New Museums

Newsarchive

Marina Abramovic hires Rem Koolhaas to design her centre

The museum will purportedly need $8m in funds

Museumsarchive

Warsaw’s modern art museum debacle

Row over who is to blame for the delay

Osloarchive

Oslo could get a contemporary art space bigger than the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern

A fortress's sewage works may soon become home to contemporary art installations

Eastern European cities look to Tate Modern: developing modern museums and contemporary spaces

Budapest, Zagreb and Warsaw raise their game with newer, bigger, better exhibition spaces

Jerusalemarchive

Controversy over Israeli Tolerance Museum site

Court rules in favour of building despite claims that Muslim graves will be desecrated

Newsarchive

Daniel Libeskind in war of words with Berlusconi

The architect has described the Italian Prime Minister as a xenophobe who “hates foreigners” and compares his government to the Fascist regime

Indiaarchive

Plans for Kolkata Museum of Modern Art: India's answer to Tate Modern?

A major new museum to be built in eastern India is being largely supported by commercial galleries and corporate collections

Parthenonarchive

Official opening of New Acropolis Museum to feature partially recreated Parthenon frieze

The museum, which has been in development since 1976, is finally opening its doors

Major collectors and new museums in the Middle East

Focus on Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman

Museumsarchive

New competition for Warsaw museum architect

Top practitioners had been excluded due to “Kafka-esque” rules

Plans for Calder Museum in Philadelphia founder

Foundation fails to commit specific works to create the core of a permanent collection

Turinarchive

Turin gets a private museum of decorative art

Pietro Accorsi's long wait to showcase his collection is over

Collectorsarchive

Collector interview: Peter Maenz. “It felt like home”

The former Cologne art dealer has given, lent, and sold parts of his collection to Weimar, in eastern Germany

Museumsarchive

Ernst Beyeler’s museum opens

One of the world’s greatest collections of modern Impressionist and post-Impressionist art goes on view this month in a $37 million building by Renzo Piano

Collectorsarchive

A late, great collector and the new museum of his collection: The legacy of the ever elusive John Hunt

One of Europe’s greatest private collections of medieval material and works of art from antiquity to the twentieth century is now on view in Ireland

Museumsarchive

Taiwan round-up: Belgian Expressionists, Warhol and a new museum in Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts opens a year ahead of schedule

Tatearchive

Tate planning a national gallery for the twentieth-century before the twentieth century’s done

Tate makes early bid for National Lottery largesse to expand southward