Openings
Zurich takes ‘quantum leap’ with Chipperfield-designed Kunsthaus extension
Opening on 9 October, the major building project turns the Kunsthaus into Switzerland’s largest art museum
Putting Uruguay on the art map: sculptor Pablo Atchugarry is building a world-class museum in his home country
Billed as Uruguay's most comprehensive hub for international contemporary art, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry will open in Punta del Este next January
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art sets sights on Chengdu and a side hustle in a Beijing shopping mall
Beijing museum unveils plans for fourth location in "one of the most exciting cities in China" and new co-branded U2 exhibition space
Santa Barbara Museum of Art opens rejuvenated lobby and galleries
$50m renovation of California institution improves structural stability and helps to showcase the riches of the collection
Siberian city often described as 'most depressing place to live in the world' to receive contemporary art museum
Former mall in Norilsk will provide 8,500 sq. m of space for art
Edinburgh's Fruitmarket gallery reopens with new double-height performance space
Following a £4.3m overhaul, the Scottish art space's footprint has doubled
By Art Matters—Hangzhou's new contemporary art museum—announces inaugural programme
Curator Francesco Bonami leads long-awaited Chinese kunsthalle with a Theaster Gates-designed concept store and artist residency
Art Preserve: first museum devoted to America’s homegrown ‘art environments’ opens in Wisconsin
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center has built the new facility to house more than 25,000 "life-specific" works, created over years by untrained artists using found materials
Come for the art, stay for the night at collector's south of France foundation
Provençal offshoot of Hubert Bonnet’s Brussels art space doubles as a five-room guest house
It’s coming home: Art gallery to open in the grounds of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
New space is run by the publishers of OOF, a magazine which marries art and football
LUMA Arles: boundary-breaking creative campus opens in the south of France with a glittering Gehry jewel in its crown
The initiative aims to collapse the boundaries between art, culture, human rights and environmental issues
Italian Futurist's Rome apartment—a 'total fusion of art and life'—revealed by MaXXI museum
The small flat inhabited and decorated by 20th-century artist Giacomo Balla is open to the public for the first time as part of a new exhibition
Paris's landmark Hôtel de la Marine opens to visitors—and co-working offices—after four years of restoration
The 550-room palace has undergone a €132m makeover by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux
Happy Pride! Queer art hub planned for Greenwich Peninsula in London
Multi-venue cultural centre responds to the staggering loss of LGBTQ+ spaces across the UK
Former tobacco factory in Athens reopens its doors as vast contemporary art space this week
Following a €1.2m renovation, the historic building will host an expansive group show on the pandemic
Home truths: east London's museum of domestic life emerges from lockdown after £18.8m makeover
Museum of the Home reopens on 12 June with double the public space in its 18th-century almshouse buildings
MaXXI L'Aquila hopes to kickstart cultural revival in earthquake-damaged Italian city
New branch of Rome's national contemporary art museum opens next week in a restored 18th-century palace
UCCA Edge: Shanghai outpost of Beijing museum opens to China's 'most engaged and active' contemporary art audience
Opening exhibition looks back at the global emergence of the Chinese art world at the 2000 Shanghai Biennale
Magnum Photos announces major new Paris gallery space
News comes as the agency prepares to reopen London space with a show of German fashion photographer Herbert List
Chez Victor Hugo: author's former Paris home reopens after revamp
Closed for five months longer than planned, the renovated house-museum can finally unveil expanded spaces, restored treasures and new acquisitions
As French museums reopen, Loire region unveils Modern art collection in a Medieval abbey
The Fontevraud Modern Art Museum, housed in a 12th-century monastery’s former stables, will preserve more than 800 works donated by collectors Martine and Léon Cligman
After 21 years and $194m: Pinault opens Bourse museum in Paris
The French billionaire's long awaited contemporary art space contains works that champion his values of diversity—though many of these have been shown in Venice before
Out of Africa and into Messums: UK gallery launches new photography department with vintage prints of Karen Blixen's life in Kenya
Some of the images taken by the younger brother of the Danish author, whose memoir became an Oscar-winning film, reflect colonialist attitudes that the exhibition aims to confront
'Intelligent design': Frank Gehry's surprisingly subtle $233m makeover of Philadelphia Museum of Art revealed
Architect's Core Project expansion creates 90,000 sq. ft of new galleries and reimagined public spaces at heart of 1928 landmark
Abu Dhabi’s next mega museum is back on track—now with a director
UAE’s withdrawal from a disastrous and costly war in Yemen means it can refocus on an ambitious cultural agenda including the opening of Zayed National Museum
Gifted to the English city 80 years ago, Coventry's medieval Charterhouse will finally open to the public
After a £4.3m National Lottery Heritage Fund grant and years of restoration, the historic priory is set to open this summer
Greece completes long-awaited National Gallery revamp for Independence Day bicentenary
Greek culture minister promises €59m expansion will put the museum "on the map" ahead of public reopening
World's biggest Inuit art collection revealed at Winnipeg's new museum within a museum
Qaumajuq centre aims to reframe Winnipeg Art Gallery’s colonial past with displays of more than 10,000 rarely seen Inuit works
First look: Hong Kong's mighty M+ museum building is finally finished
Newly released footage shows the full extent of the vast 65,000 sq. m space and the designs striking use of straight lines and concrete
After more than a decade, Hong Kong's M+ building is finished and will open in 2021—even if international travel ban persists
Herzog & de Meuron-designed museum will not shy away from displaying controversial works, director assures