Building projects

François Pinault denies Paris museum plan

Reports say city’s mayor will help to find site

Elmgreen & Dragset’s skinny dip in Miami Beach

Duo create one of six new works at convention centre

US presidents and Taiwan back Eisenhower Memorial

Frank Gehry revises controversial design but the family of the soldier and statesman remains unimpressed

Palestinian Museum partnership draws criticism

Not everyone is happy about the Institut du Monde Arabe's decision to co-found a museum in the West Bank

Poland’s richest woman plans new contemporary art museum for Warsaw

Grazyna Kulczyk has sold her culture centre in Poznan to dedicate herself to the project in the Polish capital

Milwaukee Art Museum pulls off expansion from depths of slump

Mould flourished, floors buckled and ceilings leaked in the two buildings that housed the museum's permanent collection when it announced $34m renovation in 2009 at the height of the recession

London mayor: ‘if the Americans can put a man on the moon, they can build a museum in Stratford’

Boris Johnson says Smithsonian Institution still on board as capital’s planned cultural quarter on former Olympics site gets £45m in donations

Turner Prize-nominated collective, Assemble, plans to help convert Peckham car park into artists’ studios

Proposal is one of three being considered by Southwark Council in south London next week

Berlin’s most-visited museum gets a makeover

Renovation of the Pergamon Museum expected to be complete by 2019, with a new wing dedicated to Egyptian art to open by 2026

Shop 'til you Pop art: Lebanese retail tycoon opens museum-mall in Beirut

At Tony Salamé’s $100m Aishti Foundation, visitors can see a major show of abstract works or shop in a string of luxury boutiques

Three years late but with the entire human story in its sights

Revamp of Musée de l’Homme will chart humanity’s story from prehistory to the present—and future

Private fortunes drive Beirut’s museum boom

Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano and David Adjaye get involved as donors step in to fill the funding gap

Centre Pompidou president promises pop-ups in Korea and China

Exhibitions on the Beat Generation, Beirut and Arte Povera also in the pipeline

Institut du Monde Arabe brings Scheherazade’s 1,001 nights to northern France

The Tourcoing outpost of the Parisian museum for Arabian culture due to move to historic building in city centre

Competition to design Qatar’s Art Mill heats up

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

Gainsborough’s House launches fundraising campaign

Planned extension will put Grade-I listed townhouse on the international art map

Tate Modern to unveil new extension in June 2016

Fundraising challenges and complexity of building design delayed completion by four years

Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening

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

Four years on and Norway is still divided on massacre memorial

Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg's monument, which calls for a slice of the Sørbråten peninsula to be cut out like “an open wound”, was due for completion in July

Olafur Eliasson waterfall for Copenhagen swimming pool

A proposal to build an art pool in the Danish capital would allow visitors to “get in touch” with underwater works

You can now adopt a work of art in the Brazilian jungle

Instituto Inhotim is looking for wealthy sponsors to fund its single-artist galleries

Abu Dhabi museums face further scrutiny by Gulf Labor

Poor conditions persist, says new report from the activist group, but underpayment is the real issue for migrant workers

Studio Museum in Harlem to build new home from the ground up

David Adjaye-designed gallery aims to reflect institution's roots

Richard Prince’s retail therapy in Beirut

The US artist creates site-specific works for the fashion chain founded by Tony Salamé