NewsAbu Dhabi
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
NewsMuseums & Heritage
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
NewsMuseums & Heritage
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
NewsOpenings
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
NewsMuseums
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
NewsArt market
Berlin dealer Johann König opens new space in Seoul
Opening next month, the new space will include a sculpture garden on a roof terrace
NewsCommercial galleries
Poacher turned gamekeeper? Stefan Simchowitz opens Los Angeles gallery
“I support so many artists and I’d like to provide exhibition opportunities for them,” says the controversial dealer and art advisor
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Frick Collection takes its jewels on a Brutalist sojourn
Evocative surprises await: while its Gilded Age home is closed for renovation and expansion, the Frick displays its masterworks in austere Modernist surroundings on Madison Avenue
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Walk through the 2,000-year-old Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome's first emperor
The circular tomb—used through history as a fortress, a sculpture garden and an entertainment venue—reopens as a museum after an €11m restoration
NewsMuseums & Heritage
From Goya to Goldin: new museum puts Spanish city of Cáceres on the art world map
Dealer Helga de Alvear has donated her entire collection of 3,000 works, which include pieces by Tacita Dean, Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson and Wassily Kandinsky
NewsOpenings
Fast forward: revamped Australian Centre for the Moving Image promises a high-tech experience
The Melbourne museum of screen culture reopens with a contactless device that allows visitors to curate virtual collections
NewsPompeii
From Roman dining to the victims of Vesuvius: Pompeii hails reopening of archaeological museum
The Antiquarium reveals treasures and recent discoveries charting the ancient Roman city's rich history before deadly volcanic eruption
NewsCommercial galleries
Galleria Continua opens new Paris space with JR-curated show
Amid Covid-19 pandemic, Italian gallery hopes to "generate smiles" with second outpost in France
BlogAdventures with Van Gogh
Treats for Van Gogh fans in 2021: exhibitions, museum openings and books
We look ahead at the events to enjoy this year—assuming coronavirus doesn't scupper them
PreviewPinault Collection
Bourse de Commerce: opening of Pinault's long-awaited Paris museum is—pandemic permitting—finally around the corner
Two decades since the billionaire started planning a home for his collection in the French capital, the spectacular space is due to open on 23 January
NewsOpenings
Art in 2021—treats include Dürer blockbuster, new Munch museum and Caravaggio anniversary
Influential works by Duchamp, Picasso and Mondrian also celebrate centenary this year
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2021
Major museum openings and expansions in 2021
From the much-anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum to the Frick’s move to a Brutalist landmark, here are the building projects aiming to change cultural landscapes around the world
NewsOpenings
Amid Covid-19 adjustments, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles delays opening by five months
The museum’s debut, repeatedly postponed, is now anticipated in September of next year
NewsHumboldt Forum
What exactly is the Humboldt Forum?
From the building, to the name and the cost, we bring you the Berlin art complex in a nutshell
NewsHumboldt Forum
Humboldt Forum: the empire strikes back?
The imperial origins and plundered artefacts of the Berlin art complex seem out of place in today’s Germany
NewsMuseums
Kunsthaus Zurich counts down to ‘quantum leap’ for Swiss art scene after Chipperfield expansion
City hopes the $230m new building will raise its profile as an art destination to match Basel
NewsDia Art Foundation
Dia Chelsea plans to reopen in April after connecting three buildings in a $20m project
Inaugural exhibition in New York will feature a film and light sculptures by Lucy Raven
Newscolonialism
Racist or responsive? Italy to exhume Mussolini's colonial museum collection in 'critical' new display
Alarmed post-colonial researchers have raised concerns over plans to open Museo Italo Africano "Ilaria Alpi" in late 2021
NewsOpenings
Boola Bardip: Perth’s revamped Western Australian Museum opens with new name and focus on Aboriginal heritage
The museum worked with around 60 Aboriginal language groups across the vast state to bring their perspectives into every gallery
Newscoronavirus
Colourist painter and Royal Academician Philip Sutton opens new gallery—at the age of 92
Artist—who is now blind in one eye and lives in a sheltered care home—is launching a space in Bridport, England, to sell his own works
NewsOpenings
Challenges overcome as Houston's Museum of Fine Arts completes $450m campus expansion
Delayed by just three weeks amid the pandemic, new Kinder Building will dramatically increase space for Modern and contemporary art
NewsMuseums
First look at David Adjaye's planned museum for Benin City
Ghanaian-born London architect is working with the British Museum and Nigerian organisations to show “the most comprehensive display in the world of Benin Bronzes”
NewsOpenings
