Museums
Local councils resist temptation to cash-in on their art—for the time being
Budgets cuts and closures across England increase fears that sell-offs will follow<br>
Swap shop: the stories behind six objects in Pia Camil’s New Museum installation
Find out why visitors brought a glass chicken, a Mardi Gras wig, a vintage hat, a diary page, a quilt and a package of seaweed for the artist’s first solo show
Louvre-Lens director Xavier Dectot steps down after five years, and heads for Edinburgh
Medieval expert will head the department of art and design at the National Museum of Scotland
The 21st-century Tate is a commonwealth of ideas
Museums must widen the ways in which they serve their audiences to reflect new forms of social interaction
New Lithuanian art space to open in 2019
The first museum dedicated to Lithuanian Modern and contemporary art will open in the country’s capital
For-profit Parisian museum in receivership
Founder of the Pinacothèque hopes to restructure the institution
France builds grand alliance to protect cultural heritage
Louvre director’s plan calls for co-ordinated response to destruction in Syria and Iraq
A uniquely British phenomenon: how museums sprang up in the UK
From the 1860s, a network of museums were founded nationwide
The Year Ahead: museums opening in 2016
A look at the top institutions due to launch worldwide in the coming year
Taxing times: private museums under scrutiny by US government
Who benefits most from tax breaks on private art museums: patrons or the public?
Our pick of the top museum acquisitions of 2015
Major gifts and purchases from around the world that stood above the rest
Vik Muniz to reveal flip side of Mauritshuis’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer
Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa
London’s ICA to stay put in historic Nash House
Director Gregor Muir hopes to revamp spaces
Kenneth Griffin gives MoMA $40m—one of the New York museum's largest ever donations
The hedge-fund manager has also funded the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Whitney Museum
Bridget Riley helps students access British Museum gems
The artist's foundation is funding a three-year project to bring the museum's drawings to students outside London
Susie Lingham steps down as director of the Singapore Art Museum after only two years
Management is in discussions with the UK-educated academic about her role in the 2016 Singapore Biennale <p> </p>
2015's best new museums
Prestigious institutions have sprung up around the world, from the Prada Foundation in Milan to the Broad in Los Angeles
Germany could pay $3m to borrow Tehran’s Modern art
Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Spending review signals grim divide in UK
No cuts for national museums but regionals face ripple effect of reduced funding for local authorities