Museums

Hopes are high for new director of Hong Kong’s M+ museum

Suhanya Raffel will take up the challenging role in November, following the departure of Lars Nittve

Detroit invests $3.7m in African-American art

The DIA’s director wants collection to better reflect the city’s population

Billionaires to build Chelsea home for coveted collection

Renaissance bronzes will take pride of place in Tom and Janine Hill’s private museum

An edifice worthy of the pharaohs rises next to the pyramids

The Grand Egyptian Museum aims to lure foreign visitors back to Cairo

Centre Pompidou to unveil major donation of 20th-century Russian art

Collection supported by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation includes Soviet noncomformist works and pays tribute to artists with a French connection

UK museums sponsored by BP not in breach of code of ethics, committee says

Art Not Oil coalition says it is “disappointed” with Museums Association’s findings

A feast for the senses: a new crop of museum restaurants go beyond the gallery walls

Directors share insights into the food revolution close to home—and their favourite dishes

Designnews

Harvard museums bring back the spirit of the Bauhaus

An extensive public database chronicles the university’s rich holdings related to the Weimar art school

New York’s El Museo del Barrio loses another director

Jorge Daniel Veneciano, who organised the museum’s popular Op Art show, leaves at the end of the month

Berlin plans Jewish museum for children inspired by Noah’s Ark

Winning plan by Olson Kundig of Seattle proposes a rainbow gallery and an exit slide

Louvre opens up to performance art

Fiac art fair has organised new festival taking place in famous Parisian locations<br>

Bavarian museums receive 58 top works by Mondrian, Delacroix, Beuys

Collection was assembled by the philanthropists Christof and Ursula Engelhorn over many decades

Jens Hoffmann clarifies: ‘I am not leaving the Jewish Museum’

But he is giving up administrative duties to focus more time on exhibitions and writing, at the museum and beyond

London’s V&A buys rare Hans Coper bird bowl

1950s ceramic, which was at risk of being exported from the UK, purchased in memory of the late writer Annabel Freyberg<br> <br>

Marketnews

Sotheby's to create videos about the world's leading museums and collections

Auction house's website will also host content produced by institutions including the Met and the Tate

Rupertinum revamp puts Salzburg on the contemporary art map

Franz West lounge and Generali Foundation collection among highlights of refurbished 17th-century site <br>

Moscow’s Garage Museum hosts first show in St Petersburg

The exhibition of emerging Russian artists will be installed in a redeveloped park on New Holland Island, opening 27 August

Pressure mounts for US museums to increase diversity at the top

Stark findings from two high-profile studies are pushing the sector to act on ethnic diversity—but not everyone agrees on what to do<br>

Curators' tour of the new Tate Modern

As gallery attracts more than one million visitors in opening month, Catherine Wood, Achim Borchardt-Hume and Matthew Gale pick the works that take pride of place

National Museum of Oman opens in Muscat

Institution to focus on the display and conservation of the sultanate’s cultural heritage from prehistory to the present

Bass museum to fill expanded space with shows by Ugo Rondinone, Mika Rottenberg and Pascale Marthine Tayou

The architects were tasked with the difficult job of increasing exhibition space without adding to the building

BP extends culture sponsorship at four UK institutions

The oil giant will invest £7.5m over the next five years, renewing criticism from environmental groups

This is what the planned V&A East building in Olympicopolis will look like

Detailed images reveal the design for the new museum outpost in east London

San Francisco museums board president Dede Wilsey steps down

The move follows a $2m wrongful termination settlement connected to a $450,000 loan to a former employee