Julia Halperin

Franklin Sirmans reveals major Pamm purchase

Stan Douglas’s epic video, jointly acquired with Lacma, is first step in growing collection

US collectors dash to Cuba

Diplomatic thaw draws collectors and curators to the Caribbean island

Pace launches art and tech branch

New artists bring digital element

How the Barnes Foundation is reinventing itself

Philadelphia-based private museum lays plans to show non-Western art, commission contemporary works and open up to scholars

Michael Govan’s advice to collectors: buy a curator lunch

Lacma director contributes to Frick Collection's panel on the long history collecting contemporary art

Kinky Calder gets restored in time for UK debut

Artist’s grandsons waived fees to conserve his largest work, which goes on show at Tate Modern this week

Musée d’Orsay chief curator trades Paris for Philly to take up post at Barnes Foundation

The institution has named Sylvie Patry as its new chief curator and deputy director for collections and exhibitions

Canadian Prime Minister pledges to boost cultural investment

Arts professionals are generally optimistic about the country’s new leadership—although some worry promised changes could be too little too late

Bible museum founders may have illicit antiquities from Iraq

Federal investigators have seized more than 200 cuneiform tablets imported from Israel by the Green family

Prizesnews

Guggenheim’s 2016 Hugo Boss Prize shortlist is heavy on performance and video

The finalists for the $100,000 include Cuban activist Tania Bruguera, video artist Mark Leckey and choreographer Ralph Lemon

Gallerists at Frieze are saluting their pioneering forebears

Stands pay tribute to dealers who were ahead of their time

UK debut for Calder's most complex mobile

The 12-foot sculpture has not left Brazil since Calder gave it to the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil in São Paulo, in 1948

What you can buy at Frieze for less than £10,000

Contrary to popular belief, it's not all about seven-figure sums

Cornelia Parker to create roof-top commission for the Met

British artist will have to overcome vertigo for first major museum project in New York

It's Pop art but not as we know it

Artists from Brazil to Japan are emerging from the shadows at Frieze and in museums

The Broad: as big as its founders’ influence

The art in Los Angeles’ new private museum is as titanic as the funding

Competition to design Qatar’s Art Mill heats up

Established names as well as young designers among the 26 firms chosen for longlist

Performers tell museums to get their act together on fees

Institutions are spending millions on spaces for performance but some curators are “surprised they have to pay live art performers at all”

Getty becomes first museum to restitute Armenian art removed during genocide

The institution will get to keep the brilliantly illuminated gospel pages in its collection after legal settlement

The Broad: a first look

Highly anticipated LA museum opens this weekend with star works from its collection, including Kusama's Infinity Room and ten pieces by Jeff Koons

Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening

Every gallery will be open to the public for the first time in 50 years

Scottish museum buys 17th-century Le Marchand ivories

Huguenot carver came to Edinburgh after facing persecution in his native France