Company behind blockbuster immersive art experiences expands to New York former bank and Dubai shopping mall
French organisation Culturespaces plans fifth and sixth locations for shows of digitised paintings
NewsMuseums
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum to open in phases beginning in December
Plans include a show about ivory and a “critical approach” to colonial legacies
NewsFashion
How about an €8m Chanel makeover? Paris fashion museum reopens with help of luxury brand
Palais Galliera opens its doors during a hybrid physical and digital Paris fashion week with a major Chanel exhibition
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Inside The Box: Plymouth’s £48m bid for cultural revival
Pandemic scuppers city’s celebrations of Mayflower anniversary and hopes for tourist crowds—but flagship museum project opens against the odds
NewsOpenings
Pack your goggles! France to open three underwater sculpture parks this autumn
Visitors will need to swim to see new exhibits submerged off the coast of Corsica, Marseille and Cannes
NewsOpenings
Sigmund Freud Museum reopens in Vienna after a €4m expansion
Family's private apartment, displays about psychoanalysis and collection of conceptual art go on view
NewsArt & Technology
Going Dutch: teamLab to launch permanent exhibition in the Netherlands in 2024
Immersive installations by the Japan-based collective will be the centrepiece of Nowhere, a new digital art space in Utrecht
NewsMaXXI
MaXXI to open new museum in earthquake-ravaged L'Aquila in October
Contemporary art outpost of Rome museum will be housed in an 18th-century palace rebuilt with Russian government funds
FeatureGrand Egyptian Museum
'Grand Egyptian Museum will be finished this year': behind the scenes of the giant $1bn project
We take a tour of Egypt’s vast antiquities museum—the future home of Tutankhamun’s treasures—before its long-awaited opening in 2021
NewsArt market
Openings and collabs: how dealers are finding reasons to be cheerful
A spate of activity is helping galleries move forward during the pandemic
NewsOpenings
Compound, a space for art and wellness, to open in Long Beach, California
The inaugural programming includes displays of work by Glenn Kaino and Tavares Strachan and free yoga, meditation, and gardening classes
NewsMuseums
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum to open this year despite pandemic delay
Exhibition of Berlin city history is to be among the first to open
NewsOpenings
Netherlands gets first 'startup' museum for new media art
Nxt Museum to open in Amsterdam on 29 August with immersive installations by pioneering artists, designers, technologists and scientists
NewsMuseums & Heritage
X-appeal: millennial collectors open private museum in Beijing
Founded by Michael Xufu Huang and Theresa Tse, the X Museum opens in the Chinese capital this weekend after Covid-19 delay
NewsMuseums & Heritage
China’s Giacometti and Picasso museum delayed by coronavirus
Launch of Beijing venue combining works by both artists is postponed—and some loans in doubt
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Moscow’s new GES-2 arts centre delays grand opening to 2021
Coronavirus uncertainty postpones Ragnar Kjartansson exhibition, but power plant museum still aims to welcome locals this year
NewsOpenings
Opening of Pinault's grand new gallery in Paris delayed until 2021 as France extends lockdown
Originally scheduled to open in June this year and then postponed until September, new government measures to contain Covid-19 add further delays to the Bourse de Commerce space
NewsOpenings
Opening of Cairo's greatly anticipated $1bn Grand Egyptian Museum delayed again because of coronavirus
Huge new complex for Egypt's antiquities—which was originally scheduled to open in 2011—will be delayed until 2021
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New arts space finds its muse in the atmospheric Oklahoma sky
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center is reopening with an inaugural exhibition on illumination
BlogOpening Bite
Opening bite: the tastiest private views in London
Reporting on food and figures at Annely Juda, Waddington Custot and Soft Opening
NewsOpenings
Semperbau museum in Dresden, home to Vermeer's hidden cupid painting, reopens after €49m renovation
The 19th-century palace is returning to the idea of showing sculpture alongside its Old Masters
NewsOpenings
Green energy company powers Madagascar's first contemporary art non-profit
Hakanto Contemporary, sponsored by the eco-friendly Filatex group, is directed by the artist Joël Andrianomearisoa
NewsThe Momentary
Crystal Bridges launches satellite for living artists
Arkansas private museum’s cross-disciplinary new venue shines a spotlight on contemporary American art, from performance to cooking
NewsOpenings
Back to school: Massachusetts college museum gets a $12.5m makeover
The free-entry MassArt Art Museum, formerly known as the Bakalar & Paine Galleries, opens this weekend
NewsSculpture Park
Sculpture park to show works by Ai Weiwei and Hans Arp at castle outside Berlin
Established by the founders of the Institute for Artists Estates, Loretta Würtenberger and Daniel Tümpel, the display will open in May at Schlossgut Schwante
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Seattle Asian Art Museum's $56m expansion reframes the question: ‘What is Asian art?’
