Museums
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
Dia Art Foundation establishes Sackler Institute with help from longtime donors
The gift supports already-existing programming and projects
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
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