Malba picks architect for expansion that will double its exhibition space – The Art Newspaper
The Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba) has chosen the Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to design…
Metropolitan Museum breaks ground on long-awaited new wing for Modern and contemporary art – The Art Newspaper
The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday (15 September) for its Tang Wing for Modern…
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…
‘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…
Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF – The Art Newspaper
A portrait of the billionaire entrepreneur Igor Tulchinsky has gone on public view in the British Museum’s Bayeux…
Bank opens museum in Spanish city of Santander to display its 1,000-strong art collection – The Art Newspaper
A grand Neo-Classical building overlooking the Bay of Santander and the Cantabrian mountains in north-western Spain is to…
Toledo Museum of Art partners with Ethiopian Heritage Authority to find solutions for ‘objects in limbo’ – The Art Newspaper
The Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) has formed a new institutional partnership with the Ethiopian Heritage Authority (EHA),…
‘You have to take care’: behind the painstaking restoration of a rare early Art Nouveau house in Brussels – The Art Newspaper
In the heart of Brussels’s leafy Saint-Gilles district, scaffolding surrounds the pale yellow mansion with ornate wooden doors…
Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego faces financial and leadership crisis – The Art Newspaper
The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego (ICA) recently laid off eight staff members, almost half its employees.…
Guatemala museum that suddenly shuttered after court-ordered raid to reopen – The Art Newspaper
The Museo de Arte Colonial in Antigua, Guatemala, will reopen after a court-ordered raid shut it down in…
UK government places export bar on £71m Rembrandt portrait – The Art Newspaper
The UK government has placed an export bar on a Rembrandt painting valued at £71m, making it “the most expensive object ever to be…
Monumental Noguchi sculpture donated to the New Orleans Museum of Art – The Art Newspaper
Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture Mississippi Fountain (also known as The Mississippi, 1961-62) will soon be installed at the Beaux…