Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Little Pompeii of Vienne is 'most exceptional excavation of a Roman site in 40 or 50 years'

Ancient settlement was discovered south of Lyon during construction of four apartment blocks

Warburg Institute appoints the V&A’s Bill Sherman as director

Scholar says the library founded by Aby Warburg “badly needs some profile raising”

Miami patron Dennis Scholl becomes chief executive of ArtCenter/South Florida

Seasoned collector takes charge at the little-known non-profit, which has an $88m endowment

What Thomas Campbell did next: ex-Met chief decamps to LA for research fellowship

As beneficiary of the Getty Rothschild award, the tapestries scholar will contemplate where the culture sector is heading

François Pinault funds restoration of historic drawings of Paris's former stock exchange

The French billionaire plans to open a museum in the Bourse de Commerce in 2019

Ren Hang’s provocative photographs feature in Shanghai Photofairs’ new Spotlight section

Images by late photographer were last works to be authenticated by artist before his death

Paris exhibition and auction throw spotlight on refugee NGOs in France

Works by Cindy Sherman and Glenn Ligon to go on show at the Palais de Tokyo and on the block in Christie’s sale

Galleries and programme confirmed for ninth Abu Dhabi Art fair

New curated section organised by Omar Kholeif aims to bring new works to Middle Eastern audiences

Three Francis Bacon works stolen in Madrid recovered by Spanish police

Paintings were seized following a tip-off from the Art Loss Register

Centre Pompidou will pop up in Shanghai’s West Bund cultural corridor

Paris museum will organise 20 exhibitions in new satellite space as part of renewable five-year deal

Major Modern Russian collection heads to Fondation Louis Vuitton

After Shchukin show, private Paris museum cements Franco-Russian relationship with exhibition of blue-chip works bought by Morozov brothers

Depression and radicalisation: images reveal plight of displaced male refugees

Edward Jonkler’s photographs, on view in London, show men held in limbo at centres in Europe and the Middle East

Catherine Opie turns her lens on David Hockney, Gillian Wearing and Isaac Julien

Debut show at Thomas Dane Gallery includes new works from US photographer’s Portraits and Landscapes series

Louvre’s Poussin masterpieces damaged after torrential rain hits Paris

Water seeped in to areas of the museum including the Islamic Art rooms and 17th-century French painting galleries

Design dealers are back in the Fiac fold

The established Modern and contemporary Parisian fair revives a section last seen in 2009

Work begins at The Factory—the Manchester arts hub designed by Rem Koolhaas’s OMA

Cube-shaped building will provide permanent home for Manchester International Festival

David Hockney gallery opens in Bradford ahead of artist’s 80th birthday

New space will include early sketchbooks, recent iPad images and family photography albums

Three to See: Les Rencontres d'Arles photography festival

From 66 Iranian photographers to Joel Meyerowitz’s slick city scenes

Cass Sculpture Foundation to commission public art for Battersea Power Station district

Southbank Centre chief Jude Kelly is advising on new riverside residential and commercial development

Qatar blockade tests cultural relations

Museums hope to overcome embargo imposed by Gulf neighbours as deadline extended

Three to see: Manchester International Festival

From Joy Division-inspired works of art to Samson Young’s mythic tales of Chinese travellers

Lens on the Middle East: British Museum acquires photographs by artists documenting refugee crisis and Syrian civil war

Works were purchased with the help of the Art Fund as part of an ongoing collecting initiative

Modigliani’s nudes to be laid bare in Tate Modern show

Ten paintings of female models are included along with portraits of Picasso, Cocteau and Rivera

Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay to become one of the world’s largest public art parks

Ambitious 20-year, $50m redevelopment plan includes a raft of art projects, from large-scale sculptures to performance

Ei Arakawa sculpture vandalised at Sculpture Projects Münster

Stolen LED panel to be replaced by Japanese artist but work will be different

Will the real Modigliani please stand up?

Modigliani Project aims to throw new light on a market bedevilled by fakes and squabbles

Moca Taipei announces major LGBTQ show as Taiwan set to legalise gay marriage

New exhibition will feature work by artists such as Samson Young and Yan Xing