Openings

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

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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

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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

Rome gallery opening: “Larry Gagosian has always expanded in a recession”

Why is the most successful contemporary art dealer in the world opening a branch in Rome this month?

Slower than planned, Tate Modern’s expansion starts in the basement

Only part of the project will be completed by next summer, with a lack of funds hampering progress

Rothko comes to Rome for the first time since 1970

The 70 painting strong exhibition will be in the newly reopened Palazzo delle Esposizioni

Gagosian grows London presence

New Davies Street gallery is added to the pile

Hauser & Wirth go east with new project space

The new building's first show is of work by Dieter Roth and Martin Kippenberger

Obrist, Rosenquist and more pay tribute to Robert Rauschenberg

The opening Bulgari Conversation spoke fondly of the artist who was welcomed with spontaneous applause

Will ex-Gagosian staffers poach his artists?

New Chelsea gallery to show Hirst, Salle and Brown