French president François Hollande made proposal at opening of Louvre-Lens show on Mesopotamia

Los Angeles-based billionaire makes surprise $42.5m gift to fund expansion

The gift supports already-existing programming and projects

Nearly half of visitors to faded seaside resort in south east of England come to see the gallery, research reveals

Major exhibitions in 2017 by Bill Viola, Georg Baselitz and French avant-garde painters mark year of festivities <br> <br>

Authorities consider alternative location to show Berlin museum’s prized Pergamon Altar<br> <br>

Museums across France are making quick use of cash injections

Some question the need for French franchise deal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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