From audioguides without men to a new women's museum in London, here's how the art world is celebrating International Women's Day
We've compiled a list of exhibitions of events whose impact on foregrounding women artists is likely to live on beyond one calendar day
Museums in the firing line as UK council funding crisis bites
Local authorities in England are taking drastic action, including scrapping all funding for museums, leading some experts to argue that new funding models are the only way to survive
An-My Lê: the artist portraying the inhuman scale of war and small acts of resistance
Airlifted out of Vietnam as a teenager when Saigon fell, the Vietnamese American photographer makes no attempt to simplify the unbearably complex, and pits individual agency against huge geopolitical forces
New art project seeks to capture the sounds of migration
The initiative is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Cities and Memory, which since 2015 has been forming a sound map of the world
Cleaner's cupboard becomes a walk-in camera obscura: hidden backrooms of London's V&A transformed into new photography centre
Seven dedicated galleries will now exhibit the full range and depth of the museum world’s oldest photography collection
Confronting Land Art and the Western frontier: Lucy Raven on how the two US cultural legacies influenced her new works at Dia Chelsea
New York-based artist's exhibitions opens at Dia Art Foundation's new and improved space in New York
Robots and submarines: France's new state-of-the-art ship is a game changer for marine archaeology
Big enough to cross the Atlantic, the high-tech research vessel Alfred Merlin ushers in a new era for French underwater heritage
Sophie Taeuber-Arp survey reveals the dizzying range of work by the Swiss artist
The major travelling exhibition opens at the Kunstmuseum Basel before travelling to London's Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Slowing the news: artists commissioned to document a US election year through the act of drawing
The final part of an exhibition, delayed by the unprecedented events of 2020, opens at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Bourse de Commerce: opening of Pinault's long-awaited Paris museum is—pandemic permitting—finally around the corner
Two decades since the billionaire started planning a home for his collection in the French capital, the spectacular space is due to open on 23 January
Major museum openings and expansions in 2021
From the much-anticipated Grand Egyptian Museum to the Frick’s move to a Brutalist landmark, here are the building projects aiming to change cultural landscapes around the world
Can artists change the world? MoMA show explores political art from the early 20th-century
The works on paper from the Merrill C. Berman Collection include designs for Communist posters and salad oil advertisements
Uyghur civilisation in China continues to be erased as part of chilling mission
Australian think tank data reveals that two-thirds of the region’s mosques have been either destroyed or damaged
Incarceration is part of the American experience for many—its art is explored in a major new show at MoMA PS1
Exhibition in New York will include works made by those who are part of—or who have ties to—the largest prison population in the world
When did just looking at art lose its appeal?
Sleep in Hopper’s motel room or dive into Monet’s pond—museums are increasingly going beyond traditional exhibition formats to attract visitors
America's Deep South heads to the UK’s south coast for remarkable exhibition
Around 20 artists from the US will show at Margate's Turner Contemporary, some for the first time in a UK institution
What will cultural philanthropy look like in the 21st century? A new forum aims to find out
A survey of 500 art world professionals conducted by the Arts Funders Forum could help museums stay relevant to new patrons
Marcel Duchamp’s box of delights opens at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Readymades, miniature reproductions, collaborations with Man Ray, and games of chess to feature in new show
Brafa to auction section of the Berlin Wall for charity
Five graffitied segments were bought by the non-profit Brussels art fair last year and will be exhibited at the event next year
Dissecting a gallery in a remade MoMA
Among the most striking examples of the museum's more global and inclusive approach is a gallery with the theme War Within, War Without
'Art history isn’t the neat package you think it is': first look at MoMA's $450m expansion
How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening