Building projects
New building for Memphis Brooks Museum imperilled amid lawsuit over ownership of its riverfront plot
The legal case seeking to block the art museum's new $180m Herzog & de Meuron-designed building is ongoing
Vancouver Art Gallery launches construction of new $295m building with ceremony, donation and new acquisitions
The celebratory event marked a major milestone in a process begun in 2004; the new building is expected to be complete in 2028
Renzo Piano to design performing-arts centre in South Florida
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect's firm, which accepts only two projects per year, will take on the new Center for Arts and Innovation in Boca Raton
New Mexico Museum of Art adds $20.2m contemporary art outpost
The new Vladem Contemporary, which adds exhibition, education and storage space, aims to showcase recent art in a state best-known for its Modernist traditions
Lacma reaches $750m fundraising goal for new Peter Zumthor-designed building
The museum says its new building, which stretches across Wilshire Boulevard, is now 65% complete
Access to Anish Kapoor’s Chicago 'bean' limited until 2024 due to construction
Work in Millennium Park will keep tourists and Chicagoans from the massive selfie beacon
Kentucky's Speed Art Museum to create $22m sculpture park
The Speed Outdoors, a public park and sculpture garden, aspires to become a focal point for the Louisville community
Dallas Museum of Art picks Spanish architecture firm for campus overhaul
Madrid-based Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was selected from a shortlist of six firms vying to transform the Texan museum
Planned Centre Pompidou outpost in New Jersey is ‘a circus of waste and excess’, according to Republican report
A Republican state senator is taking Jersey City’s mayor and New Jersey’s governor to task over the delayed museum project
Brazil’s Inhotim Institute opens dedicated Yayoi Kusama gallery
The permanent pavilion includes two of the Japanese artist’s beloved installations
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s $230m transformation privileges its public and permanent collection
A decades-long process resulted in an ambitious reorientation of the museum’s campus around people and art
Guild Hall, one of the Hamptons's leading art institutions, is transformed after $29m renovation
Shuttered for two years, the East Hampton institution has reopened with a major Renée Cox solo show
Excavations for Magazzino Italian Art’s expansion allowed the centre to finally create a rare Michelangelo Pistoletto Land Art piece
The outdoor installation, conceived in 2003 but never executed until now, was unveiled on the Italian artist’s 90th birthday
After leader’s resignation, Canada’s Royal British Columbia Museum faces uncertain future
While plans for an off-site storage and research building move forward, questions remain about the museum’ aging facilities, its community engagement efforts and who will lead it next
Minimalist master Tadao Ando on museum design, legacy and hope
The Japanese architect behind the Bourse de Commerce in Paris—and the subject of an exhibition at Museum SAN, one of his own designs near Seoul—gives a rare interview
New theatre building will house famous Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco
A new three-hall performance centre on City College of San Francisco's campus will house "Pan-American Unity", which is currently on display at SFMoMA
How New York's Hispanic Society is reinventing itself
As the Hispanic Society Museum & Library reopens after a six-year renovation—and two-month strike—its leaders are re-imagining its founder's legacy
Smithsonian picks architect for $130m Bezos Learning Center on Washington, DC's National Mall
The new education annex of the National Air and Space Museum will be funded through a $200m gift from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
National Archaeological Museum of Naples opening new branch in the city’s famous Real Albergo dei Poveri
MANN's new partner museum will provide an additional 10,000 sq. m of exhibition space, allowing the people of Naples to finally see the full range of the largest collection of classical archaeology in the world
Los Angeles’s Self Help Graphics marks 50 years with $14.9m renovation
The beloved non-profit is undertaking an extensive revamp of its home, a former seafood packing plant near the Downtown Arts District
American Museum of Natural History’s soaring, $465m new science centre opens
The new Gilder Center, designed by architecture firm Studio Gang to resemble a towering canyon, adds 230,000 sq. ft and some clarity to the museum’s vast Manhattan campus
The transformed Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts reopens in Little Rock
Studio Gang’s ambitious renovation revitalises a historic cultural institution
Frick Collection will vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue building in early 2024
The institution will reopen in its historic mansion, which is undergoing a $160m renovation, by the end of 2024
Smithsonian women’s history museum names its first director
Nancy Yao, the director of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America, will take the helm at the in-development Washington, DC museum in June
Lacma adds more high-profile board members as it inches closer to $750m fundraising goal for new building
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art says it is now 98% of the way to its fundraising goal for the campaign to construct its controversial Peter Zumthor-designed building
Art Gallery of Ontario reveals designs for new $73m modern and contemporary art wing
Construction of the 40,000 sq. ft space, dubbed the Dani Reiss Modern and Contemporary Gallery, is expected to begin in early 2024, with an opening scheduled in 2027
Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s $75m expansion to create new, free spaces
The ambitious campus revamp will include construction of an admission-free entry pavilion and “sustainable” gardens designed in consultation with a new Indigenous advisory council
US National Museum of Women in the Arts to reopen in October following $67.5m renovation
Described as “the first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists”, the Washington, DC museum is adding 20% more gallery space
'A long overdue recognition': Paris's Arab World Institute to turn part of its building into an art museum
The new space, spanning all seven levels of the Institute's Jean Nouvel-designed building, was made possible in part thanks to a major donation of 1,677 works
Bangalore's new Museum of Art & Photography looks to attract India's digital generation
While the pandemic held up MAP's construction it made 100 exhibits available online—a strategy that will continue beyond its physical opening