Museums

MaXXI outpost for earthquake-ravaged city

The Italian culture ministry plans to bring a contemporary art museum to L’Aquila

Museum attendance in Paris plummets after terrorist attacks

Visitors to the Louvre down by 35% and Pompidou's attendance reduced by half in the weeks after the atrocities

Italian museums forge ties with Bardo after Tunis attack

The National Museum in Tunis will share loans and exhibitions with Italian institutions

ArtCenter South Florida ponders how to spend bonanza

Public works, education and residencies on the agenda

Nancy Spector appointed deputy director and chief curator of Brooklyn Museum

She served at the Guggenheim Museum for almost 30 years, and says she thought she'd never leave

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Neil MacGregor announces last acquisitions before retiring from the British Museum

Outgoing director’s portrait by Wolfgang Tillmans and a Lampedusa Cross among works added to collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, hits another roadblock

Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s €3m grant withdrawn, but institution plans to reapply for funding in new year

Madrid’s Royal Collections settles dispute with Prado museum

Four Old Master paintings, including Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, to remain on view

Speed Art Museum asks artists to dig into Kentucky history

Five artists are creating site-specific commissions for Louisville ahead of museum's reopening

Getty brings Latin American artists to Los Angeles

Foundation is providing cash for residencies in the city ahead of 2017 programme of exhibitions and events

MoMA swings into the 1960s with new collection display

The museum will reinstall its fourth floor galleries with international works from the “boundary-crossing” decade

An Impressionist garden grows in the Bronx

The New York Botanical Garden plans to celebrate its 125th anniversary with an exhibition dedicated to American Impressionism

Lina Bo Bardi's radical displays return to Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Modernist architect's glass easels, which make paintings seemingly float, were removed in 1990s<br> <br>

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The Art Newspaper's 12 best Christmas gifts

We trawled through museum shops, galleries and bookstores to bring you the finest arty delights

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Regional UK museums given boost to acquire works by leading contemporary British artists

Contemporary Art Society and Sfumato Foundation launch Great Works scheme to combat London bias

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Jack Persekian steps down as director of new Palestinian Museum

Institution is due to open near Jerusalem next year

Whitney Museum turns over its column-free fifth floor to artists

The museum’s new programme Open Plan will present large-scale installations by Michael Heizer, Andrea Fraser and others

Hundreds protest oil sponsorship at Louvre during UN climate change conference

International activists arrested after spilling fake oil in the museum entrance

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Korean artists protest appointment of former Barcelona museum director due to censorship concerns

Bartomeu Marí—the new director of MMCA in Seoul—stepped down earlier this year over controversial sculpture exhibit

V&A’s new European Galleries paint a broader picture of history

After years of delay, completed refurbishment expands understanding of the period from 1600 to 1815

Climate change activists to ‘seed bomb’ Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern

Organisers of Deadline Festival are protesting the museum’s sponsorship deal with BP

Franklin Sirmans reveals major Pamm purchase

Stan Douglas’s epic video, jointly acquired with Lacma, is first step in growing collection

New contemporary art centre in Jamaica to open with Basquiat show

Art adviser Rachael Barrett plans network of spaces across the Caribbean