Museums

Tate St Ives announces Anne Barlow as new artistic director

Director of New York’s Art in General gallery will join the museum next spring when it opens after an 18-month closure<br>

Take a peek into Lacma’s future

Peter Zumthor’s ambitious design aims to eliminate traditional hierarchies and evoke “a walk in the woods”

Central America’s first Holocaust museum to open in Guatemala

The building is already hosting temporary exhibitions, while the permanent display will focus on mass murders by shooting in Eastern Europe

Estonian National Museum reopens to religious uproar

Interactive work in inaugural display condemned as an insult to the Virgin Mary

Louvre Abu Dhabi announces Jenny Holzer and Giuseppe Penone commissions as institution edges closer to opening date

Huge installations will be dotted around the museum dome which will be flooded with light <br>

Top social-media jobs in the art world come with six-figure salary

Brush up on your Instagram skills and you could be earning over $100,000

Clark Art Institute reopens its ‘beating heart’, the Manton Research Center

The re-worked building includes the museum’s first gallery for works on paper

Berlin to build temporary exhibition space amid Pergamon Museum delays

New building will host Asisi’s Pergamon panorama and a frieze from the altar

Ewan McGregor, Douglas Gordon and Guggenheim director call for Edinburgh’s Inverleith House to be saved

More than 200 international artists, curators and culture figures protest closure of leading gallery<br> <br>

Metropolitan Museum surveys the past year of architecture with daylong event

Panels and talks feature prominent architects and artists discussing their most recent projects

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (partially) open at last

The public gets a peek inside the long-delayed building with the temporary exhibition Urgent Conversations: Athens-Antwerp

Chile’s first state-run contemporary art museum opens at former airport

National Centre for Contemporary Art Chile includes spaces for exhibitions, archives and conservation<br>

Three to see: New York

From immersive contemporary art, to a renewed look at Modern masters

Helsinki considers plan C to build Guggenheim

Private funding increased as US-based foundation cuts its fee by $10m

Neil MacGregor unveils plans for Berlin’s ambitious Humboldt Forum

Director calls for admission-free museum to draw Berliners as well as tourists

Sex sells: Paris’s Musée de l’Érotisme collection hits the auction block

The museum in the Pigalle red light district closed its doors, but you can take home one of its naughty objects

Louvre may safeguard artefacts from war-torn areas

French president François Hollande made proposal at opening of Louvre-Lens show on Mesopotamia

How the Albright-Knox Art Gallery raised more than $100m in just three months

Los Angeles-based billionaire makes surprise $42.5m gift to fund expansion

Turner Contemporary gives ‘brand Margate’ much-needed boost

Nearly half of visitors to faded seaside resort in south east of England come to see the gallery, research reveals

Zorionak! Guggenheim Bilbao to celebrate 20th birthday with jam-packed programme

Major exhibitions in 2017 by Bill Viola, Georg Baselitz and French avant-garde painters mark year of festivities <br> <br>

Pergamon Museum renovation costs spiral as reopening is delayed

Authorities consider alternative location to show Berlin museum’s prized Pergamon Altar<br> <br>

The lesser-known beneficiaries of the Louvre Abu Dhabi deal

Museums across France are making quick use of cash injections

Pompidou Brussels gets lacklustre greeting from locals

Some question the need for French franchise deal