Inaugural show honours Belgian photographer and Cartier-Bresson's wife, who created the foundation to preserve their legacy

The University of Texas at Dallas is building its first museum to house the gift

We need to rethink our perceptions of an artist or an artefact as having a single, unified or homogenous heritage

New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester

Museum will receive the buildings in former Olympic park for free, director says

French museum takes Cosmopolis biennial platform to southwestern China less than a year before Shanghai outpost opens

Ten museums across America will participate in an inaugural project launched by the Association of Art Museum Directors

Campus expansions at three museums in Texas's biggest city focus on creating civic spaces as well as on showing art

More than a year after opening, the Cape Town museum’s curatorial and educational record has yet to live up to its promise

Hollein took Campbell's old job as director of the Met

Vatican conference on preventive conservation warns of environmental impact of short-term politics

Sheena Wagstaff says the move is part of a “positive, forward-thinking” new regime under Max Hollein’s directorship

Conservator calls in master storyteller to decipher shamanic object

The Nabu Museum collection combines antiquities with Modern and contemporary art

Tests by German institute show "characteristics inconsistent with ancient origin"

Institution hopes to raise £15,000 to clean and conserve wooden structure surrounding The Snake in the Grass

Former Art Deco swimming pool in Roubaix dives into Modern French sculpture

After painstaking work, its restorer curates a display at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie

Construction has launched on the $1bn non-profit project, built to be “the world’s most inclusive and accessible art museum”

Cultural locations in the Caribbean, the US Gulf coast and Mexico hit by recent hurricanes and earthquakes were a last minute addition to the list

Multi-disciplinary venue the Momentary will open in 2020

The collection of 197 works is largely by Vancouver-based artists like Ian Wallace, Rodney Graham, Damien Moppet, Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer, but also includes an important piece by Doris Salcedo

Filmmaker's personal collection will be on show, which includes works by Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth and Robert Crumb

The Tate director knew Tate Modern would need to expand before it even opened. It has happened sooner than expected

On the 25th anniversary of German reunification, we republish our first ever front-page story, in which East Berlin museums chief Günter Schade defends his record and reveals how East German museums sold in order to buy

Nevada Desert site around Michael Heizer’s City is under threat

Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact