Denmark: The Arken Museum of Modern Art in Ishøj will be based on an island from next autumn designed by the architects Møller & Grønborg. Three bridges will lead visitors over a lagoon from the mainland to the museum site. “The initial concept called for locating the museum on the beach in [nearby] Køge Bay, but this had to be abandoned, partly because of planning conditions for the area around Ishøj harbour,” said a museum spokeswoman.

Germany: The Nigerian-born artist Emeka Udemba plans to take his mobile contemporary art museum on a tour of Germany this year. Artists including Katrin Ströbel will feature in the Exchanging Space exhibition.

Russia: The art patron Dasha Zhukova has announced that her Garage Museum of Contemporary Art will reopen in June, in the 1960s Vremena Goda restaurant in Moscow’s Gorky Park. The new space, converted by Rem Koolhaas, includes five galleries, education spaces and a screening room. The Russian artist Erik Bulatov has been commissioned to create a large-scale installation for the space.

US: The Friends of the Parks has filed a federal lawsuit to prevent the construction of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Chicago’s lakefront. The non-profit group said the site could not be developed by a private body, and that the project violated the US constitution. The museum is the brainchild of Star Wars creator George Lucas.

Seen in the Art Newspaper, the Guardian and the Telegraph