Museums

Art is a weapon as Russia and US fight cultural war

Relations worse than ever after federal US judge imposes $43.7m fine over Jewish Orthodox library

Top London shows during Frieze week

Our pick of the city's must-see exhibitions—just the tonic to avoid art-fair fatigue

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New art prize and public garden to mark Hepworth Wakefield’s fifth birthday

The collector David Roberts is backing the £30,000 biennial award for contributions to sculpture

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The slow death of regional museums in Europe

In the face of radically reduced state support, museums must embrace a new model of funding for the future

Private fortunes drive Beirut’s museum boom

Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano and David Adjaye get involved as donors step in to fill the funding gap

London's National Gallery fully reopens after 111-day strike

Union members reached agreement with gallery over work conditions

Lars Nittve to leave M+ just as building work in Hong Kong begins

Swedish director steps down having laid firm foundations for museum in West Kowloon

Centre Pompidou president promises pop-ups in Korea and China

Exhibitions on the Beat Generation, Beirut and Arte Povera also in the pipeline

Celebrating the civilisations Isil seeks to destroy

Detroit Institute of Arts unveils new gallery devoted to the Ancient Middle East

The Broad: as big as its founders’ influence

The art in Los Angeles’ new private museum is as titanic as the funding

Getty brings ancient athletes face to face

Intimately related bronze figures are on show together for the first time

Colchester’s flagship arts centre on the brink

The £27m, Viñoly-designed Firstsite gallery faces closure without regular government funding

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Agents of change: how dynamic directors have transformed the UK’s regional scene

Funding cuts spell trouble for the UK’s smaller museums and galleries, but their directors are making great strides through imaginative programming, striking buildings and links with their national peers<br>

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Taste, sound, smell: have curators gone too far?

Two galleries recently staged shows that engaged other senses as well as vision. Our editor and a technology writer disagree on their merits

France and The Netherlands to share ownership of Rembrandt portraits

Masterpieces will be exhibited together, alternating between the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre

Visitors down 35% as National Gallery strike continues

Half the museum's rooms have been closed since August

Orhan Pamuk’s novel-inspired museum to get London edition

Works housed at the Museum of Innocence will go on show at Somerset House next year

Video art coming to a UK museum near you

The Art Fund teams up with London's Thomas Dane Gallery to help cash-strapped public collections buy new media works