Museums

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

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

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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

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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&nbsp;launches&nbsp;photography centre in the West Bund Cultural Corridor

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India’s leading institutions suffer political setback

Directors modernising formerly moribund museums are being undermined by Hindu extremists

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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

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