Closures

Scotland's pioneering Inverleith House gallery saved from closure

Working group appointed after public outcry recommends new programme mixing art and horticulture

David Roberts to close London space and open sculpture park in Somerset

Scottish collector hopes to attract a bigger audience in the countryside than in Camden

London's pioneering Wilkinson Gallery to close as owners go separate ways

Amanda and Anthony Wilkinson are setting up independent businesses in new locations

Singapore branch of Pinacothèque de Paris shuts too

Founder blames disappointing attendance on closure of Asian branch of for-profit museum

Austria’s Essl Museum to shut its doors after 17 years

Contemporary art collection will be kept in storage but there will be no more exhibitions

The end is nigh for New York’s Museum of Biblical Art

Unable to afford Manhattan’s astronomical rents, the small secular museum will close in June with its hit exhibition of Donatello sculptures on loan from the Duomo museum

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Kunstmuseum Basel to close for refurbishment

The museum will shut for just over a year to allow for improvements and additions to its infrastructure

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Christie’s close down Spink and take over the building for corporate headquarters

Serving a possibly premature coup de grâce to the oldest art dealership in the world