The refreshed museum will soon reopen with diverse collection displays informed by the local Asian Pacific Islander community
NewsMuseums
Tadao Ando-designed He Art Museum postponed because of coronavirus
The X Museum in Beijing has also delayed its opening show
NewsMuseums
Tokyo’s treasure house of Impressionist painting reopens as Artizon Museum
Former Bridgestone Museum of Art will have new focus on creativity through the ages after a three-year renovation
NewsMuseums
Will new €50m Albertina Modern museum revolutionise Vienna’s contemporary art scene?
Satellite venue of historic Albertina is to focus on Austrian and international art made after 1945
NewsPhotography
Double exposure: new Paris venue to unveil two historic photography collections
Exhibition space will show and sell digital reproductions of images from the archives of the Roger-Viollet agency and France-Soir newspaper
NewsOpenings
Swedish photography hub Fotografiska opens long-awaited New York exhibition space
The franchise’s ambitious global expansion will continue in 2020 with launch of London gallery
NewsOpenings
Revamped, renamed, reopened: Musée Ingres Bourdelle honours Montauban's masters
After €13m expansion, French museum brings together works by painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and sculptor Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
NewsOpenings
British architect David Adjaye to build a church, mosque and synagogue on a united site near the Louvre Abu Dhabi
The future House of Abrahamic religions in Abu Dhabi shows how the UAE differs from Saudi Arabia
NewsHong Kong
Hong Kong Museum of Art to reopen in spite of escalating violence of pro-democracy protests
Launch of revamped government-run museum to go ahead as planned following $119m facelift
NewsMuseums
Togo opens ground-breaking arts centre in former colonial palace
Palais de Lomé is the west African country's first major contemporary art centre and is unique on the continent for being financed by the state
NewsParis
Special delivery: Musée de la Poste reopens in Paris—with art to boot
Museum's little known, 6,000-strong Modern and contemporary art collection includes a ball gown made of 2,000 stamps
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Goulandris collection of Modern masterworks finally revealed in new Athens museum
Dream museum of collectors Basil and Elise Goulandris brought to life almost three decades after original proposal
NewsOpenings
UCCA Center for Contemporary Art to open space in Shanghai
New outpost of the Beijing-based institution is due to open in 2021
NewsMuseums
TeamLab to open spaces in Shanghai and Macao after breaking attendance records in Tokyo
Multimedia collective's first permanent gallery in Japan was the most popular single-artist museum of 2018, beating Picasso and Van Gogh museums
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Southampton's new art space takes over tower of 700-year-old city gateway
Exhibition venue and heritage attraction inside Grade I-listed monument God's House Tower is called GHT
NewsOpenings
Ruby City: collector Linda Pace's dream museum becomes reality in Texas
Wizard of Oz vision inspires new $15m contemporary art centre in San Antonio designed by David Adjaye
NewsOpenings
Paris Museum of Modern Art unveils €10m revamp of Art Deco home
Redesign by h2o architectes opens up 1930s building—with monumental murals by Matisse and Dufy—to disabled visitors
NewsMoMA expansion 2019
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening
NewsOpenings
Centre Pompidou’s satellite space in Shanghai to open early November
New offshoot joins Málaga and Brussels in French museum’s burgeoning international network
NewsExhibitions
As demonstrations return to Cairo, Egyptian protest artist goes on show in new London space
Exhibition of street artist Bahia Shehab's work opens at Aga Khan Centre Gallery in King's Cross
NewsMuseums
Peabody Essex Museum's $125m expansion includes new displays shaped by its neuroscience research
Institution in Salem, Massachusetts, opens new wing to display maritime and Asian art collection
NewsOpenings
Norwegian sculpture park does the Twist with Bjarke Ingels extension
Kistefos's dramatic new exhibition gallery also functions as a panoramic bridge
NewsBauhaus
'Black box' dedicated to Bauhaus opens in Dessau
Museum celebrates the German design school in the city most closely associated with founder Walter Gropius
NewsGermany
Danger! High voltage: former German power station sparks back to life as green arts centre
E-Werk Luckenwalde will be powered with locally sourced biomass, with excess energy sold back to the grid
NewsCommercial galleries
