Museums

Squawking points

Old friends take up residence at Pamm

François Pinault denies Paris museum plan

Reports say city’s mayor will help to find site

Paris institutions protected by armed guards after attacks

Art world divided over best response in weekend after 13 November terrorist atrocities

Palestinian Museum partnership draws criticism

Not everyone is happy about the Institut du Monde Arabe's decision to co-found a museum in the West Bank

British Museum to stage exhibition of Egyptian underwater archaeology

Next year’s show will focus on recent discoveries at the mouth of the Nile

How the Barnes Foundation is reinventing itself

Philadelphia-based private museum lays plans to show non-Western art, commission contemporary works and open up to scholars

Next stop for Tehran’s Modern art collection: the Maxxi in Rome

Italian museum is latest in line to borrow works by artists including Pollock and Picasso

Public museums need a new way of working with collectors

State institutions shouldn’t collaborate with those who don’t understand their wider aims

Prisoner of Cultural Revolution receives posthumous celebration

Mu Xin Art Museum honours artist and poet whose work bridged Chinese and Western cultures

Spanish museum squabble over Old Masters ends

Works will not be transferred from the Prado to new Royal Collections museum

Qatar opens slavery museum

Institution is one of four in a new Doha development, the state’s latest bid to rebrand itself as a culture hub

UK’s national museums spared big cuts in government spending review

Chancellor George Osborne finds money for British Museum and Victoria and Albert to display objects now in store

Poland’s richest woman plans new contemporary art museum for Warsaw

Grazyna Kulczyk has sold her culture centre in Poznan to dedicate herself to the project in the Polish capital

Western curator explores works by Iranian artist in the heart of Tehran

Exhibition co-organised by Germano Celant signals Iran’s soft power offensive

Singapore National Gallery ready to spring into life

Colonial-era buildings transformed into space for Modern Southeast Asian art

Echoes of the First World War fill Tate Britain’s galleries

Susan Philipsz's sound installation features instruments used by the armed forces

Louvre's director draws up 50-point plan in response to Isil's destruction

Jean-Luc Martinez calls for safe havens for antiquities, European centre to combat smuggling and reconstruction fund

Michael Govan’s advice to collectors: buy a curator lunch

Lacma director contributes to Frick Collection's panel on the long history collecting contemporary art

Meet the new guard: Nicholas Cullinan to bring contemporary flair to London’s National Portrait Gallery

The former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to merge best practices from US and UK museums

There is more to Malevich’s Black Square than a hidden racist joke, Moscow curators reveal

Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work

Meet the new guard: How the Uffizi’s first foreign director plans to modernise the museum

Eike Schmidt has big plans for Italy's most-visited museum, from high-tech ticketing software to new tax breaks

The return of Uncle Joe Stalin and Socialist Realism?

The Russian church and state-sponsored art grow ever closer through concurrent Soviet-themed exhibitions in Moscow

Milwaukee Art Museum pulls off expansion from depths of slump

Mould flourished, floors buckled and ceilings leaked in the two buildings that housed the museum's permanent collection when it announced $34m renovation in 2009 at the height of the recession

MoMA returns expressionist landscape after decade-long detective case

The twists and turns of a mistaken provenance meant a work by Kirchner had entered the museum’s collection under the wrong title and date