Museums
Louvre narrowly averts disaster as staff rally to save art from flood
Collection remains vulnerable to rising waters until a planned superstore outside Paris opens in 2019
Billionaire collectors to open fourth museum in China
Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei are rapidly buying art to fill their growing museum empire
German collector Thomas Borgmann bolsters Stedelijk Museum's contemporary art collection with 600-strong donation
Dutch institution’s holdings have expanded to include works by Wolfgang Tillmans and Cosima von Bonin
George Lucas abandons plans to build a museum in Chicago after two-year legal battle
Star Wars creator is now looking to California for a space to house his art collection and memorabilia
Québec City museum doubles space for local artists with $103m expansion
OMA-designed Pierre Lassonde pavilion opens in the Parc des Champs-de-Bataille
More museums turn to focus groups, but do they help or hinder?
Museums are using market research to engage audiences and avoid gaffes, but the process could rule out all but the famous and the safe
Water and sewage leaks close basement displays at Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
Objects were evacuated to higher ground as heavy rains cause serious threat of flooding
The ICP takes the downtown plunge with Bowery reopening
New venue has roughly the same exhibition space as its former midtown site, but offers easier public access in a more art-friendly location
Marie Lavandier appointed new director of Louvre-Lens
The former head of Nice museums will run the northern satellite branch on a five-year contract
Quai Branly celebrates ten years with homage to Jacques Chirac
Controversial ethnographic museum was a grand project of the former French president
The party’s over as New York’s top museums feel the pinch
MoMA, the Met and the Brooklyn Museum are planning to reduce staff numbers to help balance the books
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
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
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
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





