‘Grand Paris’: new art complex to open in Parisian suburb
Galleries such as Air de Paris and Fabienne Leclerc will relocate to a refurbished industrial space in Romainville
NewsMuseums
Beijing's art scene gets much-needed boost as M Woods opens second space
Private museum is due to open a new venue in capital's historic Longfusi area
NewsMuseums & Heritage
New museum tells Palestinian stories in the centre of US politics
One-room space in Washington, DC, focuses on art and culture rather than “catastrophe”— but a section is dedicated to the 1948 mass exodus
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Three become one: Montpellier Contemporain unites art school with exhibition venues
The newly created institution will involve all 200 students of the Montpellier School of Fine Arts
NewsOpenings
Bordeaux gets €60m Meca for creative industries
Bjarke Ingels-designed culture hub will be the new home of the Frac regional contemporary art centre
NewsDesign
Poster House, the first US museum dedicated to the medium, opens in New York
“We don’t want to be an art museum,” the director says
NewsGagosian Gallery
Gagosian's pop-up gallery in Basel to become permanent
Mega-dealer says “world-class museums” and Ernst Beyeler’s legacy are behind the move to keep the space beyond Art Basel week
ReviewPetra Museum
Petra's rich heritage goes on show for all to see in new museum
Nearly a decade after the Arab Spring scared off tourists, the Petra Museum is poised to welcome back visitors—and open up access for locals
NewsOpenings
Monumental art and walks on water: New Orleans Museum of Art opens expanded sculpture garden
Works by Frank Stella and Ursula von Rydingsvard take their place in lagoon landscape of New Orleans City Park
NewsExhibitions
Virtual reality tour offers glimpse of François Pinault’s long-awaited, grand Paris gallery
Exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice shows Tadao Ando’s designs for the Bourse de Commerce building
NewsVenice
Giudecca contemporary art district launches in industrial area off Venice's beaten tourist track
Opening during the Venice Biennale, the new initiative includes project and exhibitions spaces and a foundation for young Polish art
NewsOpenings
Newly restored Hillsborough Castle brims with clues to its past at the heart of Irish politics
Georgian mansion, the Queen’s official residence in Northern Ireland, has reopened to the public
NewsOpenings
Uzbekistan opens new art centre to boost 'undeveloped' local scene
Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is offering curatorial expertise as part of growing network of partnerships with post-Soviet countries
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is 'on track, on budget', director Richard Armstrong says
Construction on the long-delayed project is expected to take three to four years
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Weimar—birthplace of Bauhaus—opens new museum dedicated to the influential design school
On the same day, the nearby Neues Museum Weimar will open a new permanent exhibition on early Modernism
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Shapeshifting $475m arts space The Shed opens in New York's Hudson Yards
Gerhard Richter, Trisha Donnelly and Steve McQueen will show new commissions
ReviewNational Museum of Qatar
Review: Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar opens with surprises at every turn
Every aspect of modern museography is used to create immersive displays and engaging learning experiences
NewsOpenings
Expect the unexpected at the new National Museum of Qatar
Jean Nouvel-designed museum opens in Doha with multi-sensory history galleries and contemporary art and film commissions
InterviewNational Museum of Qatar
Jean Nouvel: 'desert rose' Qatar museum blooms against the odds
We speak to the French architect about the search for a national landmark and the hurdles that faced the mammoth project
NewsOpenings
Jerwood Gallery to relaunch as Hastings Contemporary after losing British art collection
Seaside gallery on England’s south coast will have double the space for exhibitions when it reopens in July
NewsOpenings
New contemporary art space opens in impoverished area outside Tunis
B7L9, founded by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, shows works by international and Tunisian artists but also engages the local community
CommentHumboldt Forum
'Humboldt Forum must have a clear policy that only objects of proper provenance can be used'
The question of restitution as well as a new order of north-south relations should be top of the agenda, says George Abungu an international adviser to the project
George Abungu