Museums
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
Chongqing today, Wuhan tomorrow: Long Museum continues its long march inland
The private museum has opened its first outpost outside of Shanghai
Louvre and Orsay shut down due to flood threat
Both institutions have enacted emergency plans to protect works, as days of rain put the country on high alert
Kunstkammer museum to open in Adelaide, filled with classic porcelain, clocks, textiles and paintings
The late collector David Roche amassed more than 3,000 objects, now on view to the public in Australia
Hayward Gallery moves into a temporary home across the Thames as its Southbank base is overhauled
Jeremy Deller and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster will show new works in off-site video art exhibition
National Gallery of Art names next Mellon lecturer
Historian to explore frontier spirit in American art
Will Helsinki ever get a Guggenheim?
Doubts grow over crucial government funding as the once-friendly Finnish political climate deteriorates
A curator's tour of the new SFMoMA
Three curators pick under-the-radar works they are excited to have on show at the newly expanded museum
SFMoMA shows off its hard-won treasures
The San Francisco museum reopens with something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue-chip
Berlin street art museum gets under way
Culture minister pronounces ‘insane’ Urban Nation project perfect for Berlin
Study tracks the Louvre's 'hot spots'
Visitors’ spent the most amount of time near the Victory of Samothrace—a popular rest stop—and the ticket counter
Two Moscow museums to merge amid controversy
The new institution's director says the goal is efficiency
Xavier Bray appointed new director of the Wallace Collection
The specialist in Spanish art organised the acclaimed Goya portraits show at London’s National Gallery last year
Bronx Museum to undergo facelift
The project is expected to cost around $25m, but will not include an expansion
Louvre and Cairo museum strike antiquities co-operation deal
Joint exhibitions and sharing of conservation expertise planned
Little museum, big gift: Renaissance Society receives $1.5m in pledged funding for artist commissions and shows
The University of Chicago kunsthalle, content to stay small, focusses on producing new work
Greenpeace protest shuts down British Museum for four hours
The institution was closed for safety reasons after demonstrators scaled the front pillars
‘It’s a bigger story’: Frances Morris outlines her global vision for Tate Modern
A monumental extension and a shake-up of the museum’s displays will see more international names, live art and female artists
Palestinian Museum opens—with no exhibition or collection
The inaugural show is postponed, but a satellite exhibition will go ahead this month in Beirut
Helsinki embraces museum building ‘boom’
City Museum is the latest institution to get an upgrade in the Finnish capital, but will the Guggenheim follow?