The Art Newspaper

A brief history of the British Museum's central London home

In March 1958, British television viewers were treated to a museal experiment. For the second episode of his new series, Is Art Necessary?, Kenneth Clark, then chair of the Arts Council, took Henry ...

The Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum after a secret journey from France

After almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil. In scenes like a heist movie in reverse, the priceless Medieval artwork was spirited into the British Museum on ...
Agence France-Presse on MSN

British Museum shows Bayeux Tapestry unfurled after 'titanic' efforts

The British Museum on Friday revealed some sections of the Bayeux Tapestry a week after its arrival, as the curator of the forthcoming exhibition told AFP he was "relieved" the fragile embroidery ...
NPR

The director of the British Museum resigned after over 1,500 its objects went missing

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Martin Bailey of The Art Newspaper about thefts at the British Museum that led to the director's resignation. The director of the British Museum is out. Hartwig Fischer ...

11th century Bayeux Tapestry arrives at the British Museum from France

The Bayeux Tapestry, one of the world's greatest artworks, arrived at the British Museum in London Friday after a delicate ...
Artnet

The British Museum Has Put 300,000 Images of Its Most Famous Artworks Online So You Can Play Around With Them

With much of world on lockdown, now’s a good time to get around to tasks you’ve long putting off. For London’s British Museum, that includes adding objects and images to its online collections ...
China Daily Global EditionOpinion

British Museum obliged to return stolen antiques to their owners

The theft has renewed calls for the museum to return treasures stolen from other countries. For long, Britain has cited the ...
Hyperallergic

The Sun Is Setting on the British Museum

One of the Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum in London (photo by Helen Simonssonvia via The large-scale theft of cultural objects from the British Museum by one of its employees, and the failure ...
Artnet

Historic $1.2 Billion Donation Approved for the British Museum

The Sir Percival David Foundation will permanently donate its £1 billion ($1.27 billion) Chinese ceramics collection to the British Museum, following regulatory approval to amend its governing ...
Hyperallergic

How the Labels in the British Museum's Africa Galleries Evade Responsibility

This caption in the British Museum’s Africa galleries summaries briefly the political history leading up to the sacking of Benin City in 1897 by British forces. Although certainly constrained by the ...
CNN

British Museum partly closed after fired employee broke in and shut down IT systems

The British Museum, the country’s most popular tourist attraction, was partially closed to the public on Saturday after an employee who had been fired broke in and shut down computer systems, museum ...
Opinion

British Museum director on Bayeux Tapestry loan: 'A gesture of confidence, friendship and, above all, trust'

OP-ED. France has just delivered the Bayeux Tapestry to the United Kingdom, where it will remain on display until 2027. The unprecedented gesture crowns 1,000 years of shared history, writes Nicholas ...