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Regional UK museums given boost to acquire works by leading contemporary British artists

Contemporary Art Society and Sfumato Foundation launch Great Works scheme to combat London bias

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Jack Persekian steps down as director of new Palestinian Museum

Institution is due to open near Jerusalem next year

Whitney Museum turns over its column-free fifth floor to artists

The museum’s new programme Open Plan will present large-scale installations by Michael Heizer, Andrea Fraser and others

Hundreds protest oil sponsorship at Louvre during UN climate change conference

International activists arrested after spilling fake oil in the museum entrance

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Korean artists protest appointment of former Barcelona museum director due to censorship concerns

Bartomeu Marí—the new director of MMCA in Seoul—stepped down earlier this year over controversial sculpture exhibit

V&A’s new European Galleries paint a broader picture of history

After years of delay, completed refurbishment expands understanding of the period from 1600 to 1815

Climate change activists to ‘seed bomb’ Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern

Organisers of Deadline Festival are protesting the museum’s sponsorship deal with BP

Franklin Sirmans reveals major Pamm purchase

Stan Douglas’s epic video, jointly acquired with Lacma, is first step in growing collection

New contemporary art centre in Jamaica to open with Basquiat show

Art adviser Rachael Barrett plans network of spaces across the Caribbean

Squawking points

Old friends take up residence at Pamm

François Pinault denies Paris museum plan

Reports say city’s mayor will help to find site

Paris institutions protected by armed guards after attacks

Art world divided over best response in weekend after 13 November terrorist atrocities

Palestinian Museum partnership draws criticism

Not everyone is happy about the Institut du Monde Arabe's decision to co-found a museum in the West Bank

British Museum to stage exhibition of Egyptian underwater archaeology

Next year’s show will focus on recent discoveries at the mouth of the Nile

How the Barnes Foundation is reinventing itself

Philadelphia-based private museum lays plans to show non-Western art, commission contemporary works and open up to scholars

Next stop for Tehran’s Modern art collection: the Maxxi in Rome

Italian museum is latest in line to borrow works by artists including Pollock and Picasso

Public museums need a new way of working with collectors

State institutions shouldn’t collaborate with those who don’t understand their wider aims

Prisoner of Cultural Revolution receives posthumous celebration

Mu Xin Art Museum honours artist and poet whose work bridged Chinese and Western cultures

Spanish museum squabble over Old Masters ends

Works will not be transferred from the Prado to new Royal Collections museum

Qatar opens slavery museum

Institution is one of four in a new Doha development, the state’s latest bid to rebrand itself as a culture hub