PreviewThe Year Ahead 2019
Top ten new museums and major extensions due to open in 2019
A MoMA expansion, the opening of the Humboldt Forum, the unveiling of the National Museum of Qatar and a new Bauhaus Museum are just some of the highlights of the year ahead
NewsExhibitions
Berlin's 200-year-old replica workshop finds a niche at new Museum Island hub
First-ever exhibition on the Gipsformerei, which copies works for museums and Jeff Koons, will open the James Simon Gallery next summer
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Staff at State Russian Museum take legal action to halt renovation
Senior employees claim the $17m project threatens the Mikhailovsky Palace building and its collections
FeatureMuseums
You have to renovate to accumulate: three South Florida museums expand in very different ways
The Norton Museum of Art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College show that museum expansions can take different sizes and forms
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach
Art Basel looks to the future as ‘campus’ around the Miami Beach Convention Center grows
Fair organisers are "focusing on developing a new concept" after discontinuing the Film and Public sectors
NewsBuilding projects
Couple donates $40m for MoMA's renovation and expansion
Acknowledging gift, museum names a film center after Debra and Leon Black
NewsMuseums & Heritage
The Met looks back at Max Hollein’s first 100 days as director—and forward to its 150th birthday
The museum will mark its anniversary in 2020 by launching a renovation of the Rockefeller Wing and celebrating its permanent collection
NewsBuilding projects
Cost of Manchester arts centre The Factory jumps due to 'construction inflation'
City council will cover extra £20m costs for the Rem-Koolhaas designed venue
NewsNational Museum of Qatar
Jean Nouvel-designed National Museum of Qatar announces opening date
Architect, who also designed the Louvre Abu Dhabi, drew inspiration from the crystalline forms that emerge in the desert
NewsAcquisitions
Dallas school given largest collection of Swiss art outside of Switzerland
The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift
InterviewMuseums & Heritage
Tristram Hunt unveils plans for V&A East—the Victoria & Albert Museum's satellite London location
Museum will receive the buildings in former Olympic park for free, director says
NewsBuilding projects
Houston's museum building boom continues with opening of Menil Drawing Institute
Campus expansions at three museums in Texas's biggest city focus on creating civic spaces as well as on showing art
NewsBrazil
‘Brazil’s Donald Trump’ Jair Bolsonaro may thwart efforts to rebuild Rio museum destroyed in fire
New far-right president wants to remove the country’s ministry of culture
NewsMuseums
Sweden's Nationalmuseum reopens—and goes free
Government waives charges after funding five-year, £100m refurbishment
NewsMuseums
Deutsche Bank opens Berlin palace fit for its vast art collection
The Palais Populaire will be a permanent exhibition space for the bank's 55,000 works
NewsConservation
Turin’s Chapel of the Holy Shroud—almost entirely destroyed by fire—reopens after €30m restoration
State-of-the-art conservation project that took 21 years brings masterpiece of Baroque architecture back to its former glory
NewsConservation
Chicago resurrects its master craftsman
Edgar Miller finally gets his due as the city prepares to celebrate the overlooked designer’s eclectic work
NewsMuseums
Met plans to leave Breuer building, making way for the Frick
The Brutalist structure will house Frick’s historic collection during expansion of its 70th Street home
NewsPrivate Museums
Glenstone’s giant $200m expansion is ready, but will visitors come?
