Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Van Dyck’s portrait of a princess bride to a rare painting by a Brazilian Modernist

Research by UK startup Vastari delves into hidden economics of museums' special shows

Gerhard Richter, Trisha Donnelly and Steve McQueen will show new commissions

The US artist’s daughter shares memories behind the sculptures and drawings

I.M. Pei’s controversial entrance symbolises the Parisian museum’s spectacular growth

Exhibition delves into Western pop culture’s great moments of binary disruption

The 1965 work, Phalli's Field, was a breakthrough in the artist's career

Jean Nouvel-designed museum opens in Doha with multi-sensory history galleries and contemporary art and film commissions

We speak to the French architect about the search for a national landmark and the hurdles that faced the mammoth project

The museum aims to show the diversity of the region, where art and cultures have mixed for centuries

Legal experts discussed the pressing topics for institutions at a recent conference in Washington, DC

Seaside gallery on England’s south coast will have double the space for exhibitions when it reopens in July

Philanthropic funding assures new training for the next generation of masters to emerge

The move follows similar decisions by London museums

London's National Portrait Gallery director on the way cultural institutions engage audiences and measure success

Plus, Nan Goldin's show at the National Portrait Gallery is expected to go ahead after the trust and London museum decided not to proceed with a £1m grant

Historic vessels set sail again from wet dock at the heart of the Lake District boating museum

The move follows a mutual decision by the National Portrait Gallery and the Sackler Trust to not proceed with a £1m grant

She is “relaxed and very stylish” in the portrait

New York museum's rotating rehang will emphasise diverse permanent collection to celebrate the “pluriverse” of art

Two-year restoration of James Thornhill's dizzying Baroque interior was the largest open-access conservation project in Europe

Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia rooms open with support from UK government's Cultural Protection Fund

University of Arizona Museum of Art will send its painting, damaged by the thief, to the Getty

Architects, conservation experts and paint archaeologists have collaborated on £12m project to reopen west London house

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”