Julia Halperin

Curators' tour of the new Tate Modern

As gallery attracts more than one million visitors in opening month, Catherine Wood, Achim Borchardt-Hume and Matthew Gale pick the works that take pride of place

Garage opens Russia’s most extensive programme for disabled visitors

This year’s programme to focus on increasing access for the Moscow museum's deaf audience

Macaws, crowds and an expanded canon: inside the new Tate Modern

Rehang of the collection places unfamiliar names alongside established ones while performance takes centre stage<br>

Obama library architects chosen

Husband-and-wife team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien designed the Barnes Foundation’s new Philadelphia home and the former American Folk Art Museum in New York

Kids commission the darnedest things: New York high-schoolers choose public art for Long Island City

Brooklyn-based artist Mika Tajima work looks like a hot tub with plumes of coloured vapour that change hues based on the fluctuating price of gold

Fairsnews

Art Basel puts photography in the frame

Wolfgang Tillmans to get Beyeler’s first show of photos, as collectors buy major works at the fair

Made for each other: Moholy-Nagy and the Guggenheim rotunda

The Hungarian law student and aspiring poet turned Bauhaus artist is an ideal choice for the spiralling architectural space

US Senate committee submits private museum findings to Internal Revenue Service

Limited opening hours, visits by appointment only and founders’ out-of-hours access to collections transferred to non-profit foundations are among senators' concerns

A curator's tour of the new SFMoMA

Three curators pick under-the-radar works they are excited to have on show at the newly expanded museum

SFMoMA shows off its hard-won treasures

The San Francisco museum reopens with something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue-chip

Don’t bank on it: New York artist’s memorial to financial failures comes to Wall Street

Michael Mandiberg has recorded the logos of more than 500 banks that closed during the recession for his installation FDIC Insured

Furniture retailer West Elm has designs on opening New York gallery

Company is collaborating with Uprise Art to create high-end store with contemporary art space

Fairsnews

Genius at work: New York celebrates its MacArthur winner

Nicole Eisenman, who is showing new works this week, on the “weird and wonderful” inspiration the city provides

Creating value around women artists: the chief curator’s view

Moca’s Helen Molesworth explains why the gender imbalance in museums persists and what can be done to remove it

What does a female artist have to do to get a major solo show?

Statistics show that less than a third of the biggest exhibitions in the US go to women <br>

Artnews

Twice the size and seven storeys high: the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is ready for lift-off

Galleries filled with blue-chip gifts plus highlights of the Fisher Collection will greet visitors when museum reopens <br>

An interview with Connie Butler: curator and advocate for the overlooked and under-known

As the Hammer Museum secures a donation of important collection of street photography by the Japanese artist Daido Moriyama, its chief curator speaks to us about how she’s working to build the collection and exhibition programme

USC Seven artists get their ‘graduate’ shows in Los Angeles

New alternative space PSSST will organise exhibitions of students who dropped out of the Roski School of Art and Design MFA programme in protest last year

US museums spent $5bn to expand as economy shrank

Glitzy buildings mean more visitors—but they could conceal a financial timebomb