Museums

Met plans shows on Max Beckmann and Marsden Hartley for Fifth Avenue home

All the talk may be about its move to the Breuer building, but the museum will have some significant Modern art shows in its main building

Unterlinden Museum, home of the Isenheim Altarpiece, officially reopened

The €44m renovation and expansion will be fully completed this spring

How university museums bridge the gap between art and science

The Berkeley Art Museum, which reopens this month, joins host of institutions looking to cross disciplinary boundaries

Museum of London looks for architect for Smithfield project

Plans are in motion to move the collection from the Barbican to the Victorian market

Prado acquires Fra Angelico works from Spanish duke in €18m ‘gentleman’s agreement’

The deal includes the 15th-century Virgin of the Pomegranate and a small panel by the artist

Listen up! Gardner Museum plans sound art show

Eight artist present works in the galleries, gardens and nearby train station in Boston

Dresden buys back Kirchner painting seized by Nazis as ‘degenerate art’

Expressionist work confiscated for Third Reich’s ‘shaming exhibitions’ returns to Germany

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Palestinian Museum to open in May

Inaugural show will focus on the objects that individual Palestinians would never part with

South Korea tops global list for private art museums

Private Art Museum Report highlights rapid rise of institutions across the world over the past decade

Smithsonian acquires Martin Luther King portrait bust for African American history museum

A similar work sits in President Obama’s Oval Office, next to a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln

Five questions for the director of the Bardo Museum

Moncef Ben Moussa describes the museum's efforts to rebuild after a terrorist attack at the museum killed 23 people last year

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Tate Modern names Frances Morris as new director

Chris Dercon to depart after opening of new extension

New Tate Modern to devote gallery to Artist Rooms

Louise Bourgeois, whose work helped launch gallery, first artist to be featured from collection each year <br>

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

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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

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France builds grand alliance to protect cultural heritage

Louvre director’s plan calls for co-ordinated response to destruction in Syria and Iraq

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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?