Critics and city planners question changes to a historic reflecting pool and addition of stacked stone walls in a Modernist environment, while the artist Hiroshi Sugimoto defends his designs but says he is open to negotiating

Leighton House Museum—which was once the home and studio of artist Lord Leighton—is undergoing restoration and will reopen in 2021

Sites of major importance—many in regions already ravaged by conflict—are contending with security problems and funding shortfalls

After years of neglect, ornate Victorian auditorium in northern seaside town of Morecambe is being saved

Luigi Brugnaro's "entrepreneurial" decision violates Venice's historic agreement with Italian state to keep the landmark open to the public

Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure as part of cost-cutting measures by local council

The reconstruction of the Central Vista is a significant step in the prime minister's efforts to sever the nation from its colonial past

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

Institutions act on go-ahead from the city after their second closing in November

New NGV Contemporary building is the latest ambitious construction project planned in the country

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

Bipartisan effort, decades in the making, permits Smithsonian Institution to move ahead with plans

The museum’s debut, repeatedly postponed, is now anticipated in September of next year

A Paris court has ordered Léone-Noëlle Meyer and the University of Oklahoma to return to the negotiating table

There is not a person in the arts who wants to open until it is safe to do so, but we cannot even prepare to start without state guidelines

Brian P. Kennedy says he will seek a “new challenge” but offers no further details

Amid the turmoil of the pandemic and the recent elections, US institutions with Tibetan Buddhist holdings respond with mindfulness events

The art space in a historic building in the Belt neighbourhood will open with a show curated by the street artist Kaws

Goals include better pay and benefits, Covid-19 safety and a role in the institutions’ decision-making

Suite of galleries in refurbished Courtauld Gallery will be named after the Ukraine-born industrialist

Some say they hope to reopen in January, while many others have remained shut for nearly a full year

Alyssa Nitchun hopes to advance New York museum’s role as a queer sanctuary and “provocateur”

Researchers at C2RMF give an exclusive preview of their forensic study of all the artist's works in French museum collections

But arts professionals heavily criticise the government decision, saying there is “no logic” behind the move

Arts organisation Neon are working on the project with the Greek government to mark 200 years since the country’s liberation from the Ottoman Empire

City hopes the $230m new building will raise its profile as an art destination to match Basel

From a steam cog railway to the baroque Venetian palazzo abandoned by the Armenians , Europa Nostra chooses candidates for its 2021 Seven Most Endangered Sites list

Utah Republican says that such museums would “divide an already divided nation”

High-risk patients get Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at Thackray Museum of Medicine

Campaign, which hopes to turn the Oxford home into a literary centre, has been backed by actors from the film adaptation Ian McKellen and Martin Freeman