Building projects
Shanghai's East Bund on the rise as museums building boom continues
State-backed projects along Huangpu river could rival West Bund's private museums and galleries
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
Plans for Grand Palais’s €466m facelift revealed: six new galleries and a Chanel-sponsored entrance
Three-year closure from 2020 means Fiac and Paris Photo fairs must relocate to temporary venues
Prelude to a launch: New York’s new arts centre The Shed to host 12-day festival this May
Multi-disciplinary cultural centre is due to open in 2019
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
City council clears Lacma’s plans for South Los Angeles outpost
The museum will rehab a disused building in the neighbourhood’s Wetlands Park for storage and exhibition space, and start community arts programming within the next two years
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
Newly refurbished Hayward lights up after dark
Brutalist museum reopens with new skylights and glass pyramids
Brutalist housing estate in Sheffield to host £21m art hub
Park Hill Art Space will include artists' studios and a research institute
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
New art route to make Moscow a ‘cultural capital of the world’
Realisation of GES2 in 2019 will link up four major institutions as part of the Museum Mile
Ai Weiwei and Antony Gormley in the running for Treasure Island commissions
The $50m San Francisco Bay redevelopment plan includes several large-scale public sculptures
Our guide to the most important new museums and expansions in 2018
From striking new spaces in France and the US to major revamps of old favourites in London and Los Angeles
Masterplan revealed for Nelahozeves castle restoration
London-based firm Wright & Wright Architects to redevelop 16th-century home for Czech private collection
Mark Bradford to launch Hauser & Wirth’s Hong Kong gallery
The Los Angeles artist is creating a new series of large-scale paintings for the show
British Museum to move storage to Reading
New research facility will provide new home for many of the two million artefacts currently at Blythe House
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
Courtauld Institute sets its sights on £50m revamp—and sends art on tour
Two-year transformation, starting next summer, will open up the London gallery’s historic Great Room
Louvre Abu Dhabi opens but questions over welfare of migrant workers persist
Improvements are well documented, but rules are still inadequately enforced
Post-Harvey, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston moves Glassell School of Art opening to May 2018
The first phase of the campus expansion master plan has been delayed and there will be an estimated $1m to $2m in hurricane-related expenses, but storm preparations saved the museum from more costly damage
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'
Kettle's Yard to reopen in 2018 after £11m transformation
Cambridge house-museum and its art influenced the student Nicholas Serota to switch from economics to art history
Penn Museum unveils multi-phase revamp
University museum will highlight its archaeological expeditions in new galleries
British Museum ends loan deal with Abu Dhabi
Construction delays to the Zayed National Museum are behind the move
Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries reopen after $13.6m renovation
Asian art museums on National Mall get a physical and “mental” makeover
Leeds Art Gallery raises the roof for £4m revamp
New collection displays fill renovated building after two-year closure
MoMA expansion is boon for Paris and Melbourne
Major loans from New York will be shown in both cities while the US institution adds one-third more exhibition space in Manhattan
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park launches $115m expansion
The successful $115m capital campaign for the Tod Williams and Billie Tsien-designed project includes funds for future acquisitions
Princeton University celebrates new Lewis Center for the Arts
College’s first purpose-built arts facility was a decade in the making