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

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