Canada: The Art Gallery of Ontario reopens this month after a four year, C$230m expansion designed by Toronto-born Frank Gehry. C$100m was contributed from the late media magnate Ken Thomson, who also donated some 2,000 works of art to the museum.
China: A new 80,000 sq metre building to house the National Art Museum of China's growing collection of Chinese modern and contemporary art is to be built next to the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium. The project has a budget of £100m and is expected to be completed within the next three years.
France: More than 250,000 people have visited the exhibition of 17 sculptures and installations by the New York-born artist Jeff Koons at the Palace of Versailles. The attendance is exceptional for the autumn as visitor numbers tend to drop off during this period. The show has been extended until the beginning of January.
Israel: A Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for the building of a Frank Gehry-designed Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem on a site that was once a Muslim cemetery. The $250m project had been delayed since early 2006 when builders unearthed human remains.
Arab leaders in Israel sued to stop the project. The ruling requires museum builders to consult with Israel's Antiquities Authority on how to rebury remains unearthed during construction.
Mexico: A house that once contained the entrance to a tunnel used by drug traffickers less than 30 metres from the US-Mexican border has been converted into a 280 sq metre international art centre run by a US-Mexican not-for-profit organisation.
Sweden: As of 2009, state funded museums will be required to pay fees to artists based in Sweden when mounting exhibitions showing their work. Fee levels will vary depending on museum visitor numbers and whether or not exhibitions are solo shows. The rules were drawn up by artists' organisations in collaboration with the Swedish Arts Council.
Switzerland: A large haul of antiquities found in the possession of an art dealer couple in 2001 is to be returned to Italy after a seven-year legal battle. The 4,400 artefacts were taken from archeological sites in the eastern Italian region of Apulia and in northern Italy.
US: The Detroit Institute of Arts is facing major cutbacks less than a year after reopening its renovated $158m building. The museum is heading for a $17m deficit in 2008 following a string of annual operating shortfalls that totalled nearly $100m in the past 10 years.
Compiled by Magnus von Wistinghausen. Seen in Artsjournal.com and the Art Newspaper
China: A new 80,000 sq metre building to house the National Art Museum of China's growing collection of Chinese modern and contemporary art is to be built next to the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium. The project has a budget of £100m and is expected to be completed within the next three years.
France: More than 250,000 people have visited the exhibition of 17 sculptures and installations by the New York-born artist Jeff Koons at the Palace of Versailles. The attendance is exceptional for the autumn as visitor numbers tend to drop off during this period. The show has been extended until the beginning of January.
Israel: A Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for the building of a Frank Gehry-designed Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem on a site that was once a Muslim cemetery. The $250m project had been delayed since early 2006 when builders unearthed human remains.
Arab leaders in Israel sued to stop the project. The ruling requires museum builders to consult with Israel's Antiquities Authority on how to rebury remains unearthed during construction.
Mexico: A house that once contained the entrance to a tunnel used by drug traffickers less than 30 metres from the US-Mexican border has been converted into a 280 sq metre international art centre run by a US-Mexican not-for-profit organisation.
Sweden: As of 2009, state funded museums will be required to pay fees to artists based in Sweden when mounting exhibitions showing their work. Fee levels will vary depending on museum visitor numbers and whether or not exhibitions are solo shows. The rules were drawn up by artists' organisations in collaboration with the Swedish Arts Council.
Switzerland: A large haul of antiquities found in the possession of an art dealer couple in 2001 is to be returned to Italy after a seven-year legal battle. The 4,400 artefacts were taken from archeological sites in the eastern Italian region of Apulia and in northern Italy.
US: The Detroit Institute of Arts is facing major cutbacks less than a year after reopening its renovated $158m building. The museum is heading for a $17m deficit in 2008 following a string of annual operating shortfalls that totalled nearly $100m in the past 10 years.
Compiled by Magnus von Wistinghausen. Seen in Artsjournal.com and the Art Newspaper
