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