Museums
German parliament approves extra costs for Berlin Museum of the 20th Century
The €364m budget is “a real pain threshold,” culture minister says
Works of art in Venice museums and the Biennale undamaged by floods, but major attrition to buildings with great loss of private property
Most cultural institutions open to the public again today
Whitney Museum acquires 88 works by biennial artists
Additions to the collection include a painting by one of the eight artists who threatened to pull their art from display in protest against vice chairman Warren Kanders
Meadows Museum in Dallas teams up with local and Madrid opera companies
Opera sets will evoke the museum’s collection, and soloists will perform at the museum
Rio Art Museum could close due to lack of federal funding
Two directors left the museum last week, and 126 employees have received a dismissal notice
Moving to the suburbs: vast museum collections centre destined for 'New Moscow'
State Tretyakov Gallery among 23 Russian museums planning to store and show works near former killing field Kommunarka
UK national museums could learn a lot from their regional cousins
When it comes to having a historian rummaging in their stores, smaller institutions tend to be more enthusiastic and accommodating
Chiara Parisi lined up as new director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz
The Rome-born curator will oversee the gallery’s tenth anniversary programme and events
One year after the Sarr-Savoy report, France has lost its momentum in the restitution debate
The report made international headlines, recommending the restitution of African artefacts in French museums, but the country has not returned a single item to Africa
National Galleries of Scotland to no longer host BP Portrait Award
Museums officials say that the association with the oil company is at odds with a "responsibility to do all we can to address the climate emergency"
From the archive | Louvre pyramid architect I.M. Pei on the church-like museum he designed for the Goulandris collection
In this 1994 interview, he reveals how he likes art to be displayed, such as natural lighting for Impressionists
Interview | Lonnie Bunch on founding the Smithsonian's African American history museum and drawing inspiration from Lincoln
As his new book is released, the new secretary of the Smithsonian Institution talks of extending its reach beyond Washington
London's National Gallery launches public campaign to fund last £2m to buy Orazio Gentileschi masterpiece
The 17th-century painting The Finding of Moses was painted in London for Charles I and represented the birth of Charles II
Gus Casely-Hayford, director of Smithsonian’s African art museum, to lead V&A East
The British cultural historian will take up his role at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new branch in the spring
'We are the opposite of Starbucks': Pompidou chief on the challenges of setting up a Shanghai satellite
The French museum's president on censorship threats and settling the costs of the new project
Museum dedicated to Picasso and Giacometti to launch in Beijing
Paris-based institutions Musée National Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti will open space in 798 district next June
London’s National Portrait Gallery to close for three years with ‘some job losses’
Museum plans to send 300 portraits a year on tour around the country during £35.5m redevelopment
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art to open space in Shanghai
New outpost of the Beijing-based institution is due to open in 2021
Archaeologist Zahi Hawass creates Tutankhamun opera to mark opening of Grand Egyptian Museum
Outspoken former minister also wants to stage the show in Valley of the Kings in 2022
A US-China-Arab partnership: Lacma, Yuz Museum and Qatar Museums team up on exhibition projects
The Los Angeles and Shanghai institutions say their joint foundation is still in progress
Lucas Museum names a Met department chairman as its new director
Sandra Jackson-Dumont will take over in January as leader of George Lucas’s $1bn project in Los Angeles
Paris to build temporary venue near Eiffel Tower to host Grand Palais's shows when it closes in 2021
Culture chief Chris Dercon says the new space will hold events during the museum's three-year refurbishment, including a collaboration with Unesco
Parasol Unit to close east London gallery
From next spring the foundation will hold exhibitions "in whatever part of the world I feel the dialogue is needed”, says founder Ziba Ardalan
Russian billionaire's huge Moscow art hub—designed by Renzo Piano—will open in September 2020
Leonid Mikhelson says that the "frightening" cost that he had initially anticipated for the GES-2 complex has doubled
Ragnar Kjartansson re-creates US soap opera for vast GES-2 culture complex opening in Moscow
GES-2 complex is located in a former power plant, built in 1907, located near the Kremlin
‘I won’t be bringing in a load of artists’: Tim Marlow on leading the Design Museum
Royal Academy’s artistic director is an unexpected choice
San Diego artist wins top prize in US portrait competition with immigration-themed animation
Washington's National Portrait Gallery will display finalists’ work in a contest that helped to vault the reputation of Amy Sherald
TeamLab to open spaces in Shanghai and Macao after breaking attendance records in Tokyo
Multimedia collective's first permanent gallery in Japan was the most popular single-artist museum of 2018, beating Picasso and Van Gogh museums
FBI recovers painting suspected as Nazi loot from US museum
Gari Melchers's painting of a winter landscape, which was in the Arkell Museum in the state of New York, belonged to the media mogul Rudolf Mosse
As Brexit looms, new gallery on England's south coast promises to be 'outward facing'
Brighton CCA, run by the University of Brighton, launches with exhibitions on German artist Franz Erhard Walther and south London collective Dog Kennel Hill Project