Building projects

Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plan for new, $444m Herzog and de Meuron-designed building

The institution ended its partnership with the Swiss firm, begun nearly a decade ago, as it reassesses its plans

Frick Collection to reopen in April with Vermeer exhibition in the works

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year

New-York Historical Society changes its name and reveals plans for new $175m wing

The museum's new wing dedicated to American democracy will open in 2026, just in time for the US’s semiquincentennial

Gift of more than $45m and 331 works for the Clark Art Institute

The gifts, from the foundation of the late trustee Aso O. Tavitian, will allow the Massachusetts museum to build a new wing

Modern Art Oxford gallery gets a £2m revamp

The new space's inaugural show is dedicated to the pioneering Cuban artist Belkis Ayón

Victoria and Albert Museum reveals opening date and programme for ambitious new east London storehouse

The museum has also announced details of the much anticipated David Bowie Centre, due to be housed on the same site

'We have been able to act as a safe space': amid war in Gaza, London's Mosaic Rooms announces major expansion plans

The non-profit space dedicated to Arab culture has been a vocal supporter of a ceasefire, and now aims to increase its space and income streams

Abu Dhabi bets on repeating Las Vegas's success: Sphere to open second giant immersive institution

Capital of United Arab Emirates to build block-sized showcase for stadium-scaled concerts and giant video works by leading digital artists

ICA Miami buys former de la Cruz Collection building

The acquisition doubles the museum’s space for public programmes, which it will use for a new media gallery, permanent collection displays and more

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino gets $2m donation from PepsiCo

The soft drink company's gift will support the planning, designing and building of the museum's future complex in Washington, DC

New arts district takes shape in Dallas’s northern suburbs

Three institutions have joined forces to transform a corner of the University of Texas at Dallas into a cultural hub

Plans for Centre Pompidou outpost in New Jersey are revived, in a new space

The hotly debated Jersey City satellite of the venerated Parisian institution appears to be back on the books after it was "paused indefinitely" in June

Las Vegas’s Neon Museum set for $45m relocation and expansion

The beloved but cramped attraction will move to sites in the Arts District, near the future site of the Las Vegas Museum of Art

Lacma pushes back opening of new building until 2026

Museum leaders are hoping to organise public programming in the empty building next year

Fondation Cartier reveals plans for new Paris space designed by Jean Nouvel

The French architect will modernise the historic site, which is due to open next year near the Louvre

Inside New York's museum-building boom

A wave of construction projects is updating and expanding the city’s art and cultural institutions, indicating a trend toward modernisation and growth

Art Institute of Chicago receives $75m gift to support campus overhaul

The collectors and philanthropists Aaron Fleischman and Lin Lougheed will one day have a building named in honour of their donation, one of the largest in the museum’s history

Long-planned Las Vegas art museum given plot of land downtown

After decades of efforts to build an art museum in the city, a plan led by collector and philanthropist Elaine Wynn has real momentum—and, now, real estate

Omaha's Joslyn Art Museum reopens after $100m expansion

The museum expanded its exhibition space and reorganised its permanent collection for the first time in almost 100 years—with a special focus on Native American art

Cost of Vancouver Art Gallery's new building balloons by 50%, reaching $444m

The museum’s director claimed the sharp increase was due to a precipitous rise in construction costs in recent years, though a prominent collector called this explanation “preposterous”

Rising construction costs are leading to smaller, more adaptive museum spaces

According to AEA Consulting’s Cultural Infrastructure Index, arts institutions have been resizing to meet audience needs

Berlin memorial to Sinti and Roma Holocaust victims under threat from planned tunnel

A campaign has been launched to protect the Dani Karavan-designed monument

After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname

The 75ft-long sauropod fossil will go on prominent display when the museum’s new entry pavilion opens this autumn

Florida hedge-fund manager building art park for prized Richard Serra sculpture

After abandoning a private museum project in Miami, Bruce Berkowitz will create a verdant art destination in the Florida panhandle

Campaign launched to stop demolition of Museum of London for office building

Although the controversial project has been green lit, it may take years before building work begins

Sprawling new cultural hub takes shape in Detroit

Little Village arts campus, including church transformed into an exhibition space and a skatepark, aims to bolster Detroit’s cultural scene

New arts complex to open in Philadelphia with help from Theaster Gates

The collectors Michael Forman and Jennifer Rice will both house their extensive collection there and engage the working-class neighbourhood where they bought almost a whole city block

Penn State university's art museum reopens in new $85m building that seeks to blend art with nature

The Palmer Museum of Art in the city of State College, Pennsylvania, has nearly doubled its space

Los Angeles non-profit LAXART prepares to re-open in new home with new name

The art space's first commission under its new name, the Brick, is a mural of Pope.L by the 3B Collective

Bard College plans $10m expansion of Center for Curatorial Studies’ library

The expansion of the influential programme’s library and archives will be named the Keith Haring Wing in recognition of a gift from the artist’s foundation