Julia Halperin
How the Barnes Foundation is reinventing itself
Philadelphia-based private museum lays plans to show non-Western art, commission contemporary works and open up to scholars
Michael Govan’s advice to collectors: buy a curator lunch
Lacma director contributes to Frick Collection's panel on the long history collecting contemporary art
Kinky Calder gets restored in time for UK debut
Artist’s grandsons waived fees to conserve his largest work, which goes on show at Tate Modern this week
Musée d’Orsay chief curator trades Paris for Philly to take up post at Barnes Foundation
The institution has named Sylvie Patry as its new chief curator and deputy director for collections and exhibitions
Canadian Prime Minister pledges to boost cultural investment
Arts professionals are generally optimistic about the country’s new leadership—although some worry promised changes could be too little too late
Bible museum founders may have illicit antiquities from Iraq
Federal investigators have seized more than 200 cuneiform tablets imported from Israel by the Green family
Guggenheim’s 2016 Hugo Boss Prize shortlist is heavy on performance and video
The finalists for the $100,000 include Cuban activist Tania Bruguera, video artist Mark Leckey and choreographer Ralph Lemon
Gallerists at Frieze are saluting their pioneering forebears
Stands pay tribute to dealers who were ahead of their time
UK debut for Calder's most complex mobile
The 12-foot sculpture has not left Brazil since Calder gave it to the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil in São Paulo, in 1948
What you can buy at Frieze for less than £10,000
Contrary to popular belief, it's not all about seven-figure sums
Cornelia Parker to create roof-top commission for the Met
British artist will have to overcome vertigo for first major museum project in New York
It's Pop art but not as we know it
Artists from Brazil to Japan are emerging from the shadows at Frieze and in museums
The Broad: as big as its founders’ influence
The art in Los Angeles’ new private museum is as titanic as the funding
Competition to design Qatar’s Art Mill heats up
Established names as well as young designers among the 26 firms chosen for longlist
Performers tell museums to get their act together on fees
Institutions are spending millions on spaces for performance but some curators are “surprised they have to pay live art performers at all”
Getty becomes first museum to restitute Armenian art removed during genocide
The institution will get to keep the brilliantly illuminated gospel pages in its collection after legal settlement
The Broad: a first look
Highly anticipated LA museum opens this weekend with star works from its collection, including Kusama's Infinity Room and ten pieces by Jeff Koons
Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening
Every gallery will be open to the public for the first time in 50 years
Scottish museum buys 17th-century Le Marchand ivories
Huguenot carver came to Edinburgh after facing persecution in his native France
Franklin Sirmans reveals his priorities as new director of Pérez Art Museum Miami
Lacma curator wastes no time getting to know institution and city
Lawsuit against Cooper Union comes to an end
The college promises to work toward restoring free tuition
First fashion museum in American South to open in October
The Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia to show its collection of more than 1,000 garments
Post-storm production: New Orleans museums look to artists and their practice
Exhibitions focus on more subtle ways artists were influenced by Hurricane Katrina