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