Museums
Taste, sound, smell: have curators gone too far?
Two galleries recently staged shows that engaged other senses as well as vision. Our editor and a technology writer disagree on their merits
France and The Netherlands to share ownership of Rembrandt portraits
Masterpieces will be exhibited together, alternating between the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre
Visitors down 35% as National Gallery strike continues
Half the museum's rooms have been closed since August
Orhan Pamuk’s novel-inspired museum to get London edition
Works housed at the Museum of Innocence will go on show at Somerset House next year
Video art coming to a UK museum near you
The Art Fund teams up with London's Thomas Dane Gallery to help cash-strapped public collections buy new media works
Dia abandons previous plans for new building in Chelsea
In an exclusive interview, Jessica Morgan tells us how she aims to use the foundation’s existing Manhattan real estate and bring “equilibrium” to all of the institution's spaces
First look at Damien Hirst’s much anticipated Vauxhall gallery space
John Hoyland’s "bold" canvases shine at Newport Street Gallery critics preview, but YBA is a no-show
British Museum trustees look to Dresden to find new director
German-born Hartwig Fischer’s formal appointment expected by British Prime Minister
Institut du Monde Arabe brings Scheherazade’s 1,001 nights to northern France
The Tourcoing outpost of the Parisian museum for Arabian culture due to move to historic building in city centre
Competition to design Qatar’s Art Mill heats up
Established names as well as young designers among the 26 firms chosen for longlist
Musée d’Orsay closed today due to a strike, interrupting the opening of prostitution show
A staff meeting is planned early Wednesday to decide whether to continue the labour protest
Tate Modern to unveil new extension in June 2016
Fundraising challenges and complexity of building design delayed completion by four years
Performers tell museums to get their act together on fees
Institutions are spending millions on spaces for performance but some curators are “surprised they have to pay live art performers at all”
Getty becomes first museum to restitute Armenian art removed during genocide
The institution will get to keep the brilliantly illuminated gospel pages in its collection after legal settlement
The Broad: a first look
Highly anticipated LA museum opens this weekend with star works from its collection, including Kusama's Infinity Room and ten pieces by Jeff Koons
Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening
Every gallery will be open to the public for the first time in 50 years
Scottish museum buys 17th-century Le Marchand ivories
Huguenot carver came to Edinburgh after facing persecution in his native France
Franklin Sirmans reveals his priorities as new director of Pérez Art Museum Miami
Lacma curator wastes no time getting to know institution and city
British Museum signs deal to send touring shows to Spain
A €2m partnership with foundation of savings bank includes exhibitions on ancient Greece and Egypt
Four years on and Norway is still divided on massacre memorial
Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg's monument, which calls for a slice of the Sørbråten peninsula to be cut out like “an open wound”, was due for completion in July