Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Prada Foundation moves into photography with new gallery in Milan’s oldest shopping arcade

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is where fashion brand opened its first store in 1913

New fine art and antiques fair to launch in Paris next November

Move draws criticism from organisers of Biennale des Antiquaires who are not keen on a competing fair

Tate St Ives announces Anne Barlow as new artistic director

Director of New York’s Art in General gallery will join the museum next spring when it opens after an 18-month closure<br>

Louvre Abu Dhabi announces Jenny Holzer and Giuseppe Penone commissions as institution edges closer to opening date

Huge installations will be dotted around the museum dome which will be flooded with light <br>

Top social-media jobs in the art world come with six-figure salary

Brush up on your Instagram skills and you could be earning over $100,000

Three to see: Paris

From Mexican Modernism to iPhones made of stone, via a Picasso and Giacometti duet

‘Afghan girl with green eyes' Sharbat Gula deported from Pakistan

Subject of famous National Geographic cover convicted of having fake ID papers<br> <br>

Poetry to honour victims on anniversary of Paris terrorist attacks

Institut du Monde Arabe will host a night of readings this weekend

Ewan McGregor, Douglas Gordon and Guggenheim director call for Edinburgh’s Inverleith House to be saved

More than 200 international artists, curators and culture figures protest closure of leading gallery<br> <br>

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Tate makes up for lost time with the help of Elton John

Singer and other collectors are helping photography come in from the cold

Shortlist announced to light up river Thames and 17 London bridges

Illuminated River design teams include artists such as Glenn Ligon, Angela Bulloch, Philippe Parreno and Leo Villareal<br>

Protestors storm stand at Contemporary Istanbul over sculpture depicting last Sultan

Censorship row at Turkish art fair as work by Ali Elmaci inflames local religious group<br> <br>

Chile’s first state-run contemporary art museum opens at former airport

National Centre for Contemporary Art Chile includes spaces for exhibitions, archives and conservation<br>

Louvre may safeguard artefacts from war-torn areas

French president François Hollande made proposal at opening of Louvre-Lens show on Mesopotamia

Photographer Steve McCurry speaks out against arrest of Sharbat Gula, the 'Afghan girl with green eyes'

Subject of famous National Geographic cover has been detained in Pakistan for allegedly using fraudulent ID documents<br>

British Museum marks 50th anniversary of Sexual Offences Act with LGBTQ show

Exhibition will shine a light on same-sex relationships using objects dating from antiquity to today<br>

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New York’s ICP reopens with survey of surveillance

Curator Charlotte Cotton reveals the ideas behind the radical show

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Ed Ruscha, the occasional photographer

Five decades after he documented every gas station from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City, US artist reveals that today he rarely takes photographs

Pompidou Brussels gets lacklustre greeting from locals

Some question the need for French franchise deal

Fight to save art history exam

More than 200 British academics express “grave concerns”

Centre Pompidou to stage show on the celebrated 20th-century dealer Paul Rosenberg

But another exhibition backed by Anne Sinclair, Rosenberg’s granddaughter, will tour instead to the Musée Maillol in Paris

French film star Alain Delon puts 12 Rembrandt Bugatti pieces up for auction

Christie's sale includes artist's signature animal bronzes, along with a marble sculpture shown at the Venice Biennale 100 years ago

US collectors Marlene and Spencer Hays donate major collection to Musée d’Orsay

Gift of turn-of-the-century masterpieces is the largest received from a foreign donor since 1945<br>

Fiac keeps calm and carries on despite low US turnout

European collectors are unfazed by economic uncertainty and are spending at the Grand Palais

Qataris take a spin on Dia Al-Azzawi’s carousel in Doha

Qatar Museums’ burgeoning public art programme also includes commissions by Richard Serra and Bill Viola<br>

UK professors condemn axing of art history A-level

More than 200 academics have written an open letter expressing their “grave concerns"<br>

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Fiac spills over into Petit Palais

Fair grows bigger with new performance art section and sculpture park