Museums
MoMA staff protest wage and healthcare cuts
Contract negotiations continue between the museum and its employees
As a generation of directors reaches retirement, fresh faces prepare to take over US museums
The competition to find the right director grows as US museum boards look beyond the usual suspects
Calls to open looted-art archives grow louder
Museums and the trade want to put an end to the Catch-22 situation with Medici and Becchina
Five more divisive years for museums and art galleries
The new Conservative government has so far kept quiet about its plans for the arts but the signs point to a fractious battle for resources between national and local institutions
British Museum to send star objects to the Gulf
Assyrian reliefs among the 500 loans earmarked for long stay in Abu Dhabi
Lacma buys ‘casta’ painting that was found under a sofa
The 18th-century work is an early example of racial profiling
Lacma’s conservators discover 1960s colours in Ottoman interior
Damascene reception room is being restored before making its museum debut in Saudi Arabia in 2016
International photography centre joins Shanghai’s museum mile
Globetrotting photojournalist launches photography centre in the West Bund Cultural Corridor
India’s leading institutions suffer political setback
Directors modernising formerly moribund museums are being undermined by Hindu extremists
Lagos collector plans private museum to house 1,500 works
Retired stockbroker began buying in 1967
Federal agents comb records for disgraced dealer Subhash Kapoor's sales and gifts
Authorities claim that Kapoor organised global trade in stolen Asian antiquities, casting doubt on some of his gifts to international museums
Museum officials on hunt for lost Cranach
The painting of Venus and Cupid hung in Hitler’s breakfast room
MoMA struggles to fulfil sculptor’s last wishes
Scott Burton left his estate to the New York museum—but prices for his work have tumbled
Where Marie Antoinette laid her head: Fontainebleau’s reinstated Turkish bedroom opens to the public
Opening marks the completion of a seven-year restoration project
Museums pay tribute to the art that Aids made
The 1980s art world was devastated by HIV/Aids, but artists made era-defining work even as their peers were dying from the disease. Now, US institutions are recognising the extent of their legacy, with numerous shows planned
MoMA and Tate directors urge UAE to lift artists' travel bans
Leading directors and curators express support of artists Walid Raad and Ashok Sukumaran <br>
Qatar Museums to create vast Art Mill on Doha waterfront
Architectural competition launched to convert flour mill and grain silos into galleries and super store<br>
French art space forged from metalworks
Venue for socio-political art to open in converted armaments factory in Maubourguet
Tate Modern secures £6m in extra government funding
Promised increase to help run extension made quietly last year as public spending cuts expected elsewhere
Billionaire collector puts Kiev museum on hold
Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian billionaire who has run a private gallery in Kiev since 2006, has shelved plans to build an “iconic” new museum in the city. “Now is not the time to build in Ukraine,” he tells The Art Newspaper. In 2011, Pinchuk revealed that he was planning to hire a top international architecture firm to create a “landmark building” in Kiev within five years. But Russia’s military incursion into the country has halted his ambitions, at least for now. It has also hit his business hard. Pinchuk’s pipe manufacturing company, Interpipe, currently has no revenue from Russia, once its main market, according to Forbes.
Berlinische Galerie reopens after refurbishment
German capital’s 1960s urban renewal is explored in new shows
Barbra Streisand to donate a major portrait to Lacma
Sony emails reveal museum’s negotiations over actor's painting by Singer Sargent as well as Ann Ziff's collection