Museums

Race to save Cornelia Parker’s Met sculpture

PsychoBarn offered as gift to US institutions but time running out to avoid New York skip

Collaboration is key to Ghana’s growing art scene

As non-profit ANO opens new building for performances, screenings and workshops in Accra, it also plans to develop a more cooperative model for showing contemporary art

Works from Beijing’s Palace Museum to travel to Berlin

An international deal signed by museum directors will bring Ming and Qing Dynasty portraits to Germany next year

Former MoMA curator leads new riverside art, architecture and technology museum in Lisbon

Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia opens with a major installation by French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Why museum leaders are organising shows for private collectors

With government funding harder to come by, museums must stay in the good graces of ultra-rich patrons

Met sued over Picasso painting allegedly sold under duress by Jewish refugee

The heirs of Paul Leffmann are seeking to recover The Actor from the museum

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New museums: the rise of cryptic cathedrals of the cosmos

Charles Jencks revisits his article written for The Art Newspaper in 2000 to survey how museum architecture has evolved since the millennium

US museums’ Cuban dreams deferred

High-profile loan programmes are hindered by practical problems and political realities

Catherine Pégard to continue as the president of Versailles for another three years

Contract renewed for the ex-government advisor who has driven the chateau’s controversial contemporary art programme

Centre Pompidou to open museum in Brussels in former Citroën building

The project is a partnership with the Brussels-Capital Region, which has been planning a Modern and contemporary art centre for years

Anita Halpin among beneficiaries of Neue Galerie restitution

The New York museum paid the Hess family “fair market value” to keep Nude in its collection

Met lays off 34 employees

Staff cuts are part of a larger restructuring to reduce deficit by $30m

Basrah Museum opens against the odds in Iraq

New museum is housed in a converted former palace of Saddam Hussein

‘If we don’t work together, we will see very dark times,’ says outgoing V&A director Martin Roth

American and Chinese museum leaders gather in New York to discuss international co-operation

See how Washington's National Gallery of Art has grown

Reopening this week, I.M. Pei’s East Building just got better—without getting any bigger

Bigger than the Broad: Glenstone is about to become one of America's biggest museums

Roni Horn gets the solo treatment ahead of private museum’s major expansion in 2018

How the Corcoran’s art gained a second lease of life

National Gallery of Art curators have spent two years selecting from the defunct museum’s 17,000 works

Egypt’s Mallawi Museum reopens with looted collection mostly restored

After a £864,000 renovation, the museum now has modern display cases, lighting, security, and a greater emphasis on education

President Obama to ring in grand opening of Smithsonian's African-American museum

Tens of thousands expected at the weekend festival celebrating the newest addition on the National Mall, including performances by the Roots and Public Enemy, dance, spoken word and a southern BBQ

Interview: David Adjaye and Theaster Gates on working in Washington, DC

The London-based architect and the Chicago-based artist spoke with us ahead of their joint talk at the Hirshhorn Museum

Atlanta’s High Museum streamlines admission to $14.50 for everyone

But the price change means children under 17 who are not students will pay slightly more than before

Wellbeing at the heart of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts extension

As well as housing Old Masters, the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace also focuses on art therapy

Manuel Rabaté appointed director of Louvre Abu Dhabi

Jean Nouvel-designed $1bn museum is due to open next year