More than two decades after it first opened Tate’s new extension is set to offer more space for the inspirational work of the St Ives artists.

Three art galleries on England’s south-eastern coast are lighting up summer with a series of exhibitions featuring LS Lowry, Bridget Riley and William Gear.

Amidst a global tour marking his 70th birthday, Sean Scully’s Dublin homecoming is a special moment – the first living artist to have a major solo exhibition in the National Gallery of Ireland.

New York’s 9/11 Memorial Museum on the site of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center is a tough visit.

Dramatic headlines as world record prices are paid in New York for both a single painting and a single sculpture.

New York’s latest gallery – the $422 million Whitney Museum of American Art – will set the pace in the Big Apple with its edgy downtown location, bold design and adventurous programming.

Impactful, courageous and a design triumph. The new National Center for Civil and Human Rights in downtown Atlanta lays claim to the city’s pivotal role in the dramatic events of the 1960s – and broadens its remit to the universal theme of human rights around the globe.

Visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site in Atlanta, Georgia, for a lesson in how the power of place, story, objects, thought and feeling combine to deepen meaning and to inspire present and future action.

Almost 5000 museum professionals have gathered in Atlanta for the world’s largest annual museums conference – the overarching theme is The Social Value Of Museums: Inspiring Change.

By Tim Cooke

The announcement of the forthcoming departure of Neil MacGregor as Director of the British Museum has probably received more global media coverage and comment than any previous individual move in museum history.