Louvre Abu Dhabi appoints Souraya Noujaim as new director – The Art Newspaper
Louvre Abu Dhabi has appointed Souraya Noujaim as its new director, after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) museum’s…
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum gains new €45m Norman Foster-designed wing – The Art Newspaper
The industrial port city of Bilbao in northern Spain’s Basque Country may be most famous for Frank Gehry’s…
British Museum to extend Bayeux Tapestry opening hours – The Art Newspaper
The British Museum has announced plans to extend opening hours for its blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry exhibition after some…
A Knockout Show Resets the Record With ‘Krasner and Pollock’
“Abstract Expressionism is overrated,” snapped a veteran art world friend of mine not long ago, speaking of the…
Doubts over financial sustainability of Brussels’s new Kanal museum cloud upcoming opening – The Art Newspaper
With its own bakery and playground, Kanal is no ordinary museum. But the first major Modern and contemporary…
Peter Zumthor unveils trio of arts buildings for Swiss museum
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has expanded the Fondation Beyeler museum in Riehen, Switzerland, with a cluster of art…
Comment | Why museums should tread carefully with audio and video in exhibition spaces – The Art Newspaper
In 2014, I was fortunate enough to co-curate an exhibition at Tate Britain, Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation.…
Australian entrepreneur invents hardware aimed at making art-handling lower risk and hands-free – The Art Newspaper
Handling pictures directly will soon become a thing of the past, according to the inventor of a new…
Appeal for photographs that show was it was like growing up in Hull
‘Whether it’s a photograph from a family day out, school event or simply spending time with friends, we’d…
Major Swiss museum acquisition proves far larger after extra works revealed in donor’s unopened portfolios – The Art Newspaper
The Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds in western Switzerland has had “a pleasant surprise” after a recent…
‘Rembrandt’s DNA would be the Holy Grail’: new research samples bacteria on the surface of The Night Watch – The Art Newspaper
When the brave defenders of Amsterdam in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch (1642) strode out into the unknown, they…
Paris’s Picasso museum reveals designers shortlisted for €55m sculpture garden project – The Art Newspaper
Five architecture and landscape teams have been selected to compete for the Musée National Picasso‑Paris’s project to create…