Museums
Billionaire Leonard Blavatnik donates millions to V&A
Entrance hall of new extension will now be named after the Ukraine-born industrialist
Marion Ackermann named new general director of Dresden State Art Collections
She replaces Hartwig Fischer, who took up his post as director of the British Museum this month
New contemporary art museum takes shape in Beirut
Shortlist of 13 architects announced for the planned institution near the city’s National Museum
New name for the Musée du quai Branly in Paris?
Director wants to re-name the Parisian ethnographic art museum in honour of its founder, Jacques Chirac
Revamped Kunstmuseum Basel to reveal lesser-known Jackson Pollock
Following the opening of its new building this weekend, the Swiss museum will show the abstract artist’s figurative work
New Tate Modern will present a 'fully global' view of art
Museum’s extension, which is due to open in June, will help broaden story of Modernism—but £30m still needs to be raised
Singapore branch of Pinacothèque de Paris shuts too
Founder blames disappointing attendance on closure of Asian branch of for-profit museum
Is the British Museum heading east to London's Olympic park?
Smithsonian trustees due to meet today to decide whether to open satellite in Stratford <br>
Proposal to privatise Tehran’s Modern art museum causes alarm
Director denies that politicians want to transfer collection to private foundation
An interview with Connie Butler: curator and advocate for the overlooked and under-known
As the Hammer Museum secures a donation of important collection of street photography by the Japanese artist Daido Moriyama, its chief curator speaks to us about how she’s working to build the collection and exhibition programme
Is the Israel Museum’s Birds’ Head Haggadah Nazi-era loot?
The manuscript was once owned by the family of a German-Jewish politician who opposed Hitler
Austria’s Essl Museum to shut its doors after 17 years
Contemporary art collection will be kept in storage but there will be no more exhibitions
Bonn and Bern team up to show controversial Gurlitt collection
Exhibition aims to “contribute to transparency” as researchers investigate how much of the art was looted by the Nazis
Recession takes a heavy toll on Brazil’s art scene
Some museums have closed their doors as other ailing institutions look to the Olympics to raise funds
Indians and Pakistanis work together to realise Partition Museum
Project leaders announce fundraising goals before conference in Delhi
The Met gets a second chance to get contemporary art right
After 75 years of fumbling, the New York museum can use the Breuer building to play to its strengths and explore art-making across time
UK places export bar on £15m Veronese drawing
Museums may have difficulty matching steep price of remarkable work on paper
Latino and Latin American artists to meet in Pacific Standard Time
New research leads curators to rip up the rulebook ahead of the Getty’s ambitious PST: LA/LA event
Huntington expands American art galleries
The new $10.3m wing is due to open in October with an exhibition of lead donors’ 18th and early 19th-century art collection
Philippe Apeloig on the art of the museum logo
The graphic designer who has worked with several institutions discusses its raison d’être