Museums
Meet the new guard: Nicholas Cullinan to bring contemporary flair to London’s National Portrait Gallery
The former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to merge best practices from US and UK museums
There is more to Malevich’s Black Square than a hidden racist joke, Moscow curators reveal
Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work
Meet the new guard: How the Uffizi’s first foreign director plans to modernise the museum
Eike Schmidt has big plans for Italy's most-visited museum, from high-tech ticketing software to new tax breaks
The return of Uncle Joe Stalin and Socialist Realism?
The Russian church and state-sponsored art grow ever closer through concurrent Soviet-themed exhibitions in Moscow
Milwaukee Art Museum pulls off expansion from depths of slump
Mould flourished, floors buckled and ceilings leaked in the two buildings that housed the museum's permanent collection when it announced $34m renovation in 2009 at the height of the recession
MoMA returns expressionist landscape after decade-long detective case
The twists and turns of a mistaken provenance meant a work by Kirchner had entered the museum’s collection under the wrong title and date
UK partners with India for major cross-cultural festival in 2017
The British Museum and British Library will contribute to events across the country
Paris museums reopen and security increased after attacks
Artist, architect and critic among those killed by terrorists
Museums of Paris close as days of national mourning begin
Ministry of culture orders emergency measure after terrorist attacks
Rodin in a new light
Renovated Paris museum reopens with emphasis on sculptor's creative process
Modern art museum group in turmoil after three board members resign
Leading directors oppose Cimam president at centre of censorship row in Barcelona
Paris Tableau fair visitors help buy painting for Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
The work by Claudius Jacquand shows a view of the museum’s home, a former Benedictine convent
We’ll store your artefacts, US tells Syrian museums
New framework stresses return principle but some fear that traffickers in illicit objects could abuse it
Italian Renaissance panels reunited after centuries apart
Antonello da Messina’s triptych brought together in 15-year loan agreement
A question of censorship: 25 years after the Mapplethorpe trial
The culture wars may be over, but the debate over what public institutions can show lives on
V&A unveils new Japanese display with ancient treasures and a Sony Walkman
Refurbished gallery gives more space to Modern objects but older artefacts still take pride of place
Guggenheim gets digital with first online show
Participants, including Douglas Coupland, invest in a simulated stock market shaped by technological developments
New home, new blood: Whitney appoints young curators for 2017 biennial
Thirty-somethings Christopher Y Lew and Mia Locks will lead a curatorial team that looks beyond the New York scene and institutional shows
Berlin’s most-visited museum gets a makeover
Renovation of the Pergamon Museum expected to be complete by 2019, with a new wing dedicated to Egyptian art to open by 2026
Reopened Duomo’s original façade reconstructed in Florence
Full-scale re-creation is part of ambitious new display of masterpieces at Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
Tehran’s Modern art could travel to the US
Hirshhorn holds preliminary talks but Berlin first in queue to borrow works by artists such as Gauguin, Pollock, Rothko, Picasso and Bacon
Russian museum security will remain despite police cutbacks, says deputy prime minister
Institutions face attacks of vandalism as society becomes more unsettled
Culture workers threaten national action as Italy moves to limit right to strike
Tension is at an all-time high following strikes that shut down the Colosseum and Pompeii
Russia’s private museums defy the economic odds
Institutions are burgeoning in the face of sanctions and currency devaluation
