Woodland scene by Jan Brueghel the Elder heads to Washington DC; London’s National Portrait Gallery gets a Gainsborough via acceptance in lieu

Row over plaster cast of monarch dumped in the canal escalates after Danish culture ministry steps in

Devaney, previously at the RA for 22 years, will oversee artist’s catalogue raisonné among other projects

Mwazulu Diyabanza says that “museums do not deserve respect” as restitution debate intensifies

Proceeds from the pieces sold at Sotheby’s Paris in February will go towards the artist duo's estate

UK artist is showing more than 40 works in his Mental Escapology exhibition in the Alpine Swiss city

The Art Newspaper team picks apart this year's biggest art stories, from the art market heading online to the fight for racial justice

Suite of galleries in refurbished Courtauld Gallery will be named after the Ukraine-born industrialist

New exhibition at Musée Jacquemart-André presents 15th-century artist as an entrepreneur and prolific designer

Staff who have been made redundant are being recruited again following extension of furlough job retention scheme by UK government

But arts professionals heavily criticise the government decision, saying there is “no logic” behind the move

The Kingdom’s largest ever contemporary art exhibition will aim to deliver a more "open" image of the country

High-risk patients get Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine at Thackray Museum of Medicine

Rem Koolhaas’ Factory arts hub in Manchester—scheduled for completion in 2022—gets £21m grant

Former minister Rachida Dati calls on Emmanuel Macron to authorise the change

Exhibition on advocacy group Tottenham Rights—with a focus on Mark Duggan shooting—scheduled for next Spring

Credit X has created digital map and database of less established art spaces and galleries in the hopes of balancing out an art world "shaped by market forces", it says

Authorities are “building a case against” the artist, says sister

Tech entrepreneur Frédéric Jousset wants to shake up long-standing museum models through the ambitious award

German city lined up for 2026 edition but the next edition will vie with Venice Biennale and Documenta

The directors of the Met, Tate Modern, British Museum, Centre Pompidou and more, as well as artists such as Tracey Emin, tell us all about their favourite book—just in time for Christmas shopping

In a recently published Cahiers d’Art monograph, the US artist speaks about responding to “a tsunami of footage of Black people getting killed”

The institution has launched a voluntary redundancy scheme but could ‘move to compulsory redundancy in 2021’

Unseen works and Super 8 films reveal new aspects of her practice

£1.7bn project breaches Unesco’s World Heritage convention says group's lawyer

Activists and artists were trapped in Havana building following demonstrations against police action

Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces slight boost to culture department's budget, but some institutions face extended closure under new tiered system

The Society of Antiquaries is launching a campaign to stay in historic home of Burlington House, close to Piccadilly

Plaster casts were made of the newly discovered victims of Vesuvius eruption, which are believed to have been a wealthy landowner and his slave

New book brings together hundreds of images of nude young men, which “are imbued with an emotional vulnerability that few of his later works exhibit”