Openings

Latest young gallerist to open in London commissions art you can really use

Studio_Leigh launched last week in a three-storey former Victorian varnish factory in Shoreditch

Celebrating the civilisations Isil seeks to destroy

Detroit Institute of Arts unveils new gallery devoted to the Ancient Middle East

The Broad: as big as its founders’ influence

The art in Los Angeles’ new private museum is as titanic as the funding

Gasworks re-opens in south London in face of stratospheric rent hikes across the capital

Artist residency space secured the building freehold and embarked on an ambitious redevelopment programme

The Broad: a first look

Highly anticipated LA museum opens this weekend with star works from its collection, including Kusama's Infinity Room and ten pieces by Jeff Koons

Madrid foundation to open exhibition space in Barcelona

Fundación Mapfre will inaugurate new branch with post-Impressionist show organised with Musée d’Orsay

Zaha Hadid buries new museum beneath Italian Alpine peak

Museum dedicated to the art of climbing offers sweeping views

New museum on Silk Road breaks the Chinese mould

Islam is the focus of north-west China’s first contemporary art institution

Palestinian Museum draws diaspora together

Collection, which launches on Nakba Day, focuses on personal memories

Paris dealer opens sculpture park on Côte d'Azur

More than 30 works feature on trail of valleys and lakes

Newly expanded Lambert Collection reopens with gifts from Abdessemed and Vezzoli

Museum has doubled its exhibition space in historic headquarters in Avignon

Italian gallery to open London outpost in October

Tornabuoni Art will inaugurate sixth space with Lucio Fontana solo show

Broad ‘intensifies’ its collection ahead of Los Angeles museum opening

Foundation acquires political work by Longo and Murakami’s biggest painting

The Rothschild collection that got away

The British Museum reopens the Waddesdon Bequest Wunderkammer, funded by Lord Rothschild

Cleopatra comes to Singapore

Asian branch of the Pinacothèque de Paris opens with eye on the box office

Berlinische Galerie reopens after refurbishment

German capital’s 1960s urban renewal is explored in new shows

A Home for interdisciplinary art opens in Manchester

The inaugural exhibition at the new $25m arts complex in northern England focuses on affairs of the heart

Minister hails revamped Egyptian Museum as shining example

Turin-style reforms could take place across Italy as soon as a dozen new directors are appointed

Guggenheim Helsinki isn’t the only show in town

Amos Anderson Art Museum unveils bold vision for new home

Baku aims to keep up with the Gulf

New museums are flourishing in the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan

Pompeian frescoes cured with antibiotics

Bacteria removed from Villa of the Mysteries frieze during restoration

Grand designs on Soane’s London home

Visitors can see the architect’s newly restored living quarters for the first time in 160 years

America is easier to see, but the whole picture remains elusive: Alexander Alberro on the Whitney’s opening exhibition

Unknown works appear with more familiar ones but a few key pieces have lost impact they once had in Breuer Building

Director’s tour of the new Whitney Museum

Adam Weinberg points out his highlights of the building and inaugural show

Danish art space dedicated to refugees opens amid recent migrant tragedy

Center for Art on Migration Politics in Copenhagen is the first of its kind in Europe

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>

Room with a view tops off Tate Britain’s revamp

Penelope Curtis, the gallery’s director, aims to accentuate the strengths of the collection and the building

Beijingarchive

China gets its first contemporary art museum

The opening of the Ullens Center will transform the local scene and the West’s understanding of what’s happening in China

New projects: The Rothko art centre

The artist was born in Daugavpils, once part of Russia