Study calculates economic impact of 6.25m visitors over three years since the museum’s reopening in midtown Manhattan

Top practitioners had been excluded due to “Kafka-esque” rules

The director admitted they would not otherwise be able to obtain such a piece

Lars Nittve has asked the Swedish government for $6.8m to spend on female artists

However, a complaint lodged against Guy Cogeval, Antoine Salomon and Mathias Chivot was met with a counter-suit arguing that evidence had been fabricated

The works focus on American conservatism under the Bush administration

Shortly before his death in January, William Rubin handed us his manuscript

Here we publish an account of the memoirs of the late William S. Rubin, director of the paintings and sculpture department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for 15 years

Money is needed to ensure the long-term survival of the institution set up by Victorian artist G.F. Watts

The head of Architecture and Design will instead focus on his own firm

There is a basic problem in suggesting that earned income can keep a museum afloat

The works form part of a collection gifted to the museum by real estate developer Edward R. Broida

Cornelia H. Butler, previously at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, scores the role

Around 50 new works are on view, including 16 examples never before seen at the museum

The plum blossoms painting is one of the artist's last works

The Alcoa Corporation is marking its entry into Russia by funding the tour of a Warhol Museum show

MoMA’s $3 million cup of tea

Christopher Hudson follows up Michael Maegraith

To consecrate the new building, the museum's board has received a massive overhaul

The property was purchased during the expansion project, and includes all the land west of the museum between 53rd and 54th Streets and Sixth Avenue

“This is the only time in Iran that a cultural manager has been supported by artists like this”, he tells The Art Newspaper

The gift increases the museum’s endowment to $7.1 million

Rather than sticking to his traditional oeuvre, the show demonstrates how Vuillard embraced stylistic risk-taking and the avant-garde

The foundation has offered the museum a collection of more than 2,500 drawings by 400 international artists

A grant will enable them to probe incomplete provenance records

The money will go to the museum after his death, with yearly donations scheduled until that time

Still excluded from the material was correspondence we had requested relating to the final price of £22 million

Whilst the motivation behind his departure is unexplained, his career, driven by his reformist values, has left its mark on Iranian culture

The Raphael was bought by the National Gallery for £22 million in February 2004