State institutions shouldn’t collaborate with those who don’t understand their wider aims

Mu Xin Art Museum honours artist and poet whose work bridged Chinese and Western cultures

Works will not be transferred from the Prado to new Royal Collections museum

Institution is one of four in a new Doha development, the state’s latest bid to rebrand itself as a culture hub

Chancellor George Osborne finds money for British Museum and Victoria and Albert to display objects now in store

Grazyna Kulczyk has sold her culture centre in Poznan to dedicate herself to the project in the Polish capital

Exhibition co-organised by Germano Celant signals Iran’s soft power offensive

Colonial-era buildings transformed into space for Modern Southeast Asian art

Susan Philipsz's sound installation features instruments used by the armed forces

Jean-Luc Martinez calls for safe havens for antiquities, European centre to combat smuggling and reconstruction fund

Lacma director contributes to Frick Collection's panel on the long history collecting contemporary art

The former curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to merge best practices from US and UK museums

Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work

Eike Schmidt has big plans for Italy's most-visited museum, from high-tech ticketing software to new tax breaks

The Russian church and state-sponsored art grow ever closer through concurrent Soviet-themed exhibitions in Moscow

Mould flourished, floors buckled and ceilings leaked in the two buildings that housed the museum's permanent collection when it announced $34m renovation in 2009 at the height of the recession

The twists and turns of a mistaken provenance meant a work by Kirchner had entered the museum’s collection under the wrong title and date

The British Museum and British Library will contribute to events across the country

Artist, architect and critic among those killed by terrorists

Ministry of culture orders emergency measure after terrorist attacks

Renovated Paris museum reopens with emphasis on sculptor's creative process

Leading directors oppose Cimam president at centre of censorship row in Barcelona

The work by Claudius Jacquand shows a view of the museum’s home, a former Benedictine convent

New framework stresses return principle but some fear that traffickers in illicit objects could abuse it

Antonello da Messina’s triptych brought together in 15-year loan agreement

The culture wars may be over, but the debate over what public institutions can show lives on

Refurbished gallery gives more space to Modern objects but older artefacts still take pride of place