Building projects
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
Tate Modern’s extension due to open in June 2016
The gallery still needs to raise £30m
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
Paris Jewish centre to open in 2017 as a ‘symbol of hope’
The €10m project in the city’s 17th arrondissement is due to include a synagogue, library, theatre and classrooms
Hong Kong Museum of Art to finally begin its major renovation
Delays mean the city will have no public art museum for at least three years
Herzog & de Meuron to redevelop Berlin’s Tacheles art squat
German capital’s rapid gentrification continues
Battle of the fashion foundations: Prada vs Louis Vuitton
How the new contemporary art spaces in Paris and Milan measure up
Frick cancels controversial expansion plan
The museum will not build on its Russell Page-design garden, as initially proposed