A look at the top institutions due to launch worldwide in the coming year

Who benefits most from tax breaks on private art museums: patrons or the public?

Major gifts and purchases from around the world that stood above the rest

Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa

Director Gregor Muir hopes to revamp spaces

The hedge-fund manager has also funded the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Whitney Museum

The artist's foundation is funding a three-year project to bring the museum's drawings to students outside London

Management is in discussions with the UK-educated academic about her role in the 2016 Singapore Biennale <p> </p>

Prestigious institutions have sprung up around the world, from the Prada Foundation in Milan to the Broad in Los Angeles

Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

No cuts for national museums but regionals face ripple effect of reduced funding for local authorities

The Italian culture ministry plans to bring a contemporary art museum to L’Aquila

Visitors to the Louvre down by 35% and Pompidou's attendance reduced by half in the weeks after the atrocities

The National Museum in Tunis will share loans and exhibitions with Italian institutions

She served at the Guggenheim Museum for almost 30 years, and says she thought she'd never leave

Outgoing director’s portrait by Wolfgang Tillmans and a Lampedusa Cross among works added to collection

Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s €3m grant withdrawn, but institution plans to reapply for funding in new year

Four Old Master paintings, including Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, to remain on view

Five artists are creating site-specific commissions for Louisville ahead of museum's reopening