South London museum has released new policies on restitution but says it will need to seek legal advice about the right to return artefacts

New book by Martin Kemp considers the impact of poet’s vision of divine light on artists such as Michelangelo and Titian

Anti-discriminative posters are part of festival Art Night 2021, where commissions this year will have a political tone

Pharaohs opulent golden parade was streamed as part of marketing exercise

An updated proposal will keep the collection organised around mediums instead of switching to a chronological approach

Laura Knight and Ingrid Pollard exhibitions also part of year-long women artists programme at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes

Author Ben Lewis is minting the masterpiece to highlight the art world’s ‘age-old inequities and injustices’

Russia's Tsar Alexander III began the most expensive Easter tradition in history in 1885 when he began gifting bejewelled eggs to his wife

Museum directors in London and the regions are cutting jobs and slashing budgets, raising concerns for the post-pandemic future of the sector

The formal name change—an administrative move—also means the Musée de l’Orangerie will be rebranded

New award backed by Spanish fashion brand Loewe will fund workspaces for seven artists at Studio Voltaire

Institution initially called the Museum of Sovereignty will present a balanced picture of the divisive EU debate, say founders

As future of London's historic Whitechapel foundry hangs in the balance, artist’s bell will be made elsewhere

Arno Widmann wrote that the 13th-century Italian author, best known for the Divine Comedy, was antiquated and difficult to understand

Naked montages uniting friends and lovers "reaffirm resilience of community"

Longest public art piece in Europe reflects community life, charting 170 local stories

President Alexis Cassin tells us why he thinks the event will succeed in November

Turner prizewinning collective Assemble will lead a project at the £120m creativity showcase

Production of The Mother monument took longer than expected due to its size and also because of how badly the UK was hit by the pandemic, city officials say

The Uffizi Diffusi project aims to "scatter" works from the Florence museum's collection around overlooked sites across Tuscany on short term loans

Sculpture of Edward Colston was pulled down by activists last summer and will now be placed in a museum

Trompe l’oeil image called La Ferita (The Wound) reflects on the difficulties of accessing culture during Covid-19 and reveals Botticelli’s Primavera and The Birth of Venus

The announcement was met with public outrage prompting more than 10,000 people to sign a petition against the cuts

Artist continues efforts to bring performance art to the masses as she collaborates with file-sharing platform and its editorial arm, WePresent

New York-based advocacy group Don’t Delete Art's comprehensive tips on how to comply with social media platforms' rules on art include advice from Facebook and Instagram staff

“The viewer might be shocked. It is life today,” says the artist who created the Covid-19 works in isolation in his studio in Dijon

Patron Maja Hoffmann is driving the ambitious cultural project in southern France

As a biography on the US painter is republished, its author Phoebe Hoban tells us why Neel’s work is more relevant than ever

A roundup of the latest art publications

Actéon auctioneers expect the 17th-century study of a male nude, authenticated by Ann Sutherland Harris and Louis de Bayser, to sell for €30,000 to €50,000