Museums

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>

Moscow’s Garage Museum opens with one eye on Soviet past, the other on the future

Inaugural exhibitions highlight its archive of non-conformist art, while new commissions keep the institution focused on the present

The Rothschild collection that got away

The British Museum reopens the Waddesdon Bequest Wunderkammer, funded by Lord Rothschild

Leonardo DiCaprio plans to give environmental work to Lacma

Actor’s gift of Solar Reserve, last seen at Lincoln Center, is all about raising climate change awareness

Battle of the fashion foundations: Prada vs Louis Vuitton

How the new contemporary art spaces in Paris and Milan measure up

Cleopatra comes to Singapore

Asian branch of the Pinacothèque de Paris opens with eye on the box office

Dasha Zhukova’s Garage to reopen in new-look Gorky Park pavilion

Rem Koolhaas transforms Soviet-era pavilion and Yayoi Kusama brings Infinity Room and polka dots to Moscow<br>

Frick cancels controversial expansion plan

The museum will not build on its Russell Page-design garden, as initially proposed

Gambling millionaire bets on YBA works

David Walsh to sell Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary along with pieces by Chapman Brothers, Damien Hirst and Jenny Saville