During her first week on the job, the new director reveals her aspirations for the museum

MK Gallery's new £12m building is inspired by utopian 1970s heyday of England’s maligned New Town

Award from Outset Partners will support Arte Útil project to queer collections and work with local communities

The monumental bronze eagle was donated in 1954 by a gardener who inherited it from a diplomat and collector

The renovation taps into the spirit of the founding architect, Gordon Bunshaft

The shutdown dealt a blow to federally-funded museums, with disappointed visitors, furloughed staff, disrupted exhibitions and lost revenue that “can never be regained”

Lentos Kunstmuseum in Linz confronts the legacy of its controversial first director, cousin of Hildebrand Gurlitt

The museums are pooling the divided collections of Sergei Shchukin and Morozov brothers for a quartet of exhibitions

In the face of turbulent times the public art museum has a difficult, but essential role to hold open an open space for dissenting experiences of art and culture

Still Life With Mackerel demonstrates the French 18th-century artist's virtuosity in the genre

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America

As one of the biggest employers in the area, the vast open-air culture complex wants to support victims

NG27 group's case is described as first in public sector to address concerns over “gig economy” but museum says there will be implications

Artist's son says the project will "do right by my father’s vision for the space"

New exhibition presents documents that lay the foundations for reconstruction of Aleppo and other sites ruined by civil war

By analysing and categorising watermarks, an online tool will allow researchers to connect prints to specific batches of paper

Cardinal Grimani’s classical Greek and Roman sculptures—given to the Venetian Republic in 1587—will be reassembled in theatrical palace gallery

Bumps caused by chemical reactions can now be mapped by waving a hand-held device that one professor likens to a Star Trek “tricorder”

French museums operator Culturespaces has launched a space in South Korea and is planning another in Bordeaux in 2020

Hauser & Wirth has helped to develop “sustainable model” for Chillida Leku, which partially closed amidst Spanish economic crisis

The full-scale preparatory drawing for the Vatican’s School of Athens fresco is going back on view after a four-year restoration

From Paris to Chartres, US philanthropy makes its mark

Almost 300 Modern and contemporary works will be withdrawn amid funding dispute with the Jerwood Foundation

Closure comes just weeks after three key staff members announced their departures

Describing itself as a victim of fraud, museum says it cooperated with district attorney's investigation

New York institution plans to shore up its Neo-Classical façade and create outdoor spaces for the public

Senior curator Margaret Maitland reveals the stories behind some of the key exhibits in the new Ancient Egypt Rediscovered gallery

Pain held demonstrations at the Guggenheim and the Met over the weekend

$100m project highlights museum's growing commitment to contemporary art

The £80m masterplan has created 50% more public space and unveiled 6,500 forgotten objects