Local authorities are targeting cultural spending as a way of cutting their deficits but are facing vocal opposition

York Art Gallery, the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum and Bristol's Arnolfini among the contenders for Art Fund prize<br>

Galleries filled with blue-chip gifts plus highlights of the Fisher Collection will greet visitors when museum reopens <br>

The surprise news follows the Met's announcement of a restructuring that will probably include staff cuts

Museum has raised $275m towards $600m Peter Zumthor-designed project—but the donations come with a deadline

Billionaire collector strikes deal with city’s mayor to convert historic stock exchange

Liu Haisu Art Museum will also showcase work by emerging artists

Chinese collectors Wang Wei and Liu Yiqian look beyond Shanghai to vast but lesser-known city of Chongqing

New director Anne Pasternak challenges the museum to be more “nimble”, as re-installed Egyptian, American and European displays open to the public

New pavilion due to launch with exhibitions this autumn

We choose the must-see shows that commemorate the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death

The donation will help fund the museum’s expansion, with three floors of the building to be named after the studio executive

Entrance hall of new extension will now be named after the Ukraine-born industrialist

She replaces Hartwig Fischer, who took up his post as director of the British Museum this month

Shortlist of 13 architects announced for the planned institution near the city’s National Museum

Director wants to re-name the Parisian ethnographic art museum in honour of its founder, Jacques Chirac

Following the opening of its new building this weekend, the Swiss museum will show the abstract artist’s figurative work

Museum’s extension, which is due to open in June, will help broaden story of Modernism—but £30m still needs to be raised

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

Smithsonian trustees due to meet today to decide whether to open satellite in Stratford <br>

Director denies that politicians want to transfer collection to private foundation

As the Hammer Museum secures a donation of important collection of street photography by the Japanese artist Daido Moriyama, its chief curator speaks to us about how she’s working to build the collection and exhibition programme

The manuscript was once owned by the family of a German-Jewish politician who opposed Hitler

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