Museums

Helsinki welcomes time travellers—and offers a glimpse into the heartbreak of others

City Museum re-opens this week with special projects after €13m development

The four major challenges that await the British Museum’s new director

With big boots to fill, Hartwig Fischer has his work cut out at an institution that pulls in nearly seven million visitors each year

Lawnews

From drones to fair use: the hottest topics in museum law

Nationalistic appropriation, brand control in reality TV shows, YouTube take-downs: American Law Institute’s annual course covered it all

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel makes last-ditch effort to save George Lucas museum

Star Wars creator could see plans thwarted by case brought by local non-profit Friends of the Parks

Mahmoud Hawari appointed new director of long-awaited Palestinian Museum

Archaeologist and cultural heritage expert will take charge of programming and building a collection

Creating value around women artists: the chief curator’s view

Moca’s Helen Molesworth explains why the gender imbalance in museums persists and what can be done to remove it

German museums under threat as cities seek to balance their books

Local authorities are targeting cultural spending as a way of cutting their deficits but are facing vocal opposition

Prizesnews

Five art spaces shortlisted for UK's premier museum prize

York Art Gallery, the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum and Bristol's Arnolfini among the contenders for Art Fund prize<br>

Artnews

Twice the size and seven storeys high: the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is ready for lift-off

Galleries filled with blue-chip gifts plus highlights of the Fisher Collection will greet visitors when museum reopens <br>

MoMA offers buyout programme to employees nearing retirement

The surprise news follows the Met's announcement of a restructuring that will probably include staff cuts

Lacma nearly halfway to goal for new building with two pledges totalling $75m

Museum has raised $275m towards $600m Peter Zumthor-designed project—but the donations come with a deadline

François Pinault to realise long-held ambition of opening Paris museum

Billionaire collector strikes deal with city’s mayor to convert historic stock exchange

Shanghai museum dedicated to 20th-century artist reopens in new venue

Liu Haisu Art Museum will also showcase work by emerging artists

Long Museum founders to open third space in just four years

Chinese collectors Wang Wei and Liu Yiqian look beyond Shanghai to vast but lesser-known city of Chongqing

Brooklyn Museum’s rehang of permanent galleries allows collection to shine

New director Anne Pasternak challenges the museum to be more “nimble”, as re-installed Egyptian, American and European displays open to the public

After years of delays, M+ to open first permanent space

New pavilion due to launch with exhibitions this autumn

Museums go Bard: the best Shakespeare exhibitions

We choose the must-see shows that commemorate the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death

Hollywood producer David Geffen gives $100m to MoMA

The donation will help fund the museum’s expansion, with three floors of the building to be named after the studio executive

Billionaire Leonard Blavatnik donates millions to V&A

Entrance hall of new extension will now be named after the Ukraine-born industrialist

Marion Ackermann named new general director of Dresden State Art Collections

She replaces Hartwig Fischer, who took up his post as director of the British Museum this month

New contemporary art museum takes shape in Beirut

Shortlist of 13 architects announced for the planned institution near the city’s National Museum

New name for the Musée du quai Branly in Paris?

Director wants to re-name the Parisian ethnographic art museum in honour of its founder, Jacques Chirac