Museums

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

Turkey plans to make a splash with new museum

Country’s ministry of culture approves project to make underwater Byzantine basilica a tourist attraction

Construction of Pushkin Museum expansion to start next year

Major building project will transform the Moscow institution into a “Museum Town”

British Museum’s Neil MacGregor will retire on a high

“Extraordinary contribution” praised as director sets sights on Mumbai and Berlin

Russian dealer to help Abramovic get Montenegro art centre off the ground

<p> Performance artist’s Bauhaus-inspired venue was meant to open in 2013 </p>

UK museum visitor numbers ‘not comparable’

Culture department says changes in data methodology stymie comparisons between latest figures and previous years<br>

Lawnews

California court says Cranach suit can go ahead

Statute of limitations does not apply in Goudstikker heirs’ claim against Norton Simon Museum, ruling finds<br>

Leading art libraries pull together to make research available on the web

Joint project to place 31.5 million images on a single website would “revolutionise” art history, says Frick Collection’s Inge Reist

Almost one third of solo shows in US museums go to artists represented by five galleries

Survey reveals prevalence of Pace, Gagosian, David Zwirner, Marian Goodman and Hauser &amp; Wirth in exhibition programming

Masterpiece of ancient Egyptian art could be a modern forgery

The “Meidum Geese” in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum may have been painted by a 19th-century curator

Vienna museum director calls for time limit on Nazi-loot restitution claims

But critics say the focus should be on how provenance research can be carried out efficiently and rapidly

"Dürer and his Circle" exhibition at Basel's Kunstmuseum unveils city council's bounty of prints and drawings

Acquired in the 17th century, the Amerbach collection provides insight into how Dürer's techniques were implemented by his contemporaries

"Georg Baselitz: Back Then, In Between and Today" exhibition in Munich will trace the patterns that run through his career

The retrospective, which will span from the beginning of his career to its current phase, will be held at the Haus der Kunst

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Warhol museum expansion gains Lower East Side traction

The institution has formed a partnership with Delancey Street Associates