Museums
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
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



























