Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning.

Last fall, with the Medici Chapel in Florence operating on reduced hours because of Covid-19, scientists and restorers completed a secret experiment: They unleashed grime-eating bacteria on the artist’s masterpiece marbles.

Rescuing Artists of Vision

The unrivaled Art Preserve in Sheboygan, Wis., opening soon, is collecting and showing artist-built environments found along rural byways, in city lofts — and even at Manhattan’s Chelsea Hotel.

At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble

With a survey in Europe and stark new sculptures in New York, he is bringing to the fore darker, more personal themes. “I’m an undertaker,” he said. “I don’t do the uplift thing.”

Smithsonian Museums Set to Reopen by September

The Cooper Hewitt will be the first, opening its doors on June 10. Others will follow through August.

Louvre Gets Its First Female Leader in 228 Years

Laurence des Cars, who will become the president of the world’s most visited museum in September, shares some of her plans in an interview.

A Self-Styled ‘Troublemaker’ Creates a Different Paris Museum

Contemporary art owned by the billionaire François Pinault is displayed beneath the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce and frescoes of a colonialist past.

Brooklyn Museum Employees Take Steps Toward a Union

The new union would include curators, conservators, gift shop workers and others, as part of the U.A.W.

Museum Shows With Stories to Tell

From masterpieces looted by the Nazis to maritime paintings and works by gay artists, a wide variety of art in a wide variety of media will be on display.

Inside the Long-Lost Brickyards That Built N.Y.C.

A century ago, brickmaking along the Hudson River was thriving. Then the industry vanished.

Terence Riley, Architectural Force in the Museum World, Dies at 66

He was the chief architectural curator at MoMA, overseeing shows and the museum’s massive redesign, then moving on to the Miami art scene.

America’s Wild Horses, the AT&T Deal and Fungi That Tells a Story: The Week in Narrated Articles

Five articles from around The Times, narrated just for you.

Disabled People Fear Being Left Behind as U.K. Culture Venues Reopen

Some disabled people have spent a year devouring shows online, and they want continued access. Some theaters are promising to provide it, but fears persist.

‘It’s About Time.’ Museums Make Bids for Their Communities.

Around the country, museums are accelerating efforts to bring in larger, more diverse local audiences.

Art Created 100 Years Apart, Linked by Trauma, Offers Solace

A museum founded to ease the pain of loss helps give perspective and build resilience in these troubled times.

In Denver, the Pandemic Deepens Artistic Collaboration

It took a curator of Native Arts to bring two Indigenous artists together, but their works involve the contributions of many others.

10 Ways for Museums to Survive and Thrive in a Post-Covid World

That the pandemic did damage to museums is unquestioned but their resilience has been remarkable.

The Met Changes Course

A remarkably intimate documentary intended to chronicle the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 150th anniversary ends up filming one of the most challenging years of its history, from the inside.