Established names as well as young designers among the 26 firms chosen for longlist

A staff meeting is planned early Wednesday to decide whether to continue the labour protest

Fundraising challenges and complexity of building design delayed completion by four years

Institutions are spending millions on spaces for performance but some curators are “surprised they have to pay live art performers at all”

The institution will get to keep the brilliantly illuminated gospel pages in its collection after legal settlement

Highly anticipated LA museum opens this weekend with star works from its collection, including Kusama's Infinity Room and ten pieces by Jeff Koons

Every gallery will be open to the public for the first time in 50 years

Huguenot carver came to Edinburgh after facing persecution in his native France

Lacma curator wastes no time getting to know institution and city

A €2m partnership with foundation of savings bank includes exhibitions on ancient Greece and Egypt

Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg's monument, which calls for a slice of the Sørbråten peninsula to be cut out like “an open wound”, was due for completion in July

Priest resigns after outrage over appointment to run World Heritage Site

Art trade up in arms over implications of draft bill that aims to protect the import and export of cultural property

Finaldi and Rothschild take over as outsourcing deal for warding services triggers indefinite walkout

Instituto Inhotim is looking for wealthy sponsors to fund its single-artist galleries

Museum dedicated to the art of climbing offers sweeping views

The Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia to show its collection of more than 1,000 garments

Islam is the focus of north-west China’s first contemporary art institution

Exhibitions focus on more subtle ways artists were influenced by Hurricane Katrina