Museums

Better late than never: Greek shipping magnate’s museum nears completion after 20 years

What you see is only half of what you get: five of the ten storeys will be underground

More foreigners than Brits to visit UK’s top museums

Boost for tourism as rising numbers of visitors flock to London and beyond

MFA Boston is latest museum to shed its art school

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), is to merge with the city’s Tufts University this summer

Design museum rises in China—with a little help from the V&A

Partnership with state-owned conglomerate is a first for the London museum

It’s reigning men in Los Angeles

New show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art focuses on the oft-overlooked history of men's fashion

Jackie Chan’s bronzes draw critics and vandals to new Taipei museum

Anti-China activists throw paint on replica statues donated by the actor to new $250m branch of the National Palace Museum in south Taiwan

A tale fit for Homer: the decade-long odyssey of Athens’s National Museum of Contemporary Art

The saga behind a much-delayed home for the city’s contemporary art collection reflects many of modern Greece’s woes

The really white cube: New York’s culture groups less diverse than they think

Survey conducted by the city’s cultural affairs department finds workforce does not match up with demographics

Contemporary art space springs up on the Caribbean isle of Martinique

Inaugural exhibition dedicated to Hervé Télémaque is organised by Centre Pompidou curators

Long-time curator James Rondeau named director of Art Institute of Chicago

Last year, he secured the much sought-after collection of local patrons Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson for the museum

V-A-C Foundation unveils plans for Renzo Piano-designed museum for Moscow

Vast contemporary art centre in former power station will include 100m-long nave

Record crowds brave Moscow cold for blockbuster show

Valentin Serov exhibition is Tretyakov Gallery’s most popular in 50 years

Met plans shows on Max Beckmann and Marsden Hartley for Fifth Avenue home

All the talk may be about its move to the Breuer building, but the museum will have some significant Modern art shows in its main building

Unterlinden Museum, home of the Isenheim Altarpiece, officially reopened

The €44m renovation and expansion will be fully completed this spring

How university museums bridge the gap between art and science

The Berkeley Art Museum, which reopens this month, joins host of institutions looking to cross disciplinary boundaries

Museum of London looks for architect for Smithfield project

Plans are in motion to move the collection from the Barbican to the Victorian market

Prado acquires Fra Angelico works from Spanish duke in €18m ‘gentleman’s agreement’

The deal includes the 15th-century Virgin of the Pomegranate and a small panel by the artist

Listen up! Gardner Museum plans sound art show

Eight artist present works in the galleries, gardens and nearby train station in Boston

Dresden buys back Kirchner painting seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate art’

Expressionist work confiscated for Third Reich’s ‘shaming exhibitions’ returns to Germany

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Palestinian Museum to open in May

Inaugural show will focus on the objects that individual Palestinians would never part with

South Korea tops global list for private art museums

Private Art Museum Report highlights rapid rise of institutions across the world over the past decade

Smithsonian acquires Martin Luther King portrait bust for African American history museum

A similar work sits in President Obama’s Oval Office, next to a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln

Five questions for the director of the Bardo Museum

Moncef Ben Moussa describes the museum's efforts to rebuild after a terrorist attack at the museum killed 23 people last year

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Tate Modern names Frances Morris as new director

Chris Dercon to depart after opening of new extension

New Tate Modern to devote gallery to Artist Rooms

Louise Bourgeois, whose work helped launch gallery, first artist to be featured from collection each year <br>