Museums

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

Solo Calder show is a first for Russia

Artist’s grandson welcomes ‘long overdue’ retrospective at the Pushkin featuring more than 50 works

A Home for interdisciplinary art opens in Manchester

The inaugural exhibition at the new $25m arts complex in northern England focuses on affairs of the heart

Invitations are in the mail: Anne Pasternak outlines her welcoming vision for Brooklyn

The newly appointed museum director plans to promote site-specific and politically engaged projects

Pompidou outposts to pop-up across China?

The new president of the Paris museum was in China last week to discuss joint projects with Chinese officials

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Rijksmuseum crowned European Museum of the Year

Dutch national museum of art and history sets new record as more than half a million people visit Late Rembrandt exhibition

‘If you’re looking for me, you’ll probably find me in the galleries’

Matthew Teitelbaum—who starts his new job as the director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in August—on what it takes to run an encyclopaedic museum today

Anne Pasternak to lead the Brooklyn Museum

The longtime leader of the public arts non-profit Creative Time will succeed outgoing director Arnold Lehman

A tree grows in the Meatpacking District

Whitney director chooses a 'Red Sunset' maple planted outside new Renzo Piano-designed building

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev new ‘superdirector’ of two Turin museums

Former Documenta director was unanimously chosen from 171 candidates

Whitney renews its commitment to young artists

Museum is launching a new programme dedicated to emerging art

US show sidesteps Russian embargo

Neue Galerie exhibition features loans from private collectors

Royal Academy unveils £50m expansion plans

Scheme includes a linking bridge and new exhibition spaces

The Met launches China show, using a Western lens

After the gala and serious fundraising, Costume Institute and Asian art department join forces to celebrate real and imaginary China

Lawnews

How to get on with artists, handle mergers and avoid lawsuits

Legal conference tackles issues facing US museums, from commissioning work to developing diversity

Taking over in Bloomsbury will be no easy task

British Museum seeks Neil MacGregor’s successor: scholar, diplomat and virtuoso fundraiser required

Louvre president shows solidarity with Iraq and Tunisia

Jean-Luc Martinez says attacks on cultural heritage marks "turning point" for universal museums

Minister hails revamped Egyptian Museum as shining example

Turin-style reforms could take place across Italy as soon as a dozen new directors are appointed

Museums in Europe and US draw up rescue plans for ravaged sites in Iraq

France takes the lead as calls grow for co-ordinated response after attacks by fanatics on Assyrian royal cities

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End of a golden era: farewell to an outstanding generation of museum directors

The impresarios of cultural institutions, they have combined deep learning with business nous. As they move on, UK museums are at a turning point