Collectors’ private museum, scrutinised by US Senate for limited access, could draw 100,000 people a year
NewsOpenings
Bloomsbury group’s country home to open all year round
New shows at Charleston will celebrate the liberal legacy of the artists and intellectuals who gathered there
NewsMuseums
Beijing's Ullens Center for Contemporary Art to open 'Guggenheimian' second museum
New space, with portions burrowed under the sand, will be located by the Bohai Sea shoreline
NewsBuilding projects
Tadao Ando designs Chicago art space dedicated to architecture and socially engaged work
The inaugural show at Wrightwood 659 will focus on Ando and Le Corbusier
ReviewBooks
Henry I of Haiti: the little-known story of a king and his amazing building spree
A short but fascinating book about a man immortalised through architecture
NewsMuseums
Chengdu MoCA quashes rumours of demise but its problems are endemic in China’s art museums
Institution’s difficulties echo experiences of other new Chinese cultural spaces linked to property developments
NewsArtists
Jasper Johns show and catalogue raisonné open Menil Collection’s new Drawing Institute
The 88-year-old artist, who gets the institute’s inaugural show, was deeply involved in the drawings catalogue project
NewsPrivate Museums
Glenstone Museum reveals the art in store for vast Pavilions expansion
Long-awaited showcase spaces for collection founded by Mitchell and Emily Rales to open in October
NewsMuseums
$890m Sydney museum move could be most expensive gallery relocation in history
Critics fear that plan will lead to parts of the Powerhouse Museum’s collection being sold off
NewsFairs
Fiac fair confirms move to temporary venue near Eiffel Tower
Fairs held at the Grand Palais forced to move out of the historic venue during extensive renovations beginning 2021
NewsMuseums
Paris's revamped Cluny museum brings Medieval art into the 21st century
Loan fees from Louvre Abu Dhabi pay for new disabled access and restoration of ancient baths
NewsMuseums
Back to bigger better art school: Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art to reopen in January
Inaugural shows include a photography exhibition on consent—drawn from student-selected acquisitions
NewsBuilding projects
Frick's fourth expansion plan gets green light
But the preservationist group Stop Irresponsible Frick Development has protested the project, saying "the public has not been given a fair opportunity to provide feedback"
NewsCollectors
Pinault Collection extends empire with Rennes show, new Paris space and long-term loans programme
French billionaire—whose collection numbers 3,000 works—has sold 130 pieces since 2000
NewsBuilding projects
Australia's largest contemporary art gallery to be built in Melbourne
New space will help National Gallery of Victoria to capitalise on blockbuster exhibitions
NewsMuseums
Dia to revamp New York galleries with $78m campaign
The multi-year project aims to revive Soho space, closed since the late 1980s, expand Beacon museum and allow long-term installations by Walter de Maria to remain open year-round
NewsOpenings
TBA21-Academy's eco art initiatives get new long-term home in Venetian church
Patron Francesca von Habsburg shifts focus from her closed foundation space in Vienna to her new academy building in Venice
NewsMuseums
Kunsthalle Mannheim unveils €68m extension backed by German billionaire
Foundation of Hans-Werner Hector, one of the country's richest people, contributed €50m to the revamp
NewsMuseums
Debate over Frick expansion continues at impassioned Landmarks Preservation Commission hearing
The Annabelle Selldorf-designed proposal has broad support from the New York art community, but feelings are more split among its neighbours
NewsChina
Massive arts district to launch in 2019 in valley near Beijing
“Eco-city” announced at Venice Architecture Biennale will include a museum, artists’ studios and an art park
NewsMuseums
Martin-Gropius-Bau show to mark 30 years since fall of the Berlin Wall
Exhibition next autumn will explore German unification in a global context
NewsMuseums
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston opens new Glassell School of Art building
Education is the MFAH’s “first and enduring mission”, says director Gary Tinterow
NewsBuilding projects
Ingleby Gallery’s new Edinburgh home was once the HQ of a religious sect
A show of new works by the Scottish artist Callum Innes opens the refurbished venue
FeatureMichelangelo
The UK's only marble Michelangelo takes pride of place at new Royal Academy
The Taddei Tondo has not always been treated as a masterpiece
NewsMuseums
Polish collector Grazyna Kulczyk to launch sprawling contemporary art complex in secluded Swiss valley town
Works from the entrepreneur’s extensive holdings will go on show in Muzeum Susch
BlogThe Buck stopped here
From Shrimp Eyes to Tom Odell: Royal Academy's collection (and VIPs) serenaded at opening party
FeatureRoyal Academy of Arts
We go behind the scenes as the Royal Academy celebrates 250 years
Delve into the heart of the revamped London institution—expanded, embellished and eccentric as ever
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Sparks fly at topping out of Goldsmiths university's new contemporary art space
NewsMuseums
Ottawa Art Gallery grows five times bigger in time for its 30th birthday
