Openings

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

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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

Tate Britain opts for chronological hang with refurbishment project progressing

The galleries are set to reopen in May after funding goals were reached

How are start-up commercial galleries faring in the age of the mega-gallery?

The Lower East Side houses New York’s more avant-garde spaces, but can it compete with Gagosian et al?

Gagosian empire expands to China

Hong Kong will soon be home to a branch of the super-gallery

Museumsarchive

MoMA tower to loom over Manhattan

Concerns over Jean Nouvel skyscraper, to house museum extension in its base

Hauser & Wirth to open in New York

Gallery hopes to buck the downturn with transatlantic expansion

Gagosian doubling space in Los Angeles

Meanwhile, Steven Kasher moves in on Gagosian territory

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Contemporary art chosen for new US embassy chosen “to connect” to China

The new embassy in Beijing, opening in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and others

Peter Doigarchive

News from London: Peter Doig the family man, Lucian Freud the party animal

Meanwhile, Mark McGowan gets a helping hand on his commute while Richard Wentworth loses his marbles