Building projects
Lucas Museum delays opening until 2025, reveals acquisitions including Ernie Barnes and John Singer Sargent works
The $1bn institution founded by Star Wars creator George Lucas and his wife, Starbucks chairwoman Mellody Hobson, is taking its futuristic shape in Los Angeles’s Exposition Park
Québec City museum picks design for $42.5m new pavilion devoted to Jean Paul Riopelle
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec has selected Montreal-based firm Les Architectes Fabg to design a pavilion to house its collection of Riopelle works, the largest in the world
Museum devoted to Jean Paul Riopelle planned for remote Quebec island
The museum, proposed by the artist’s widow, would cost $3.3m and is to be situated on scenic island in the St. Lawrence river
Hong Kong billionaire to build $1.4bn cultural complex on the coast of China's Shenzhen
Adrian Cheng's newest development K11 ECOAST is scheduled to open in 2024
Vancouver Art Gallery gets $29m in federal funding toward future Herzog & de Meuron home
The fresh funding means the gallery has raised C$270m toward the project’s overall cost of C$400m
Monumental Richard Serra sculpture, and a custom-designed pavilion to house it, unveiled at Glenstone
The project, a unique collaboration between the master sculptor of steel and architect Thomas Phifer, is the latest addition to the private museum's campus
Scrapped: $789m plan to demolish and rebuild Canadian museum on hold amid backlash
What would have been the most expensive museum project in Canadian history is paused indefinitely due to opposition over its cost
Williams College Museum of Art selects Brooklyn-based architects SO-IL for new building
The museum is currently housed in the university's former library building
London's Royal College of Art—whose graduates include Tracey Emin and David Hockney—doubles size of its Battersea campus
The £135m development is designed by Herzog & de Meuron
Los Angeles alternative space LAXART lays down roots with $5m new building
After moving into its first permanent home later this year, nonprofit is prepping an ambitious show of decommissioned Confederate monuments
Art Gallery of Ontario goes big with plans for new Modern and contemporary wing
The 50,000 sq. ft showplace, dubbed AGO Global Contemporary, is set to launch in 2026-27
National Gallery of Victoria receives $74m to build Australia's largest contemporary art museum
The Melbourne museum will span around 30,000 sq. m and open in 2028
Miami organisation Oolite Arts plans $30m new eco-conscious complex
The nonprofit, which hosts exhibitions, workshops, artist residencies and more, is putting environmental resilience at the core of its new home
Light and much more Space: first look at the expanded Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
La Jolla museum is set to reopen after a $105m renovation and collection revamp, telling the story of contemporary art from a distinctively West Coast perspective
Glasgow's Burrell Collection reopens after £68m revamp of parkland home
Six-year modernisation creates more space for one of Scotland's finest art collections, amassed by shipping magnate William Burrell
Qatar ramps up cultural programme ahead of Fifa World Cup with three new museums
Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de Meuron selected to design new institutions
From Christie’s to the United Arab Emi-Rex: record-smashing Tyrannosaurus fossil to be star of new Abu Dhabi museum
The massive ‘Stan’ skeleton is one of two major scientific discoveries destined for the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island
Frank Gehry unveils new design for $350m arts school building in downtown Los Angeles
The new building for the Colburn School, an important music and dance institution, is expected to be complete in 2025
London's National Gallery releases first images of major redevelopment plan
Ahead of a public consultation on the £25m-£30m project, further details of the Selldorf Architects redesign of the Sainsbury Wing entrance have been unveiled
'Laboratory of the future': Rome's Maxxi museum unveils plans for new R&D centre, green spaces and solar energy
Sustainable masterplan will cover Zaha Hadid building in solar panels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
After years of wrangling, Australia commits $228m to build a landmark centre for Indigenous culture
Ngurra precinct in Canberra will provide a home for returned ancestral remains in the heart of the capital
David Adjaye plans slavery museum in Barbados as new republic severs ties with Britain
Complex that will include a research institute for the Barbados Archives—a 400-year-old documentation of the British transatlantic slave trade
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Australian painter's beloved Bundanon estate to be reborn with 32 guest rooms and a bushfire-resistant gallery
Arthur Boyd's rural home—which hosts his collection and Australia's largest residency programme—will reopen after a major expansion in early 2022
A director’s tour of London’s revamped Courtauld Gallery
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces are back on view after a major building transformation and “looking better than ever”
Denver’s Gio Ponti-designed Art Museum gets a $150m revamp and a remix
Campus expansion opens up “standoffish” building and inspires a total rehang of the encyclopaedic art collections
Queens Museum director on its transformative expansion and learning from the pandemic
Led by Sally Tallant, the community-focused museum is building a new educational centre thanks to a $26.4m grant from New York City
A £2.8m transformation of London's Studio Voltaire addresses shortage of affordable studio space
The not-for-profit has added 45 spaces for artists as well as a cafe and shop
Prado extension designed by Norman Foster finally gets the green light
First proposed in 1995, the project has faced multiple delays
London’s Museum of Childhood to be renamed the Young V&A following £13m renovation
East End institution will no longer cater to adults “revelling in nostalgia” and rather be focussed on those aged up to 14 years old