Museums

Rauschenberg and O’Keeffe lead Tate’s 2016 programme, but who is Bhupen Khakhar?

The late Indian artist’s vibrant homoerotic canvases will hang in Tate Modern next summer

British Museum bolsters its collection with first Caribbean art commission

Zak Ové’s sculptures will be unveiled in the Great Court this week, before going on display in the African galleries

Australian gambling millionaire acquires acclaimed oil installation

Richard Wilson’s 20:50 work will leave the Saatchi Gallery in London, and head for David Walsh’s museum in Tasmania—but may go on a world tour first

Kanye West and Steve McQueen discuss their new co-production now on show at Lacma

But why the reluctance to call the nine-minute piece a “music video”?

Beleaguered Barcelona museum gets a new director

Macba contemporary art space appoints Ferran Barenblit after censorship row

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Self-censoring museums have to be braver

The fear of public opinion or the hint of legal action can cause nervous curators and directors to cancel shows when they might not need to

Sol LeWitt’s conceptual works installed for first time since the 1970s

Drawings defy time as they go on show in Santander's Botín Foundation

Founder of Jewish museum injured in Moscow shooting

Jewish organisation concerned attack on collector and businessman Sergei Ustinov may be anti-Semitic

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British Museum could send loans worth £1bn to the Gulf

Finest Assyrian relief from Nimrud among objects being valued for possible display in Abu Dhabi museum

Louvre’s superstore to go ahead despite protests

Architects founded by Richard Rogers picked for long-planned project to move collections from Paris to site near Louvre-Lens

Culture fights back in Tunisia

Sufi-inspired exhibition aims to rescue Islam from the extremists

Newly expanded Lambert Collection reopens with gifts from Abdessemed and Vezzoli

Museum has doubled its exhibition space in historic headquarters in Avignon

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