Museums

Lacma reaches halfway point for $600m Zumthor building with another surprising gift

Self-made hardware store mogul Eric Smidt gives $25m to museum’s expansion campaign

Step inside Gaudí’s first major creation

A home the Spanish architect built for a Barcelona stockbroker is to be restored—with input from the first tenants’ descendants

Not just mummies: British Museum to expand collection with work from modern Egypt

Printed materials, textiles, photographs and items of everyday homeware from the 20th and 21st centuries to be shown alongside museum’s renowned holdings of ancient art

Britain’s ‘art lending library’ finds four new homes

Arts Council Collection of nearly 8,000 works is planning 24 exhibitions with regional partner galleries

Centre Pompidou to stage show on the celebrated 20th-century dealer Paul Rosenberg

But another exhibition backed by Anne Sinclair, Rosenberg’s granddaughter, will tour instead to the Musée Maillol in Paris

Herzog & de Meuron wins competition to build Berlin’s Museum of the 20th Century

Winning design is compared to a station, an indoor riding school, a temple and a marquee

For SoHo’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, expansion is just the first step

The museum is doubling its space at its current location on Wooster Street—but a bigger move is in the pipeline

Three to see: New York

Explore art history with Kerry James Marshall and bask in the pure positivity of Mark Leceky

Villa Flora collection finds new home at Kunstmuseum Bern

Around 100 works by artists like Van Gogh, Matisse, Manet, Cézanne, Renoir and Giacometti amassed by Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser-Bühler

Bottoms up! Contemporary art centre opens fully inside Berlin brewery

Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art in trendy Neukölln district has been unveiled in stages

Unknown Kirchner painting discovered beneath later canvas

Städel Museum found Café Scene during tests on Sleigh Trip in the Snow

New Art Gallery in Walsall at risk of closing after only 15 years

The £21m art space is latest regional museum under threat after closure of art gallery in Edinburgh's Inverleith House

Is the curator who resigned in St Louis heading to Miami Beach?

Jeffrey Uslip, who organised a controversial Kelley Walker show, has been hired by the Bass Museum but may not take up the post

Three to see: New York

From Charlotte Brontë’s letters to Robert Morris's plywood sculptures, we've got you covered on what to see in the city and beyond

The Modern art Stalin did not want Russians to see

Sergei Shchukin’s holdings, split up by the Soviets, are reunited at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris

MoMA boosts Latin American holdings with Cisneros collection

The Venezeulan collectors have given more than 100 works to the New York museum ahead of expansion

Former Cognac bottling factory is home to new French culture foundation

Inaugural installation by Vincent Lamouroux fills entire first floor with white sand and palms<br> <br>

Artist Kader Attia opens new art hub in Paris

Multidisciplinary space will focus on provocative political and cultural issues<br> <br>

Burrell’s world tour struggles to get beyond Glasgow

Scottish museum hoped to raise £15m for renovation fund but international venues are proving hard to secure

National Museum of Beirut opens basement for first time since civil war

Gallery of ancient funerary art restored with Italian support

Fake ticket scheme uncovered at Versailles

Five seasonal workers have been charged with fraud

Get plastered at the Institute of Classical Art

Collection of forgotten casts from the Metropolitan Museum get new home in Manhattan

Donation from collector Hallam Chow shores up M+ museum

Five works will enter the collection of Hong Kong institution due to open in 2019<br>

Musée Carnavalet closed until at least 2019 for €43m restoration

The museum of Paris’s history will send some of its collection abroad

Berlin art dealer 'surprises' city's museums with gift of house

Heiner Bastian has donated his David Chipperfield-designed gallery for use as an educational centre

Centre Pompidou pops up in China

Collection show traces the development of French art from Fauvism in the early 20th century to the opening of the museum in 1977

Interview: Philippe Parreno goes with the flow

The French artist's ambitious Turbine Hall commission for Tate Modern is a gesamkunstwerkof sound, bacteria, floating fish and a ventriloquist

Five years on and the Clyfford Still Museum is still making discoveries

Curators have yet to examine more than 300 of late artist’s paintings

What the Tate bought at Frieze with the help of new talent-agency sponsors

The Frieze Tate Fund's new sponsor, WME IMG, has donated £150,000 towards the Tate’s acquisitions at the fair

France to increase funding for museums and acquisitions in 2017 budget

The minister of culture, Audrey Azoulay, said she understands the “difficulties” museums face in the wake of terror attacks