Museums
Pakistan’s contemporary museum launches with anti-war art
President Musharraf has encouraged artists to promote a “peaceful and tolerant” image of their country through their work
New museum initiative designed to advance US foreign policy is looking for applicants
Can US museums help win the war on terror?
Hermitage nears conclusion of deal with Iran securing multiple joint exhibitions
The museum's director maintains that the agreement is no major coup
MoMA defends director’s secret pay
Glenn Lowry received more than $5m through a separate trust which the New York museum's trustees argue was “legal and ethical”
MoMA sells land and secures room for expansion
The new deal will earn them approximately $65m
Former MoMA chairman’s oddball art goes under the hammer
William Lieberman’s eclectic holdings yielded bargains
Most institutions feel that the strict conditions needed for housing art are incompatible with environmental demands. But compliance with eco-friendly requirements can pay off in the long run
Why it pays to go green
MoMA puts collection inventories online
This move will substantially increase the accessibility of it's collections
MoMA creates first permanent curatorial post for Latin American art
The museums owns around 3,000 works of Latin American art
Latin American curator for MoMA
Luís Perez-Oramas, who currently serves as adjunct curator of drawings at the museum, is the institution’s first curator of Latin American Art
MoMA completes merger with PS1
“It is like another department at the museum,” says MoMA director Glenn Lowry
MoMA's deaccessioned Picasso on show in France
Bequeathed to the museum by Nelson Rockefeller, the painting was controversially sold in 2013
MoMA generates $2 billion for New York, says report
Study calculates economic impact of 6.25m visitors over three years since the museum’s reopening in midtown Manhattan
New competition for Warsaw museum architect
Top practitioners had been excluded due to “Kafka-esque” rules
Georg Baselitz entrusts painting to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark
The director admitted they would not otherwise be able to obtain such a piece
Not enough women in the Swedish national collection, says director
Lars Nittve has asked the Swedish government for $6.8m to spend on female artists
Washington's National Gallery wraps up Vuillard catalogue plagiarism suit with $37,500 payment to Annette Leduc and Brooks Beaulieu
However, a complaint lodged against Guy Cogeval, Antoine Salomon and Mathias Chivot was met with a counter-suit arguing that evidence had been fabricated
MoMA acquires Luc Tuymans paintings
The works focus on American conservatism under the Bush administration
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish
Shortly before his death in January, William Rubin handed us his manuscript
The Art Newspaper exclusive on the memoir MoMA declined to publish: The details
Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years
Watts Gallery to sell pre-Raphaelite paintings
Money is needed to ensure the long-term survival of the institution set up by Victorian artist G.F. Watts
Terry Riley to leave MoMA
The head of Architecture and Design will instead focus on his own firm
Breaking down the maths of museum earnings: An ominous assessment of exhibition profits
There is a basic problem in suggesting that earned income can keep a museum afloat
MoMA receives 12 Philip Guston paintings
The works form part of a collection gifted to the museum by real estate developer Edward R. Broida
MoMA appoints new chief curator of drawings
Cornelia H. Butler, previously at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, scores the role
MoMA reveals restock of its contemporary galleries in yearly rehang
Around 50 new works are on view, including 16 examples never before seen at the museum
MoMA acquires $25 million Matisse
The plum blossoms painting is one of the artist's last works
US aluminium giant sends Warhol to Russia
The Alcoa Corporation is marking its entry into Russia by funding the tour of a Warhol Museum show