Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is returning the favour and lending one of its works after showing the Frick’s Vermeers in its blockbuster exhibition last year

The RA chief, who saw the institution through the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Ian Wardropper next spring

A wave of construction projects is updating and expanding the city’s art and cultural institutions, indicating a trend toward modernisation and growth

Ian Wardropper has been leading the museum since 2011, guiding it through its renovation and temporary relocation to the former Whitney Museum building

The Grand Egyptian Museum should open at last, while Masp in São Paulo gets a tower-block extension

With 83% of its renovation fund raised, the museum is on target to reopen in its historic home in late 2024

From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more

The institution will reopen in its historic mansion, which is undergoing a $160m renovation, by the end of 2024

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

According to the museum, the portrait by Giovanni Battista Moroni is “the most significant Italian Renaissance painting” it has acquired in more than half a century

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The institution is the first New York museum to be honoured by the city’s mayor for its employment efforts

Two years after the death of art critic Germano Celant, who first coined the movement’s name, Arte Povera is making splashes in the city and beyond

Doron Langberg will pair off with Hans Holbein, and Salman Toor will join Vermeer in the Breuer building this week

The 26 works, promised by a New York collecting couple, enhance the museum’s current holdings and add new artists to its collection

From Julie Mehretu’s mid-career survey at the Whitney to the Frick Collection’s temporary encampment in the Breuer building

While the stark presentation of the masterworks creates a revelatory clarity, the exhibition also has a domesticating effect on the Modernist architecture

Plus, the story of a notorious forger and artist Collier Schorr on August Sander

Before the public opening on 18 March, see the startling installation of the museum's Old Masters collection in the Brutalist Breuer building

Evocative surprises await: while its Gilded Age home is closed for renovation and expansion, the Frick displays its masterworks in austere Modernist surroundings on Madison Avenue

Exclusive extracts from a new book bringing together texts by 62 cultural figures describing their preferred works in the Frick Collection

After the Met vacates the Breuer building, the Frick will take over with a chronological presentation of masterworks

Extensive scientific testing of the Frick’s Mistress and Maid proves that it was not finished by someone else

The Arnhold family began collecting Meissen porcelain in the 1920s and the heir has given more than 100 examples to the New York museum

Institutions in New York, Boston and Washington underline the need to control the spread of Covid-19

From Guercino drawings at the Morgan to meditations on Cézanne at Ceysson & Bénétière

Historic photographs and contemporary papers have been used in new book to re-imagine the cycle

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation

Branches across the boroughs are now hosting museums' educational programmes

From Moroni's inventive portraiture to Hans Op de Beeck's dreamlike world