New Museums
Marina Abramovic hires Rem Koolhaas to design her centre
The museum will purportedly need $8m in funds
Oslo could get a contemporary art space bigger than the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern
A fortress's sewage works may soon become home to contemporary art installations
Eastern European cities look to Tate Modern: developing modern museums and contemporary spaces
Budapest, Zagreb and Warsaw raise their game with newer, bigger, better exhibition spaces
Controversy over Israeli Tolerance Museum site
Court rules in favour of building despite claims that Muslim graves will be desecrated
Daniel Libeskind in war of words with Berlusconi
The architect has described the Italian Prime Minister as a xenophobe who “hates foreigners” and compares his government to the Fascist regime
Plans for Kolkata Museum of Modern Art: India's answer to Tate Modern?
A major new museum to be built in eastern India is being largely supported by commercial galleries and corporate collections
Official opening of New Acropolis Museum to feature partially recreated Parthenon frieze
The museum, which has been in development since 1976, is finally opening its doors
Major collectors and new museums in the Middle East
Focus on Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman
New competition for Warsaw museum architect
Top practitioners had been excluded due to “Kafka-esque” rules
First Tate Modern, now Herzog & de Meuron convert power station in Madrid
Spain's La Caixa follows in Tate's footsteps
Plans for Calder Museum in Philadelphia founder
Foundation fails to commit specific works to create the core of a permanent collection
Miami collectors champion German painting, with the more traditional medium increasingly gaining favour over video works and installations
Leipzig School to the fore: “They didn’t know painting was dead”
Curator barred from Polish project to build contemporary art museum
Politics, again, involve Anda Rottenberg
Turin gets a private museum of decorative art
Pietro Accorsi's long wait to showcase his collection is over
Collector interview: Peter Maenz. “It felt like home”
The former Cologne art dealer has given, lent, and sold parts of his collection to Weimar, in eastern Germany
The Hermitage proposes a Museum of Applied and Decorative Arts. $150 million wanted for joint commercial/museum scheme
British architect, Christopher Seddon, is the project manager
The end of World War II for Berlin’s paintings: The Bode and the Dahlem come together in harmony at the Gemäldegalerie
The State Paintings Collection has opened in Berlin’s Kulturforum
Ernst Beyeler’s museum opens
One of the world’s greatest collections of modern Impressionist and post-Impressionist art goes on view this month in a $37 million building by Renzo Piano
A late, great collector and the new museum of his collection: The legacy of the ever elusive John Hunt
One of Europe’s greatest private collections of medieval material and works of art from antiquity to the twentieth century is now on view in Ireland
Famous writer’s eclectic collection to open to the public in 1998 with $4.6 million from the Bavarian State
A museum of chaos to make men marvel
Taiwan round-up: Belgian Expressionists, Warhol and a new museum in Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts opens a year ahead of schedule
Tate planning a national gallery for the twentieth-century before the twentieth century’s done
Tate makes early bid for National Lottery largesse to expand southward