Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

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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

Lina Bo Bardi's radical displays return to Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Modernist architect's glass easels, which make paintings seemingly float, were removed in 1990s<br> <br>

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Jack Persekian steps down as director of new Palestinian Museum

Institution is due to open near Jerusalem next year

Tunisian foundation backs research for artists’ projects

But eight recipients are not required to create a finished work

Hundreds protest oil sponsorship at Louvre during UN climate change conference

International activists arrested after spilling fake oil in the museum entrance

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Korean artists protest appointment of former Barcelona museum director due to censorship concerns

Bartomeu Marí—the new director of MMCA in Seoul—stepped down earlier this year over controversial sculpture exhibit

Buy a piece of the action

Artists who organised performances in Collins Park earlier this week, as part of Art Basel in Miami Beach’s Public sector, also work in other media and had pieces on sale at the fair

Galleries go off the beaten track

At the fair, dealers reveal the special appeal of St Barth, Somerset, Ibiza and Havana

Depart Foundation arrives in Miami

Organisation moves into South Beach hotel

Picasso, the master of experimentation

The prolific artist turned his hand to ceramics, photography, textiles and even poetry

The sculpture is mightier than the sword

French dealer Kamel Mennour highlights art’s role in developing humanity

François Pinault denies Paris museum plan

Reports say city’s mayor will help to find site

US presidents and Taiwan back Eisenhower Memorial

Frank Gehry revises controversial design but the family of the soldier and statesman remains unimpressed

Palestinian Museum partnership draws criticism

Not everyone is happy about the Institut du Monde Arabe's decision to co-found a museum in the West Bank

Spanish museum squabble over Old Masters ends

Works will not be transferred from the Prado to new Royal Collections museum

Qatar opens slavery museum

Institution is one of four in a new Doha development, the state’s latest bid to rebrand itself as a culture hub

Fresh face for Frieze Projects

Raphael Gygax, who has acted as a fair adviser, takes the reins in 2016

Art world rallies around artist sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia

Cultural figures take a stance against court ruling condemning Ashraf Fayadh for apostasy

Western curator explores works by Iranian artist in the heart of Tehran

Exhibition co-organised by Germano Celant signals Iran’s soft power offensive

Louvre's director draws up 50-point plan in response to Isil's destruction

Jean-Luc Martinez calls for safe havens for antiquities, European centre to combat smuggling and reconstruction fund

Barcelona boosted by new contemporary art initiative

Fundació Gaspar will host a major exhibition of works by Paul McCarthy in 2016

UK partners with India for major cross-cultural festival in 2017

The British Museum and British Library will contribute to events across the country

Paris Tableau folded into Biennale des Antiquaires

This year’s edition of Old Master fair was the last in its current form

Migration and climate change the focus of Palermo-based Manifesta in 2018

City’s outspoken mayor is backing the biennial, which could transform the island’s identity