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

New pavilion due to launch with exhibitions this autumn

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

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

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

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

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

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

Following the opening of its new building this weekend, the Swiss museum will show the abstract artist’s figurative work

Museum’s extension, which is due to open in June, will help broaden story of Modernism—but £30m still needs to be raised

Founder blames disappointing attendance on closure of Asian branch of for-profit museum

Smithsonian trustees due to meet today to decide whether to open satellite in Stratford <br>

Director denies that politicians want to transfer collection to private foundation

As the Hammer Museum secures a donation of important collection of street photography by the Japanese artist Daido Moriyama, its chief curator speaks to us about how she’s working to build the collection and exhibition programme

The manuscript was once owned by the family of a German-Jewish politician who opposed Hitler

Contemporary art collection will be kept in storage but there will be no more exhibitions

Exhibition aims to “contribute to transparency” as researchers investigate how much of the art was looted by the Nazis

After 75 years of fumbling, the New York museum can use the Breuer building to play to its strengths and explore art-making across time