Museums

Guggenheim Helsinki isn’t the only show in town

Amos Anderson Art Museum unveils bold vision for new home

MoCA Shanghai creates shop front for performance art

New space entices passers-by with a mix of art and theatre

Baku aims to keep up with the Gulf

New museums are flourishing in the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan

Grand designs on Soane’s London home

Visitors can see the architect’s newly restored living quarters for the first time in 160 years

Fear of censorship fuels debate over cash from oil industry

Companies accused of dictating museums’ programmes in return for support

Leonardo’s muse keeps her secrets as portrait returns to Milan

Thinning the painting’s varnish reveals La Belle Ferronnière's fine features, but French experts unable to confirm her identity

Tate puts return of Constable on hold

Appeal after fresh information emerges about possible Nazi loot

America is easier to see, but the whole picture remains elusive: Alexander Alberro on the Whitney’s opening exhibition

Unknown works appear with more familiar ones but a few key pieces have lost impact they once had in Breuer Building

Artistic success in America means wearing the right old school tie

Despite paying lip service to diversity, New York’s major museums, galleries and university programmes are bound tightly together in a system that favours the privileged

Director’s tour of the new Whitney Museum

Adam Weinberg points out his highlights of the building and inaugural show

The end is nigh for New York’s Museum of Biblical Art

Unable to afford Manhattan’s astronomical rents, the small secular museum will close in June with its hit exhibition of Donatello sculptures on loan from the Duomo museum

Miuccia Prada opens new home of her foundation in style

Rich mix of Roman antiquities, contemporary art and a bar designed by Wes Anderson among treats in Rem Koolhaas-converted industrial complex

Mexican artist wants to turn Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into green space

Abraham Cruzvillegas asks London’s parks to dig for art’s sake

‘MoMA was never founded to be a club’

Glenn Lowry stands by exhibitions that engage with popular culture and take some risks

Tate Modern director is heading to Berlin to run prestigious theatre

Chris Dercon will stay in London until summer 2017 as extension approaches completion

Strikes resume at London's National Gallery

Artist Ryan Gander among supporters of union protesting against museum’s plans to outsource visitor-facing and security jobs

Saved by Jackie O in the 1960s, a restored Renwick Gallery to reopen this autumn

America’s first purpose-built art gallery, located just across from the White House, has undergone a $30m renovation

Excitement builds as public opening of new Whitney approaches

Leading artists among the guests at preview parties at New York museum

Colin Bailey named head of the Morgan Library and Museum

The Renoir scholar comes to the museum after two years in San Francisco

'We are grateful that many Middle Eastern treasures are in international universal museums'

Zaki Nusseibeh of the UAE endorses the role of institutions such as the British Museum during discussion with French cultural leader Jack Lang

Curator leaves M+ to help get Hong Kong Jockey Club's cultural centre up and running

Tobias Berger crosses bay to lead art programme in former Central Police Station

New Whitney and Broad Museum on trend with vast column-free space

Super-sized, flexible spaces are the latest must-have, but curators and budgets can suffer

Boom to bust: Brazil's arts lose out as economy stalls

Funding squeeze causes museums and institutions around the country to postpone or cancel exhibitions