Museums

Marc-Olivier Wahler announced as the next director of Broad MSU

The role has been empty since the death of founding director Michael Rush last year

Bede’s World medieval museum could re-open after funding meltdown

Local charity in talks to take over heritage site dedicated to the venerable religious scholar

Portland Collection opens to public for first time with rarely seen Michelangelo drawing

Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire will house one of the finest aristocratic collections in England

‘This is living antiquity’: the director of the Hermitage wants to rebuild Palmyra

The Russian institution’s collection of Palmyra artefacts could be used to reconstruct the ancient Syrian city<br>

Full steam ahead for Italy’s museums reform

Increasingly complex reorganisation is ambitious—and far from finished

Who will lead the Musée d’Orsay?

Some staff question president Guy Cogeval's fitness to keep the post

Sneak peek inside the Met Breuer

The New York museum opened to the press on Tuesday with a preview of the opening exhibitions

People of Geneva say ‘non’ to museum extension designed by Jean Nouvel

The proposal for the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is sent back to the drawing board after 54% vote against it<br>

Wim Pijbes to leave Rijksmuseum for new museum on Dutch coast

Multi-millionaire collector lures director away from Amsterdam to lead contemporary art space

Artnews

Israel Museum’s longstanding and well-connected director to step aside

In new role US-born James Snyder will continue to foster Jerusalem institution’s global relationships<br>

Gerhard Richter slams proposed closure of Germany's Museum Morsbroich

Plans to shut institution and sell its seminal Modern and contemporary works are "alarming" artist says

Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum returns Khmer statue

The sculpture, which was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex during the country's civil war, is the last of its kind to leave a US public collection

Met clarifies ‘pay what you wish’ entry after legal settlement

The museum puts three-year-old lawsuit over entrance fees to rest and will change its signage to ask for 'suggested admission'

Tate Britain commissions Pablo Bronstein to fill Duveen Galleries with ‘deliciously jarring’ performances

The Buenos Aires-born, London-based is expected to draw on his interests in Baroque architecture and spectacle

A timeline of African American history, told through quilts

Pieces in the Bruce Museum show cover cultural milestones and important figures, from the early Civil Rights activist Ida B. Wells to 1967 Supreme Court case about interracial marriage

US academic takes the helm of London’s Soane museum

Bruce Boucher taught at UCL for 24 years before becoming director of Fralin Museum in Virginia

Three New York artists share their advice for the Met Breuer

Deborah Kass, Natalie Frank and T.J. Wilcox tell us what they would like to see the museum do in the Madison Avenue space

Met Breuer takes the long view of contemporary art

Inaugural exhibitions at new outpost will avoid the usual suspects

France to get its first Moroccan Cultural Centre in 2018

The project will be funded entirely by the Kingdom of Morocco

No accident: Maria Hassabi falls down gracefully at MoMA

Don’t call 9-1-1 if you spot one of the Cyprus-born choreographer’s dancers tumbled on the ground

Asia Society Museum organises Japanese sculpture show—with no loans from Japan

Works from the Kamakura period all come from US museums and private collections

Who will build Berlin’s new museum of the 20th century?

Ten proposals have made it to the next round of architecture competition

A museum of many firsts in Muscat spans two million years of Omani history

Most of the 7,000 objects in the eclectic collection have never been shown, from weaponry and manuscripts to life-size replicas of ships and castle models

Prado pulls two works from landmark Bosch exhibition

Dutch doubts over attribution led to tough action against retrospective in the artist's birthplace

The Pinacothèque de Paris shuts its doors

With its parent company in receivership, the private museum closes, citing a drop in attendance