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
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 <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