Museums
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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
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
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
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


























