Museums

Gerhard Richter slams proposed closure of Germany's Museum Morsbroich

Plans to shut institution and sell its seminal Modern and contemporary works are "alarming" artist says

Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum returns Khmer statue

The sculpture, which was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex during the country's civil war, is the last of its kind to leave a US public collection

Met clarifies ‘pay what you wish’ entry after legal settlement

The museum puts three-year-old lawsuit over entrance fees to rest and will change its signage to ask for 'suggested admission'

Tate Britain commissions Pablo Bronstein to fill Duveen Galleries with ‘deliciously jarring’ performances

The Buenos Aires-born, London-based is expected to draw on his interests in Baroque architecture and spectacle

A timeline of African American history, told through quilts

Pieces in the Bruce Museum show cover cultural milestones and important figures, from the early Civil Rights activist Ida B. Wells to 1967 Supreme Court case about interracial marriage

US academic takes the helm of London’s Soane museum

Bruce Boucher taught at UCL for 24 years before becoming director of Fralin Museum in Virginia

Three New York artists share their advice for the Met Breuer

Deborah Kass, Natalie Frank and T.J. Wilcox tell us what they would like to see the museum do in the Madison Avenue space

Met Breuer takes the long view of contemporary art

Inaugural exhibitions at new outpost will avoid the usual suspects

France to get its first Moroccan Cultural Centre in 2018

The project will be funded entirely by the Kingdom of Morocco

No accident: Maria Hassabi falls down gracefully at MoMA

Don’t call 9-1-1 if you spot one of the Cyprus-born choreographer’s dancers tumbled on the ground

Asia Society Museum organises Japanese sculpture show—with no loans from Japan

Works from the Kamakura period all come from US museums and private collections

Who will build Berlin’s new museum of the 20th century?

Ten proposals have made it to the next round of architecture competition

A museum of many firsts in Muscat spans two million years of Omani history

Most of the 7,000 objects in the eclectic collection have never been shown, from weaponry and manuscripts to life-size replicas of ships and castle models

Prado pulls two works from landmark Bosch exhibition

Dutch doubts over attribution led to tough action against retrospective in the artist's birthplace

The Pinacothèque de Paris shuts its doors

With its parent company in receivership, the private museum closes, citing a drop in attendance

Music and masterpieces matched up at the Met

The museum’s new Sight & Sound concert series pairs paintings and performances

Goya, Magritte and Cai Guo-Qiang feature in Arab art show

Qatar Museums presents key works from collection in Bank of Santander’s Madrid space

Rotterdam museum to rent out public space to wealthy collectors

Visitors to the new open storage facility can tour private collections—and there could even be a freeport

Booksnews

Seven tips from the top: essential job advice from US museum directors

In a new book out this month, industry leaders open up about role models, wrong turns and hard-won lessons

Schwitters’ Dada dwelling moves from island stable to Norwegian museum centrepiece

The Romsdal Museum in Molde is due to unveil three-dimensional collage considered a forerunner of installation art

Russian Modern art collection split by the Soviets to be reunited in Paris

Works amassed by Sergei Shchukin—once held in Moscow’s State Museum of New Western Art—will be shown together again at the Foundation Louis Vuitton

By planes, personal escorts and automobiles, Frida Kahlo’s work comes to Russia

Crowds come out in force for major loan exhibition dedicated to the Mexican artist at St Petersburg’s Faberge Museum

Handel and Hendrix duet under one roof

Jimi Hendrix's former girlfriend helped the Handel museum restore the rock musician's home next door

Private collection of Warhols pops up in Oxford

Beuys prints among more than 100 works drawn from Andrew and Christine Hall’s “extraordinary pack of cards”

Artnews

Bridget Riley’s art helps put spin into Louisiana’s Op art show

Survey of eye- and mind-boggling works opens in Danish museum

Artnews

Historic agreement puts V&A in pole position for photography

Move draws criticism as Bradford's National Media Museum transfers 400,000 photographic items to London