Museums

Greek museums forced to close as funding runs out

“Cultural institutions on brink,” says curator of main exhibition at Thessaloniki Biennale

Metropolitan Museum plans major Fontana show for 2017

Italian artist’s New York survey could be in the Met Breuer

Studio Museum in Harlem to build new home from the ground up

David Adjaye-designed gallery aims to reflect institution's roots

US museums accept gifts with collectors’ strings attached

Institutions agree to donors’ restrictions when the prize is worth it

Why Italy’s museums need this shake-up

And why this major overhaul of the country’s state museums can still go very wrong due to vested interests and bureaucracy

Fontana as you’ve never seen him before

HangarBicocca show in Milan will throw new light on artist’s walk-in installations

Whitworth named UK museum of the year

Transformation of Manchester University's art gallery earns it £100,000 Art Fund prize

Grand Tour puts countryside on contemporary art map

Regional museums and stately homes in heart of England aim to attract more foreign visitors by treating visitors like modern m'lords

Lottery fund is a success, but grants are much harder to get

Report praises most of the first 100 projects to be completed, but the days of enormous largesse are gone

Manchester show is a taster of what’s to come at Hong Kong’s vast M+ museum

The selection of 80 works is a peek at the Swiss collector Uli Sigg’s comprehensive collection of contemporary Chinese art

Why private museums founders are coming under fire

Within shiny new Fondation Louis Vuitton, collectors are criticised over “narcissistic” vanity projects

Hong Kong Museum of Art to finally begin its major renovation

Delays mean the city will have no public art museum for at least three years

Damien Hirst to open London space in October

Inaugural exhibition at Newport Street Gallery will be solo show for British artist John Hoyland

Volkswagen’s extended sponsorship deal to include Greater New York survey at MoMA PS1

MoMA is ‘das museum’, German carmaker says, as it expands support to cover digital education, exhibitions and events for the next two years

V&A’s first steps in southern China

London institution introduces contribution to biennial in Shenzhen ahead of 2017 opening of its new gallery in the city

Chinese billionaire collector partners with Institute of Contemporary Arts in London

Adrian Cheng will support exhibitions by emerging Chinese artists at the institution

French museum directors ordered to keep their expenses in check

Culture ministry cracks down after media reports that the Centre Pompidou’s former general director spent tens of thousands of euros on taxis

National Gallery Singapore to open with a little help from the Pompidou

Paris institution will co-organise the inaugural exhibition at the museum next year, expanding its empire in Asia

Young French-Japanese architects win Guggenheim Helsinki competition

Jury picks Moreau Kusunoki's design of pavilions beneath "lighthouse" with potential to grow <br>

Louvre Abu Dhabi will not open until the end of 2016

Year-long delay confirmed by museum’s president in Paris this week

Artnews

Avignon museum plans stellar reopening show

Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer and Nan Goldin, among others, will go on show in the refurbished Lambert Collection

Yaruba prince to build museum for his Lagos collection

Pan Atlantic University will provide the land for Prince Yemisi Shyllon's institution

Broad ‘intensifies’ its collection ahead of Los Angeles museum opening

Foundation acquires political work by Longo and Murakami’s biggest painting

Richard Armstrong interview: Guggenheim's director on its projects in Helsinki, Abu Dhabi and back home in New York

Foundation and Finnish partners seek best architect for proposed Nordic satellite while Frank Gehry refines plans for Saadiyat Island museum&nbsp; <br>