The objects were taken from a display case at St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The author's new publication charts the history of the UK and Ireland from the last Ice Age to today

In an era of stretched public coffers and cuts, endowments can offer financial resilience and independence. But they are likely to prove out of reach for smaller museums, which may find it hard to accrue donations for longer-term projects

The recent nomination of Khaled el-Enany will be put to a vote on 6 November

Gallaccio's series was commissioned by the UK Government Art Collection, as part of the Robson Orr Ten Ten Award

Opening next March, the revamp will increase the number of galleries from four to seven as part of the museum's Future Plan development programme

Speaking to ‘The Art World: What If…?!’ podcast, Glenn Lowry also discussed plans for a new museum directors leadership initiative, and delivered his verdict on his successor

The Danish-Icelandic artist, who also launched a permanent public art piece in the UK this week, took a block of ice from Greenland to Rome

The work, which is located at Gunnersbury Park Museum, relays the stories of individuals involved with humanitarian assistance

The newly announced initiative follows the popular City of Culture scheme, which has been running since 2013

The digital project, which was funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, presents looted objects in 3D form

The Chinese artist, whose exhibition ‘Gunpowder and Abstraction 2015-25’ is currently on show at the London gallery, has been accused of ‘cultural violence’ in Tibet

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s London show encourages visitors to make difficult choices related to real-world issues

The Chicago-born artist has been speaking ahead of a major show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts

The Re: assemblages symposium will bring together artists, scholars and publishers “to collectively rethink African and Afro-diasporic archives as living, contested and future-shaping spaces”

Nominees for the £25,000 award were selected on the basis of what the judges felt to be the strongest and best exhibitions of the past year

The portrait of the artist's lover Dora Maar goes under the hammer with an estimate of €8m

Jennings was selected for the project by the UK government, which has announced a provisional construction budget of up to £46m

The Beijing-born artist and activist has recently spent time near the front line in Ukraine and is unveiling a major new commission in Kyiv—a large-scale installation responding to armed conflict—as well as a site-specific intervention made from Lego on a Ukrainian train

More than 50 artists and cultural figures, many of them based in Israel, have signed the letter

The group of sub-postmasters will work with the museum to tell their own stories, in their own words

Speaking at the recent Art Business Conference, Tristram Hunt also called for a reversal of changes to inheritance tax policy and for art's return to school curriculums

The now separate paintings, ‘Portrait of a Dwarf’ and ‘Two Figures’, were once part of the same work

Fifty sculptors will split the funds, which are given against the backdrop of the UK's cost-of-living crisis and funding cuts across the culture sector

The centres opens on 13 September at the V&A East Storehouse, and mines a vast archive to explore the musician’s artistic processes, networks and influences

Together the institutions will launch a project focused on the production and exhibition of new works by international artists

“A Second Life”, which will include the famous sculpture “My Bed”, will open at Tate Modern in February 2026

The work at London's Royal Courts of Justice was revealed by the street artist on Instagram

Nicholas Cullinan says that French and UK experts will guide every stage of the loan