The free-entry museum of Canadian art was initially scheduled to be completed last year
NewsMuseums
Moscow museum opens archives of Stalin's Gulag labour camps
New research centre helps descendants discover fate of their family members
NewsMuseums
Norval Foundation near Cape Town opens months after launch of city's Zeitz museum
Staff from Africa's first mega museum have defected to the new private institution
CommentLetters
Letter to the editor: the Frick's viewing garden is worth preserving
CommentMuseums
The Frick’s expansion is a sensitive, elegant plan
The New York museum has shown it is a responsive listener and found ways to add much needed space and public amenities with surgical precision
NewsMuseums
Virginia University’s $41m kunsthalle aims to bridge town-gown divide
Richmond University's fine arts programmes are amongst highest-ranked in the US
NewsArt Basel Hong Kong 2018
Arresting development: a peek at Hong Kong's Central Police Station
Long-awaited heritage and arts centre, Tai Kwun, is expected to open in May
NewsMuseums
George Lucas tells a new story at the Museum of Narrative Art
Construction has launched on the $1bn non-profit project, built to be “the world’s most inclusive and accessible art museum”
NewsMuseums
Centre Pompidou's Brussels satellite takes shape with announcement of winning architects
Pre-launch programme of exhibitions in former Citroën garage will enable visitors to discover the building "in its raw state"
NewsBuilding projects
New York art and technology organisation announces new programmes for its 20th anniversary
Eyebeam plans residencies, fellowships and exhibitions for its new Brooklyn headquarters
NewsBuilding projects
The Shed's opening commissions are all about cross-disciplinary collaboration
Visual artists including Gerhard Richter and Steve McQueen will work with performers like Sia, Quincy Jones and Steve Reich
NewsMuseums
Children will have room to grow in new Manhattan museum
The former church that will be the home of the Children's Museum of Manhattan will include space for families to deal with traumatic or joyful world events
NewsBuilding projects
Tretyakov and Rem Koolhaas have designs on Moscow's vast Soviet exhibition space
The Central House of Artists is set to be the largest exhibition venue in Russia
NewsChina
Shanghai's East Bund on the rise as museums building boom continues
State-backed projects along Huangpu river could rival West Bund's private museums and galleries
NewsArchitecture
Ellsworth Kelly’s final work—and only building—opens in Texas
Artist donated his design for Austin to the Blanton Museum in 2015, the year he died
NewsMuseums
Plans for Grand Palais’s €466m facelift revealed: six new galleries and a Chanel-sponsored entrance
Three-year closure from 2020 means Fiac and Paris Photo fairs must relocate to temporary venues
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Cornelia Parker: from Westminster Hall to Cambridge’s Kettle's Yard
NewsBiennials & festivals
Prelude to a launch: New York’s new arts centre The Shed to host 12-day festival this May
Multi-disciplinary cultural centre is due to open in 2019
NewsBuilding projects
Jamie Fobert Architects to transform London's National Portrait Gallery
Firm behind recent expansion of Tate St Ives and Kettle's Yard will lead major £35.5m development
NewsMuseums
City council clears Lacma’s plans for South Los Angeles outpost
The museum will rehab a disused building in the neighbourhood’s Wetlands Park for storage and exhibition space, and start community arts programming within the next two years
NewsBuilding projects
Royal College of Art's new £108m campus gets green light and will focus on art, technology and science
Building designed by Herzog & de Meuron will be a centre for robotics and drone technology
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Newly refurbished Hayward lights up after dark
Brutalist museum reopens with new skylights and glass pyramids
NewsBuilding projects
Brutalist housing estate in Sheffield to host £21m art hub
Park Hill Art Space will include artists' studios and a research institute
NewsMuseums
South London Gallery’s new Fire Station annexe to open in September
Exhibition spaces and an artist’s studio have been created in the Victorian building that was donated by an anonymous benefactor
NewsCommissions
Ai Weiwei and Antony Gormley in the running for Treasure Island commissions
The $50m San Francisco Bay redevelopment plan includes several large-scale public sculptures
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2018
Our guide to the most important new museums and expansions in 2018
From striking new spaces in France and the US to major revamps of old favourites in London and Los Angeles
NewsMuseums
Masterplan revealed for Nelahozeves castle restoration
London-based firm Wright & Wright Architects to redevelop 16th-century home for Czech private collection
NewsArt market
Mark Bradford to launch Hauser & Wirth’s Hong Kong gallery
The Los Angeles artist is creating a new series of large-scale paintings for the show
CommentLeaders
Sydney’s flagship museum is entirely focused on building a costly extension. Why?
Unless the Art Gallery of New South Wales begins to focus more on exhibitions, there is every reason to believe that Sydney Modern will be a gigantic and costly flop
John McDonald