Renovation

Behind the scenes of the Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing with its acclaimed architect

Kulapat Yantrasast has a design philosophy of “cultural Pad Thai”—multiple perspectives combined into something unique and approachable

Megasculpture workshop and landscape reclamation drive Storm King Art Center regeneration

The biggest sculpture park in the US starts its visitor season with a bang—unveiling a first-ever conservation and fabrication building, major relandscaping, and monumental works by Kevin Beasley, Sonia Gomes and Dionne Lee

First look: the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ rehang at London's National Gallery

The reopening of the Sainsbury Wing on 10 May will allow the gallery to show nearly 40% of its collection. The Art Newspaper took an early tour

Is Macron's grand vision for the Louvre just a fantasy?

President Macron’s pledge to rescue “jewel of the nation” meets scepticism and derision amid the country's fiscal squeeze

The Frick Collection opens its first-ever education centre

The Ian Wardropper Education Room, named after the museum’s outgoing director, welcomes everyone in the community

Renewed Frick Collection balances tradition and transformation

The 90-year-old Manhattan institution—historic home of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick—opens a new chapter, expanding gallery space and inviting the public into the Frick family’s former living quarters for the first time

Former San Francisco Art Institute will become non-accredited, studio-based art school following campus restoration

As for the famed Diego Rivera mural housed there, its owner promises that public access will be “prioritised and maintained”

As Siena’s art takes to the world stage, the Italian city is undergoing a renewal

New York just closed an exhibition on Sienese art and London is about to open another. But there is also plenty of activity in Siena itself, with a museum renovation and research shedding new light on some famous works

Dallas Museum of Art will undergo $6m repairs to fix damage from 2022 rainstorm

The museum's Impressionist collection galleries and interactive education facility have been closed since for more than two years

Garden party: one of the largest and most historic gardens in the US reveals its transformation

Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens unveils its $250m renovation and expansion project on 22 November

MFA Boston gets $25m gift to renovate galleries and add staff

The Wyss Foundation’s donation will create more than 5,000 sq. ft of extra space for the museum’s 20th-century art collection

Revamped Wiener Holocaust Library to reopen with exhibition on celebrated Jewish sculptor

The library, which houses the world’s oldest collection of archival material on the Nazi era, will present works by Fred Kormis in a newly renovated exhibition space

British Museum names architects shortlisted in controversial renovation competition

Environmental campaigners previously called on practices not to take part in the contest following a £50m funding pledge from BP

Austin’s Blanton Museum reimagines its grounds as a place for a university campus, city and community

A recently completed $35m renovation led by Snøhetta seeks to seamlessly connect the museum to its surroundings

Centre Pompidou must not close for five years, say French critics and curators

An open letter has called for the public to have access to the complex during its major forthcoming renovation—and for the role of Paris’s state institutions to be protected as a result

Centre Pompidou renovation project at ‘high risk of slippage’

Supreme auditing body Cour des comptes judges Paris museum's five-year renovation project as “underfunded and insufficiently piloted”

Sprawling new cultural hub takes shape in Detroit

Little Village arts campus, including church transformed into an exhibition space and a skatepark, aims to bolster Detroit’s cultural scene

Los Angeles's Institute of Contemporary Art reveals details of $12m revamp and expansion

The downtown museum has announced an ambitious renovation plan that centers local artists

MFA Boston’s renovated Japanese art galleries seek to inspire deeper exploration of familiar objects

In the reopened galleries, rotating exhibits highlight collection gems—including seven newly conserved Buddha statues—and technology add-ons expand learning

British Museum on the hunt for 'visionary' design team to help transform space

The institution launches competition to find an architectural firm that can transform its Bloomsbury site

Norwegian grain silo fills up once more, but this time with Nordic Modernist art

The huge Nordic Modernism collection of a trillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund manager will furnish a new art museum on Norway’s southern coast

British Museum suffering from leaking roofs as wait for huge redevelopment project goes on

Emergency repairs are being made to several galleries, just over a year after Assyrian reliefs were threatened by serious condensation

Newly reopened Orsanmichele in Florence smashes visitor records in first few weeks

The church, which has undergone an extensive renovation, welcomed more than six months’ worth of visitors in the first three weeks after the work was completed

Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum reveals details of $97m renovation project

The institution's “gift to the city, the province and beyond”, OpenROM will upgrade its public space, improve accessibility and add 6,000 sq. ft of galleries

East London's Vestry House Museum to undergo £4.5million redevelopment

The funds to reimagine the museum are part of a wider £17.2m Levelling Up allocation that will help to bolster the district's arts credentials

Egyptian Museum in Turin to undergo €23m renovation with two-storey ‘agora’ at its heart

The mission of the project, designed by OMA architects, is to make the museum more accessible to the public

Efforts to restore dilapidated house museum of African American art in Savannah, Georgia get significant boost

The Kiah house will be restored to its former glory, highlighting African American art, and providing housing to local artists

After ten years, the British Museum’s Reading Room is still out of bounds

Glacial progress being made on reopening the magnificent domed space at the heart of the institution

South London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery to get new sculpture park in £4.6m overhaul

The institution’s first major redevelopment in 25 years will also include a new building for families and schools