Openings
Can a brand new museum boost ancient Nîmes’s Unesco bid?
Musée de la Romanité, dedicated to the city's Roman history, cost almost €60m to build
Westminster Abbey’s lofty new museum reveals ‘the best view in Europe’
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries to open in hidden triforium, 50ft up
The UK's only marble Michelangelo takes pride of place at new Royal Academy
The Taddei Tondo has not always been treated as a masterpiece
Norval Foundation near Cape Town opens months after launch of city's Zeitz museum
Staff from Africa's first mega museum have defected to the new private institution
From Beijing to Mayfair: French dealer to open new gallery in London
Specialist Hadrien de Montferrand brings a unique mix of influences to his work
Arresting development: a peek at Hong Kong's Central Police Station
Long-awaited heritage and arts centre, Tai Kwun, is expected to open in May
Lafayette Paris art hub is first ‘multidisciplinary centre of its kind in France’, says chief
Guillaume Houzé says that his new Marais venue will be less corporate and more creative
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art to open in London in September
Mika Rottenberg solo show and Chicago Imagist exhibition in the pipeline
Marrakech museum boosts Africa’s burgeoning art scene
Macaal’s international launch coincides with city’s first 1-54 Contemporary African Art fair
Ellsworth Kelly’s final work—and only building—opens in Texas
Artist donated his design for Austin to the Blanton Museum in 2015, the year he died
Huge neighbourhood of artists' studios set for neglected part of south-east London
Plans led by V22 art collective part of a wider £3.5bn regeneration scheme
Picasso’s stepdaughter to open museum in Aix-en-Provence with huge collection of artist's paintings
Former convent in south of France will house Catherine Hutin-Blay's collection of more than 2,000 works
Kettle's Yard—where Modern art meets pot plants and pebbles—reopens after two-year facelift
House-museum in Cambridge now has “world-class” conditions for future exhibitions, says its director
Crown Prince Mohammed adds art, Silicon Valley and movies to his Saudi reforms as Wahabi influence wanes
MoMa hosts announcement of his Misk Art Institute, led by artist Ahmed Mater
New Art Jameel space for contemporary art to launch in Saudi Arabia in 2019
The Hayy: Creative Hub centre in Jeddah is latest cultural offering announced in the rebranded Kingdom
New institute to reconstruct Giacometti's studio in Paris
Space founded by the Giacometti Foundation will also include a research centre and a venue for temporary shows
Newly refurbished Hayward lights up after dark
Brutalist museum reopens with new skylights and glass pyramids
Hayward Gallery’s renovation breathes new life—and brings more daylight—into Brutalist landmark
London gallery celebrates 50th anniversary and reopens with Andreas Gurksy retrospective
Ink art museum opens in Shanghai suburb
Baolong Art Museum is backed by the collector Xu Jiankang
Iran’s first museum for a female artist honours nonagenarian
"Life’s work" of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian goes on show in former palace in Tehran
ICA Miami finds first home in Design District
Free-admission private museum says it will “remove all barriers from experiencing contemporary art”
In the wake of Documenta 14, Athens's contemporary art museum awaits 2018 rebirth
After years in limbo, EMST has received government approval to open fully in former brewery
V&A's first foray into China opens to visitors
Design Society in Shenzhen, steered by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, unveils four galleries this month, with two to follow in 2018
Pioneers of Lebanese painting star in private museum near the Syrian border
Collector Emile Hannouche has opened his family mansion in the Bekaa Valley to the public
Marrakech bids to become hub for contemporary African art as museum plans relaunch alongside 1:54 fair
Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden will hold “international opening” in February
Art history-inspired film Manifesto starring Cate Blanchett opens in the UK
From Futurists to Supermatists, Hollywood star takes on thirteen characters to recite famous artist manifestos
Wende Museum of Cold War artefacts spills its secrets in California
More than 100,000 Soviet and Eastern European objects find new home in former Armory
Washington's new $500m Museum of the Bible claims 'non-sectarian' mission
Private institution is funded by evangelical Hobby Lobby chairman, Steve Green