Museums

Walter Annenberg (far right) and friends

Annenberg ranch to open as museum

LONDON. The late Walter and Leonore Annenberg’s winter home and ranch, Sunnylands, in southern California near Palm Springs, is being turned into a house-museum dedicated to the philanthropists’ memory, and a VIP conference centre. The latter will have presidential-level security to permit heads of... >>>

From issue 211, March 2010.
Published online 17 Mar 10 (Museums)

Gallery gets home but no budget

Around €3m is now being sought through private backers to fund new media space in Brescia >>>

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Published online 18 Feb 10 (Museums)

London's Jewish Museum reopens after £10m expansion

Its Victorian home in Camden Town has been linked to a former piano factory next door, tripling the space >>>

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Published online 17 Feb 10 (Museums)

Grosz heirs vs MoMA case dismissed

Three-year statute of limitations has run out >>>

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From issue 210, February 2010.
Published online 3 Feb 10 (Museums)

Balance sheets

How the richest museums have fared in the past year >>>

From issue 210, February 2010.
Published online 28 Jan 10 (Museums)

Barnes Museum pushes forward move downtown

Designs approved for second home in Philadelphia >>>

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From issue 209, January 2010.
Published online 6 Jan 10 (Museums)

Museum attendance rises as the economy tumbles

In our survey of 20 major institutions, two-thirds saw an increase in visitor numbers over the past three years >>>

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From issue 208, December 2009.
Published online 9 Dec 09 (Museums)

Dia returns home to Chelsea

Director Philippe Vergne wants to "put the voice of the artist back at the centre" of the New York institution >>>

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From issue 208, December 2009.
Published online 25 Nov 09 (Museums)

Umberto Eco: master of the list

The author discusses his turn as guest curator at the Louvre >>>

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Published online 11 Nov 09 (Museums)

Tàpies museum reopens—and socks it to ‘em

A massive sculpture of a threadbare sock, which was previously rejected by Catalan authorities, dominates the new extension >>>

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Published online 26 Feb 10 (Museums)

Waterloo to Sedan: beaten but unbowed

Musée de l’Armée in Les Invalides opens 19th century galleries >>>

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Published online 17 Feb 10 (Museums)

International call for visitor figures

Museums are invited to submit attendance data for our annual survey >>>

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Published online 10 Feb 10 (Museums)

Recovery after annus horribilis

But directors are still making cuts in museum budgets >>>

From issue 210, February 2010.
Published online 28 Jan 10 (Museums)

Deitch to take over MOCA

The New York gallerist will head to Los Angeles this spring to lead the museum >>>

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Published online 11 Jan 10 (Museums)

Norway’s Munch Museum plan attracts more criticism

Opera house director suggests full-size model to assess impact >>>

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Published online 16 Dec 09 (Museums)

Cuneo Museum and Gardens given to Loyola University

The 50m gift includes the family mansion and collections >>>

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Published online 9 Dec 09 (Museums)

Controversy over New Museum's plans to show trustee’s collection

Exhibition raises a potential conflict-of-interest between private collectors and public institutions >>>

From issue 207, November 2009.
Published online 11 Nov 09 (Museums)

Guggenheim Bilbao, part II

The Basque museum plans to open a second outpost >>>

From issue 207, November 2009.
Published online 3 Nov 09 (Museums)

Ulster Museum in Northern Ireland reopens with Sean Scully retrospective

After a three year closure and £17.2m refurbishment, more of its permanent collections are on show >>>

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Published online 29 Oct 09 (Museums)

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Facade of the Fundacio Antoni Tapies' new home in Barcelona (Photo: Gala Sicart)

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La Invalides (Photo: Musee de l'Armee - Paris)

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Banner of the London Jewish Bakers' Union, around 1925 (Photo: Jewish Museum London)

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The proposed new building for the Barnes Foundation in downtown Philadelphia

Barnes Museum pushes forward move downtown

Munch, Anxiety, 1894 (detail)

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