A dozen major arts buildings are scheduled to open around Britain this year – £400 million-worth of new museums, including the new Tate Modern – built with lottery funds. But most of them are behind schedule and half are over budget. And when they do open there are fears there might not be audiences to support them. – BBC
- Tate Modern being carved out of a derelict former power station in a rundown part of London for $223 million. Expected to open in May and rank alongside New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Paris’s Pompidou Centre as one of the great modern art museums. – Chicago Tribune