Architecture
Sydney’s flagship museum is entirely focused on building a costly extension. Why?
Unless the Art Gallery of New South Wales begins to focus more on exhibitions, there is every reason to believe that Sydney Modern will be a gigantic and costly flop
Venice: a city at a cultural crossroads
As the Venice Architecture Biennale opens, the Venetian journalist Enrico Tantucci analyses culture in the city through the Biennale, historic buildings, the Accademia and the Arsenale
Three to see: Venice Architecture Biennale
From a church divided by concrete walls to a dose of Brexit washed down with cups of tea
Massive arts district to launch in 2019 in valley near Beijing
“Eco-city” announced at Venice Architecture Biennale will include a museum, artists’ studios and an art park
In Bruges: sea plastic, Chinese crabs and a Spanish pool take centre stage at triennial
Commissions for the second edition of the Bruges Triennial are closely linked with the city’s famous canals
Virginia University’s $41m kunsthalle aims to bridge town-gown divide
Richmond University's fine arts programmes are amongst highest-ranked in the US
In pictures: Bayreuth's Margravial Opera House reopens to the public
The Unesco World Heritage Site had been closed for restoration since 2012
Monet's urban obsession explored in major new London show
National Gallery exhibition, which includes Rouen cathedral paintings, reveals another side of French Impressionist
Italian far right wants to turn Fascist HQ into mega-museum
The Lega party—which may soon be in power—believes that Italy, through its culture, can lead the world
Collector's Eye: William Lim
The Hong Kong-based architect tells us what art he's bought and why
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art to open in London in September
Mika Rottenberg solo show and Chicago Imagist exhibition in the pipeline
Tretyakov and Rem Koolhaas have designs on Moscow's vast Soviet exhibition space
The Central House of Artists is set to be the largest exhibition venue in Russia
Ellsworth Kelly’s final work—and only building—opens in Texas
Artist donated his design for Austin to the Blanton Museum in 2015, the year he died
Urgent action needed to save Russia’s wooden architecture
Grassroots activists are leading a campaign to preserve the country’s unique, but sadly neglected, built heritage
Mexican architect is youngest-ever designer of Serpentine Pavilion
Frida Escobedo will combine Mexican and British influences for the temporary structure in Hyde Park
Jamie Fobert Architects to transform London's National Portrait Gallery
Firm behind recent expansion of Tate St Ives and Kettle's Yard will lead major £35.5m development
Royal College of Art's new £108m campus gets green light and will focus on art, technology and science
Building designed by Herzog & de Meuron will be a centre for robotics and drone technology
Hayward Gallery’s renovation breathes new life—and brings more daylight—into Brutalist landmark
London gallery celebrates 50th anniversary and reopens with Andreas Gurksy retrospective
Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn in Lake District up for sale
Chinese collector may step in to save the barn, after Arts Council rejects funding bid
South London Gallery’s new Fire Station annexe to open in September
Exhibition spaces and an artist’s studio have been created in the Victorian building that was donated by an anonymous benefactor
Serpentine 2017 pavilion snapped up by Malaysian buyer
Francis Kéré’s structure in London will head to Kuala Lumpur next year in deal struck with Ilham Gallery
Vincent Scully, fervent professor of art of architecture, has died, aged 97
His lectures at Yale University inspired generations to think about “the humanity within architecture”, says former student Maya Lin
In pictures: six global Guggenheim museums that never happened
As the Guggenheim Bilbao turns 20, we look back at some of the cities that considered, but abandoned, their own branch of New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot is now at Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago
Theaster Gates and his Rebuild Foundation have organised a display and series of conversations around the disassembled structure, with hopes of rebuilding it outdoors this spring
Gaudi's first masterpiece opens as public museum in Barcelona
Amidst political turmoil in Catalonia, opening of Casa Vicens could bring "a moment of peace"
Rem Koolhaas transforms Paris building into moving gallery for French retail giant’s cultural foundation
Mobile floors in Lafayette Anticipations's central exhibition space will operate as ‘curatorial machine’, say organisers
Norman Foster plans subtropical landscape for Norton Museum's $100m expansion
Florida museum will show sculptures by Keith Haring and Mark di Suvero in new 'garden rooms'
Centre Pompidou architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers to be honoured with statues outside Paris museum
French artist Xavier Veilhan has created the sculptures to celebrate designers of “masterful building”
Practical kitsch: on Ettore Sottsass at the Met Breuer
Disorientation over the designer's work has settled into quaint admiration
Four things to see during the Chicago Architecture Biennial
From imaginative scale models to a pop-up ‘freak’ show, we pick the must see projects around the city