Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Christine Macel named director of the 2017 Venice Biennale

The chief curator at the Centre Pompidou will organise the 57th International Art Exhibition next year 

V&A curators unveil 3D-printed portrait of Chelsea Manning in Davos

Model was created using DNA of the transgender whistleblower

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Elmgreen & Dragset create a fictional art fair in Beijing

The Well Fair sees artist duo create a “reversed power relationship”

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Palestinian Museum to open in May

Inaugural show will focus on the objects that individual Palestinians would never part with

Watts couple’s revamped ‘his and hers’ studios to open in Compton

Visitors can watch conservators at work in the renovated space

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Dubai turns to photography in bid to become UAE’s premier arts hub

Dubai Photo Exhibition to launch in March with works from 23 countries

Art world hero: artists and curators pay tribute to David Bowie

British musician, artist and actor inspired a generation of artists including Tracey Emin and Dexter Dalwood

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Louvre-Lens director Xavier Dectot steps down after five years, and heads for Edinburgh

Medieval expert will head the department of art and design at the National Museum of Scotland

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Art among the cacti: recurring exhibition to launch in the Southern Californian desert

Site-specific works will be dotted around Coachella Valley for the new Desert X show

Designers needed for travelling pavilion dedicated to Charlie Hebdo

Project on free speech launches on the first anniversary of terrorist attacks at Paris satirical magazine

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Three Tunisian artists freed on appeal, but two others remain in prison

Human Rights Watch organisation is concerned about the plight of Adnen Meddeb and Amine Mabrouk, who were charged under anti-drugs legislation

For-profit Parisian museum in receivership

Founder of the Pinacothèque hopes to restructure the institution

The Year Ahead: international biennials in 2016

The top art, design and architecture exhibitions around the world this year

The Year Ahead: museums opening in 2016

A look at the top institutions due to launch worldwide in the coming year

Fears of political crackdown in Cairo after Townhouse Gallery is closed

Officials inspect the established culture venue as the Arab Spring anniversary draws near

EU law rejects Getty Lysippos restitution verdict

Legal battle resumes for the Victorious Youth, which is housed at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles

Jorvik Viking Centre, a heritage attraction in York, is flooded and forced to close

<p> Artefacts have been moved off-site after 50 centimetres of water swamps the basement museum </p>

Art-world experts on their highs and lows of 2015—and their top tips for next year

Figures including Sarah McCrory and Serge Lasvignes reveal their highlights and biggest disappointments

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Jenny Holzer draws on Walt Whitman for Aids memorial

App will allow people to keep memories alive far beyond New York

Kenneth Griffin gives MoMA $40m—one of the New York museum's largest ever donations

The hedge-fund manager&nbsp;has also funded the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Whitney Museum

Susie Lingham steps down as director of the Singapore Art Museum after only two years

Management is in discussions with the UK-educated academic about her role in the 2016 Singapore Biennale <p> </p>

2015's best new museums

Prestigious institutions have sprung up around the world, from the Prada Foundation in Milan to the Broad in Los Angeles

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Germany could pay $3m to borrow Tehran’s Modern art

Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Mary Beard will front follow-up to influential 1960s BBC Civilisation series

Trio of presenters to&nbsp;tell&nbsp;the story of art on a global scale&nbsp;from Antiquity to today&nbsp;

Museum attendance in Paris plummets after terrorist attacks

Visitors to the Louvre down by 35% and Pompidou's attendance reduced by half in the weeks after the atrocities

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Human rights group raises fears over artists imprisoned in Tunisia

Five men have been sentenced under Law52, the anti-drugs legislation enforced by the country’s former president

Madrid’s Royal Collections settles dispute with Prado museum

Four Old Master paintings, including Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, to remain on view

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Swiss scholar Corinne Diserens to curate Taipei Biennial

Tenth edition will focus on the role of museums and institutional bureaucracy

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Venice Biennale’s Iraq Pavilion show to travel to Belgium and Brazil

Invisible Beauty exhibition features works by five Iraqi artists

Venice mayor threatens to sell a Chagall or Klimt

The cash-strapped city is considering selling "non-Venetian" works from its museums to pay for public services such as schools