Public and private institutions in Venice, Milan and Turin will stay closed for at least a week as more than 200 cases of Covid-2019 are confirmed

Dispute centres on zero-hours contracts, pay devaluation, rising workloads and the gender and ethnicity pay gap

A woman connected to the museum where the painting was found is under investigation by the Italian police

Dissident wants to create a “political porn” website focusing on behaviour of people in power

First cohort of artist fellows includes Nancy Baker Cahill, Agnieszka Kurant and Pierre Huyghe

Louise Bourgeois’s Maman spider sculpture will also return to the Turbine Hall

Selection committee says British Afro-Caribbean artist "has consistently probed one of society’s big questions: how do we live with difference?”

Pro-Israel arts group protested to French culture ministry about her appointment

Streaming services have changed the way we watch television, but while they feature plenty of arts programming, there are few new commissions

Structure is inspired by places where people gather across London including migrant community hubs

Free entry—plus coffee and madeleines—promised for nocturnal visitors in a move that will allow an extra 30,000 people to see the exhibition

Jonty Bravery said he wanted to “push somebody off” more than a year ago

From today's finest figurative painters to British Baroque in the post-Brexit age

The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices

Exhibition project You, Me & Cold War Steve: the International Exhibition of the People has already been downloaded 3,000 times with scheduled venues across the globe

Artists Lina Lapelytė, Paul Maheke and Nina Beier will present new live performance works at Glasgow International contemporary art festival

British Museum and Art Loss Register collaborate over recovery of ancient bull decoration that was consigned to an online auction

The skateboards are produced in a limited marble edition of 25 and a wood edition of 500

Exhibitions in 2020 include Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, US painter Jennifer Packer, Chinese artist Cao Fei and Strasbourg-born Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Popular gallery was on the chopping block in latest budget option review

From dark and pensive Sudanese prints at the Mosaic Rooms to An-My Lê's US road trip photographs at Marian Goodman Gallery

Public collections usually avoid showing works that are on the market, but expert claims the $450m picture was made available to museums and collectors before the 2011 exhibition

Inaugural edition of the monumental show, opening this Friday, is free to the public

Washington Post design director tweets support for Fevzi Yazici who made the works in solitary confinement at Silivri Prison

Dominique and Arthur de Villepin say new space will be shaped by their collecting experiences and relationships with artists

The artist is the first of Algerian descent to be selected by France for the international exhibition, according to Le Monde

Current bid for re-imagined image of the controversial party leader stands at €45,000 in online auction

London-based artist plans to show the video later this year at a London space free to the public

Claimant says she feels “completely exposed” in her apartment overlooked by the museum

Major show will unpick ancient Indian philosophy made famous by Sting’s “eight-hour lovemaking session” claims