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The museum says that Why Architects and Swinerton Builders “failed to meet even the minimum museum-quality standards”

The Japanese artist, whose latest show opens in San Francisco this month, explains the connection between his colourful aesthetic and darker influences, including natural disasters and the pandemic

The Chinese American artist, who died at age 62 in relative obscurity, is the subject of an illuminating exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco

Twenty-one museums across the city will be free during the inaugural San Francisco Free Museum Weekend on 3-4 December

Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco

The pandemic-delayed expansion features an interactive exhibition by the Japanese contemporary art collective that was designed to disorient

Dating from the ninth and tenth centuries, the objects are thought to have been looted from sacred sites in the late 1960s

Museum director says Justice Department’s legal case only served “to cloud the respectful and serious process of deaccession and repatriation”

Though many institutions are suffering from serious reductions in revenue, collections expanded via restricted acquisition funds

Amid the turmoil of the pandemic and the recent elections, US institutions with Tibetan Buddhist holdings respond with mindfulness events

Federal attorneys file a civil complaint, but museum says repatriation was already in the works

The artist, who survived a sexual assault, has created a 1,000 sq ft triptych that explores the healing process