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Cosy: collector Dakis Joannou and artist Jeff Koons at the New Museum's 30th Anniversary Gala in 2007 (Photo: Billy Farrell/PatrickMcMullan.com)

Controversy over New Museum's plans to show trustee’s collection

NEW YORK. In late September, the New Museum in New York announced an exhibition consisting solely of works that Greek construction tycoon Dakis Joannou—one of the museum’s trustees—has amassed for his Deste Foundation in Athens. Set to open in March 2010, the show will take up the museum’s entire... >>>

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From issue 207, November 2009.
Published online 11 Nov 09 (Museums)

Guggenheim Bilbao, part II

The Basque museum plans to open a second outpost >>>

From issue 207, November 2009.
Published online 3 Nov 09 (Museums)

Ulster Museum in Northern Ireland reopens with Sean Scully retrospective

After a three year closure and £17.2m refurbishment, more of its permanent collections are on show >>>

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Published online 29 Oct 09 (Museums)

Daskalopoulos Collection at the Whitechapel

The Greek entrepreneur's art gets its first major public display >>>

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Published online 9 Oct 09 (Museums)

Umberto Eco: master of the list

The author discusses his turn as guest curator at the Louvre >>>

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Published online 11 Nov 09 (Museums)

Zagreb’s first new museum in over a century opens in December

The Museum of Contemporary Art will show Croatian and international works >>>

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Published online 29 Oct 09 (Museums)

British Museum to acquire major print collection

Moves to buy 7,250 mezzotints from Lennox-Boyd >>>

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Published online 21 Oct 09 (Museums)

Museum dedicated to Knut Steen

Glass-walled pavilion for the Norwegian sculptor >>>

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Published online 5 Oct 09 (Museums)

New museum dedicated to Emil Schumacher

Hagen venue celebrates the German abstract expressionist >>>

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Published online 29 Sep 09 (Museums)

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The new Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb under construction (Photo: Ana Kunst)

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The Knut Steen museum. Photo: Kavlie-Borge

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Berlin state secretary of culture Andre Schmitz, in favour of Gemaldegalerie's move back to the Museum Island

Doubts over Berlin Gemäldegalerie’s move to Museum Island

The skylight hall of the Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen. Copyright: Werner Hannappel

New museum dedicated to Emil Schumacher

The Museum of Chinese in America's central courtyard, featuring the ongoing exhibition

Maya Lin’s Museum of Chinese in America opens in New York

The Marabou sculpture park in Sundbyberg, north of Stockholm, will gain an underground gallery

New underground venue for Swedish sculpture park

 

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