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Egon Schiele catalogue raisonné to go digital with updates on newly discovered works and provenance

The online platform will have an emphasis on connoisseurship says the catalogue’s author and art dealer Jane Kallir

Crowns made of chicken bones: on Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

A show of the artist's work in Sheboygan is sure to spur more interest in his art and life

Plenty to chew on: on Theatre of the World at the Guggenheim

The show, which was met with protest before it even opened, packs a punch

Ruben Östlund, the director of The Square, explains why the art world deserves to be mocked

The Swedish film-maker’s brutal satire set in a contemporary art museum comes to New York next month

Ai Weiwei’s refugee film Human Flow picked up by Amazon

The media production arm of the online retailer giant plans to release the documentary theatrically this autumn and stream it online

Vito Acconci: the controversial and pioneering US artist who refused all restraint to explore his body

He sat under a floor at a gallery with a microphone for eight hours and masturbated while speaking of his fantasies about people sitting above

Art drama muscles in on documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival

Artists’ lives—including Tom of Finland, Laurie Simmons, Julian Schnabel and Richard Hambleton—get the cinematic treatment

Legal battle over Schiele works owned by Jewish entertainer who died in Dachau

His heirs’ attempts to recover them will be framed by President Obama’s Holocaust Act

Beuys the myth, more than the artist, explained in new documentary

Andres Veiel’s film, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, is the most extensive revisiting of Joseph Beuys art and life for a general public

Cosmic collectors: how the Guggenheim family came into its art

An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York looks at how the collection was shaped

Montreal’s Max Stern Foundation gets its Bacchus back

The FBI recovered the work when it was offered for sale at the 2015 Spring Masters fair in New York

Art on film at Sundance, from Van Gogh’s landscapes to an orbiting VR vanitas

Drawings come to life and visitors follow the trail of malware code at the annual film festival in Park City, Utah

What a vivid imagination: on Sergei Eisenstein's erotic work

A group of "sex drawings" by the Soviet filmmaker are on show in New York

Cuban collector’s heirs settle over Wifredo Lam painting that resurfaced in Miami

Artist’s son warns of real and fake works flowing out of Cuba

Custodians of the Holy Land: the Franciscans to open new museum in Jerusalem

The monastic order, which has had a presence in the city since 1217, is planning a two-venue Terra Sancta Museum

Senate to vote on Holocaust restitution bill in a race against the clock

The new law, if passed, would set a national statue of limitations for claims on art looted by the Nazis

The radiant future that never came: on Communist art from the 1930s to today

A show at Galerie St. Etienne in New York looks at how left-wing politics once animated culture—and how they no longer do

How Toronto learned to embrace its street art

After the former mayor’s crackdown on graffiti triggered a backlash, city officials decided to stop arresting artists and start hiring them

The end of the world is coming to Manhattan

Robert Cenedella, the “Art Bastard”, brings his vision of the apocalypse to a gallery window just a week before the US election

The one that got away: film-maker tracks down the Warhol work that her family let go

After its New York Film Festival premiere, the charming documentary Brillo Box (3 ¢ off) will air on HBO in 2017

US museums’ Cuban dreams deferred

High-profile loan programmes are hindered by practical problems and political realities

François Hollande announces $100m fund to protect cultural heritage in the Middle East

The French president was joined by the US vice president Joe Biden at the Metropolitan Museum in New York Tuesday night

Three films to watch out for from the Toronto International Film Festival

From Jonas Mekas darkly humorous memories of escaping the Second World War, to concentration camp tourism, to a photographer facing the death of her favourite technology

Norton Simon Museum can keep Cranachs, California judge decides

A US court has dismissed a claim to recover two paintings looted by Nazis, but collector’s heir plans to appeal

The private pleasures of kings: on nudes from the Prado at the Clark Art Institute

The Spanish Catholic Church tried to curb images of nudity, but artists and patrons did not always oblige

Frida Kahlo’s potent portrait on US-Mexico border heads to Philadelphia

The 1930s painting, on show in October, is a timely response to the anti-immigrant stance of Donald Trump

Bronx Museum postpones show after Cuba halts loans to US

State-owned works of art risk seizure to satisfy $7bn of claims by Americans

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Art on film: why filmmakers are drawn to artists

Movies about artists may not be nailed-on money-spinners, but more and more are appearing—and some are even box-office hits.