margot Finn

Long thought lost by scholars, a spectacular silver gilt monstrance by Luigi Valadier has now been tracked down to a Central American basilica

The appeal to save Britain’s oldest place of manufacture has been rejected and the foundry will become a boutique hotel. How could Historic England have let this happen?

The German artist’s greatest work was himself – so marking his centenary makes for a curatorial conundrum

Installing a floor in the Colosseum will make the ruin less familiar – but may help us understand the original experience of the building

The mysterious affliction usually only assails art buffs in Florence – but with many museums finally set to reopen, will visitors start dropping like flies?

Hanging a plastic skeleton of Napoleon’s favourite horse above his tomb may not be as wildly inappropriate as it seems

The City of London has approved its own plans to demolish eight historic buildings in the Fleet Street conservation area – so what real protection exists for the city’s heritage?

The former imperial capital is due for another reinvention – but in shaking up the urban plan, the Indian government faces accusations that it is merely rebuilding the city in its own image