Museums

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

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