Museums

Kunstmuseum stages sculptural revolution

Museum’s new building opens with ambitious survey ranging from Brancusi to Bruce Nauman

Global and industrial: the concept behind the new Tate Modern

Frances Morris explains the strategy behind the split in the collection displays, and the raw nature of the galleries that will house the Tate’s now genuinely international collection

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Private museums that put the public first

From Basel's finest to the Broad, the institutions that set an example

In pictures: inside Tate Modern's £260m expansion

Take a look inside the London museum's Herzog & De Meuron-designed pyramid, before it opens to the public on 17 June

Beyeler gets the balance right

Alexander Calder’s grandson picks his favourite works in the artist’s joint show with Fischli/Weiss

Tate Britain a new sense of identity

Arguably the museum that most immediately suffered from Tate Modern’s success was its sister institution upriver

And here’s what they buy: some of the key recent acquisitions in Tate Modern’s new displays

From El Anatsui's splashy tapestry, to Cildo Meireles's tower of radios, to Kader Attia's couscous citadel

The networks that buy the Tate’s art

The acquisition of works for the museum’s collection is supported by a wealth of global patrons

Economics and politics made Tate Modern happen

Deregulation in London’s financial markets, and new money looking for a home, helped to make contemporary art a much-prized commodity

Anthony d'Offay on why it’s good to give

The dealer-turned-philanthropist tells us about his decision to offer his collection to Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland

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Tate Modern: a museum for our times

In emphasising architecture and spectacle, jettisoning chronology, pursuing diverse audiences and attracting private money, Tate Modern is the quintessential contemporary museum

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How artists and museums are addressing the refugee crisis

Works at Art Basel and beyond aim to stir the conscience and raise funds in aid of the “biggest challenge of our time”

The ones that got away: Tate’s rejected designs

The architectural competition for Tate Modern teemed with starchitects, and some eyebrow-raising designs

The guide that Takes London’s artistic pulse

Conceived in a pub in 1978, the Neca listing has widened interest in contemporary art far beyond Cork Street

Collective experience: two artists on Making art for the Tate's industrial spaces

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Doris Salcedo tell us about their projects for the Turbine Hall

Show me the numbers

What can we learn from analysing Tate Modern’s exhibitions amid the wider London art scene?

The Turbine Hall: how the Tate made a spectacle of itself

Tate Modern’s signature post-industrial space has prompted some of the most memorable works of recent years. Here are some highlights

Tate Modern: a shock to the old

Museum’s success was accompanied by doom-laden predictions for historic art. But have those fears been confirmed?

Performance: stage left, right and centre in the new Tate

What you can expect to see in the galleries and exhibitions spaces this summer

Slot machine mobster’s confiscated collection goes on show in Reggio

State-seized art includes paintings by Salvador Dalí, Lucio Fontana and Giorgio de Chirico

Scream seller’s space to open in 2017

Norwegian shipping heir Petter Olsen will show other works by Munch from his collection in private museum funded by $120m sale

Oscar Tuazon goes off-grid in Basel

For Art Basel, the artist has used cutting-edge technology to update hippie-chic, eco-friendly house

Smithsonian scales back London plans at Olympicopolis

The Washington institution will share space in the new V&A East building, where it will show selected work from its 19 museum collections

With sanctions in the rear-view mirror, European museums look to Iranian art

V&A plans show on Iranian heritage and history while Berlin seals deal with Tehran museum

As protests rage, will BP ditch the BM?

The museum stands to lose around £500,000 a year when the current partnership agreement ends

Centre Pompidou’s chief US fundraiser awarded France’s top honour for boosting acquisitions of American art

The Beaubourg gallery also appoints a new curator tasked with discovering young Chinese artists

Grand Palais closes as the Seine continues to rise

Huang Yong Ping’s Monumenta commission among the shows temporarily shut down in a “preventive measure”

From illicit art to fresh blood: four of the biggest challenges facing museums today

Museum professionals gathered in Washington, DC, to survey the state of the field at the annual AAM conference