Openings

Portland Collection opens to public for first time with rarely seen Michelangelo drawing

Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire will house one of the finest aristocratic collections in England

Met Breuer takes the long view of contemporary art

Inaugural exhibitions at new outpost will avoid the usual suspects

Handel and Hendrix duet under one roof

Jimi Hendrix's former girlfriend helped the Handel museum restore the rock musician's home next door

David Attenborough opens £1.5m gallery for socially-engaged art

BBC naturalist inaugurated Lucy and Jorge Orta's show on environmental change at Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester

Contemporary art space springs up on the Caribbean isle of Martinique

Inaugural exhibition dedicated to Hervé Télémaque is organised by Centre Pompidou curators

V-A-C Foundation unveils plans for Renzo Piano-designed museum for Moscow

Vast contemporary art centre in former power station will include 100m-long nave

South Korea tops global list for private art museums

Private Art Museum Report highlights rapid rise of institutions across the world over the past decade

New Tate Modern to devote gallery to Artist Rooms

Louise Bourgeois, whose work helped launch gallery, first artist to be featured from collection each year <br>

Artnews

British construction boss to open new gallery in Ghana

Marwan Zakhem hopes to create a buzz around the burgeoning scene in the West African country with Gallery 1957

New Lithuanian art space to open in 2019

The first museum dedicated to Lithuanian Modern and contemporary art will open in the country’s capital

Silicon Valley in Pace’s sights as place to put down roots

Pop-up space in neighbouring Menlo Park is due for demolition

MaXXI outpost for earthquake-ravaged city

The Italian culture ministry plans to bring a contemporary art museum to L’Aquila

V&A’s new European Galleries paint a broader picture of history

After years of delay, completed refurbishment expands understanding of the period from 1600 to 1815

New contemporary art centre in Jamaica to open with Basquiat show

Art adviser Rachael Barrett plans network of spaces across the Caribbean

Depart Foundation arrives in Miami

Organisation moves into South Beach hotel

Pace launches art and tech branch

New artists bring digital element

Qatar opens slavery museum

Institution is one of four in a new Doha development, the state’s latest bid to rebrand itself as a culture hub

Singapore National Gallery ready to spring into life

Colonial-era buildings transformed into space for Modern Southeast Asian art

Barcelona boosted by new contemporary art initiative

Fundació Gaspar will host a major exhibition of works by Paul McCarthy in 2016

Milwaukee Art Museum pulls off expansion from depths of slump

Mould flourished, floors buckled and ceilings leaked in the two buildings that housed the museum's permanent collection when it announced $34m renovation in 2009 at the height of the recession

Collection built by Dukes of Portland to go on show in new Nottingham gallery

First exhibition will include a rarely seen sketch by Michelangelo and miniature portraits selected by Peter Blake

Sadie Coles opens double-height 'fish tank' gallery in Mayfair

Venue is the London dealer’s third in the UK capital

V&A unveils new Japanese display with ancient treasures and a Sony Walkman

Refurbished gallery gives more space to Modern objects but older artefacts still take pride of place

Russia’s private museums defy the economic odds

Institutions are burgeoning in the face of sanctions and currency devaluation

Shop 'til you Pop art: Lebanese retail tycoon opens museum-mall in Beirut

At Tony Salamé’s $100m Aishti Foundation, visitors can see a major show of abstract works or shop in a string of luxury boutiques

Damien Hirst’s gallery opens in south London without a Hirst in sight

Newport Street Gallery’s lofty spaces are devoted to his friend John Hoyland’s abstract canvases

Gagosian opens third, and largest, gallery in London

New Mayfair space is part of cultural revival of the area