Museums
Our pick of the top museum acquisitions of 2015
Major gifts and purchases from around the world that stood above the rest
Vik Muniz to reveal flip side of Mauritshuis’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer
Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa
London’s ICA to stay put in historic Nash House
Director Gregor Muir hopes to revamp spaces
Kenneth Griffin gives MoMA $40m—one of the New York museum's largest ever donations
The hedge-fund manager has also funded the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Whitney Museum
Bridget Riley helps students access British Museum gems
The artist's foundation is funding a three-year project to bring the museum's drawings to students outside London
Susie Lingham steps down as director of the Singapore Art Museum after only two years
Management is in discussions with the UK-educated academic about her role in the 2016 Singapore Biennale <p> </p>
2015's best new museums
Prestigious institutions have sprung up around the world, from the Prada Foundation in Milan to the Broad in Los Angeles
Germany could pay $3m to borrow Tehran’s Modern art
Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Spending review signals grim divide in UK
No cuts for national museums but regionals face ripple effect of reduced funding for local authorities
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
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Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s €3m grant withdrawn, but institution plans to reapply for funding in new year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>