Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Travel ban lifted on leading Iranian artist

Parviz Tanavoli gets his passport back, and leaves for Vancouver after officials drop charges against him

Seventeen Le Corbusier buildings named World Heritage Sites by Unesco

The stark Modernist structures are on the conservation list along with other sites in the Caribbean, India and Brazil

Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde works are not harmful after all

Author retracts report claiming works shown at Tate Modern were a risk

Agustín Arteaga appointed new director of the Dallas Museum of Art

The Mexican scholar, who replaces Maxwell Anderson, has worked closely with many major international institutions

Royal Academy to show avant-garde art Stalin suppressed

Malevich's pioneering abstracts among works reunited from landmark show of 1932

Fairsnews

Fiac expands with a move into the historic Petit Palais opposite

The leading Paris fair is launching two new spaces after its satellite Officielle event is dropped

German collectors turn their Düsseldorf home into an art gallery

Rosi and Rudolf Dahmen have converted a squash centre into a complex with an exhibition space and artist studios

New triennial in Aarhus to include outdoor art along four kilometre-coastline

The Danish city—European Capital of Culture 2017—will host the two-part exhibition focusing on man and nature

Leading Iranian artist accused by authorities of disturbing the peace

Parviz Tanavoli faces allegations in Tehran court as part of government clampdown

Jeffrey Deitch makes SoHo comeback

Artists Eddie Peake and Walter Robinson will inaugurate the dealer’s Wooster Street space this autumn

London dealer Timothy Taylor to launch New York gallery

The gallerist’s new space, which opens this autumn, fills the ground floor of a Chelsea townhouse

New galleries at National Museum of Scotland present thousands of exhibits

Napoleon’s sister, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Dolly the Sheep feature in the art and science displays

Abbas Kiarostami: film-maker and photographer extraordinaire

The late Iranian artist considered “still pictures” the perfect, poetic counterpart to moving images

The Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, Islam’s second holiest site, attacked

Seventh-century complex in Saudi Arabia is one of three locations targeted by terrorists<br>

Leading Iranian artist banned from travelling to London

Parviz Tanavoli, Pop art pioneer, was stopped at Tehran airport this weekend

Silent soldiers across the UK mark Battle of the Somme in poignant live art piece

Jeremy Deller organised the countrywide performance made up of more than 1,400 volunteers

Manifesta gets down to business

Artists and locals join forces for nomadic biennial now open in Zurich

French antiques dealers up in arms over move to ban elephant ivory sales

Art market professionals send an open letter to the government warning that a complete tusk ban would foster a black market

Brexit vote triggers shock and dismay

Fears for London art market amid political and economic uncertainty after UK votes to leave EU

German collector Thomas Borgmann bolsters Stedelijk Museum's contemporary art collection with 600-strong donation

Dutch institution’s holdings have expanded to include works by Wolfgang Tillmans and Cosima von Bonin

King’s Cross Project brings in two new curators

Tamsin Dillon and Rebecca Heald will commission works for the regenerated London station and surrounding area

UK Parliament’s soot and secrets preserved in latex

Jorge Otero-Pailos’s mirror image of a wall in Westminster Hall resonates after the Brexit vote

Isil rampage continues with destruction of the Temple of Nabu in northern Iraq

Video footage shot by the militant group shows explosives detonated at the entrance arch

Old and new: ancient objects paired with contemporary commissions for Venice Biennale’s 2017 Iraqi pavilion

Presented by the Baghdad based Ruya Foundation, the project will span the history of artistic production in the region

Hermitage treasures come to Paris for the next Biennale des Antiquaires

The high-profile exhibition is a feature of the revamped fair which will now be held annually

Marie Lavandier appointed new director of Louvre-Lens

The former head of Nice museums will run the northern satellite branch on a five-year contract