Mid-morning January 7, 2025, a fire broke out in the Santa Monica Mountains. By the noon hour, fanned by intense winds with gusts up to 100 miles an hour, the fire had reached the perimeter of the Getty Villa property. Thus began a new odyssey for Getty, as we defended the Villa from the flames.
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When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) opened its David Geffen Galleries on April 19, visitors were met with works from vastly different cultures and centuries hung together without the hierarchies that have long shaped how Western museums arrange their collections.
In the late hours of March 22, four thieves broke through the front door of the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, a private museum housed in a Neoclassical villa outside Parma in Italy.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing was built over the course of the 1970s to showcase the world-class collections of art from sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania, and the Ancient Americas assembled by Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller.
At Bowery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the New Museum has stood since 2007, a 13-foot aluminum sculpture of two embracing figures now greets visitors before they step inside the recently renovated building.
Wherever you go in the United States of America, you aren't very far away from art. From intimate galleries to massive world-class collections, art museums worth visiting can be found across the country. In this special roundup, we are highlighting the best art museums in every state, plus the District of Columbia.
The Louvre has weathered both revolutions and occupations over the centuries. Yet, the past few months have exposed a different kind of vulnerability in its leaking pipes, aging cameras, and institutional drift. The world’s most-visited museum is struggling to find steady footing in the wake of a series of mishaps and misdemeanors.
In late January, the Smithsonian announced that it would return a Shiva Nataraja statue and two other Chola Dynasty bronzes to India from the National Museum of Asian Art under a “shared stewardship” policy introduced in 2022.
Thailand’s first major institution dedicated to international contemporary art, Dib Bangkok, made a grand debut with a sophisticated crowd of museum directors, curators, collectors, critics, and artists attending the opening celebration on December 21, 2025. Guided by Purat “Chang” Osathanugrah, a prominent Thai business leader and educator, the museum preserves the legacy of his late father, Petch Osathanugrah, whose distinguished art collection forms its core.
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape everything from consumerism to creative expression, the world’s first museum dedicated entirely to the exhibition of AI-generated art is set to open this spring. DATALAND will offer visitors a multisensory journey through machine-created worlds in each of its five galleries at a Frank Gehry-designed complex in downtown Los Angeles.
