Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

For-profit Parisian museum in receivership

Founder of the Pinacothèque hopes to restructure the institution

The Year Ahead: international biennials in 2016

The top art, design and architecture exhibitions around the world this year

The Year Ahead: museums opening in 2016

A look at the top institutions due to launch worldwide in the coming year

Fears of political crackdown in Cairo after Townhouse Gallery is closed

Officials inspect the established culture venue as the Arab Spring anniversary draws near

EU law rejects Getty Lysippos restitution verdict

Legal battle resumes for the Victorious Youth, which is housed at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles

Jorvik Viking Centre, a heritage attraction in York, is flooded and forced to close

<p> Artefacts have been moved off-site after 50 centimetres of water swamps the basement museum </p>

Art-world experts on their highs and lows of 2015—and their top tips for next year

Figures including Sarah McCrory and Serge Lasvignes reveal their highlights and biggest disappointments

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Jenny Holzer draws on Walt Whitman for Aids memorial

App will allow people to keep memories alive far beyond New York

Kenneth Griffin gives MoMA $40m—one of the New York museum's largest ever donations

The hedge-fund manager&nbsp;has also funded the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Whitney Museum

Susie Lingham steps down as director of the Singapore Art Museum after only two years

Management is in discussions with the UK-educated academic about her role in the 2016 Singapore Biennale <p> </p>

2015's best new museums

Prestigious institutions have sprung up around the world, from the Prada Foundation in Milan to the Broad in Los Angeles

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Germany could pay $3m to borrow Tehran’s Modern art

Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Mary Beard will front follow-up to influential 1960s BBC Civilisation series

Trio of presenters to&nbsp;tell&nbsp;the story of art on a global scale&nbsp;from Antiquity to today&nbsp;

Museum attendance in Paris plummets after terrorist attacks

Visitors to the Louvre down by 35% and Pompidou's attendance reduced by half in the weeks after the atrocities

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Human rights group raises fears over artists imprisoned in Tunisia

Five men have been sentenced under Law52, the anti-drugs legislation enforced by the country’s former president

Madrid’s Royal Collections settles dispute with Prado museum

Four Old Master paintings, including Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, to remain on view

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Swiss scholar Corinne Diserens to curate Taipei Biennial

Tenth edition will focus on the role of museums and institutional bureaucracy

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Venice Biennale’s Iraq Pavilion show to travel to Belgium and Brazil

Invisible Beauty exhibition features works by five Iraqi artists

Venice mayor threatens to sell a Chagall or Klimt

The cash-strapped city is considering selling "non-Venetian" works from its museums to pay for public services such as schools

Lina Bo Bardi's radical displays return to Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Modernist architect's glass easels, which make paintings seemingly float, were removed in 1990s<br> <br>

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Jack Persekian steps down as director of new Palestinian Museum

Institution is due to open near Jerusalem next year

Tunisian foundation backs research for artists’ projects

But eight recipients are not required to create a finished work

Hundreds protest oil sponsorship at Louvre during UN climate change conference

International activists arrested after spilling fake oil in the museum entrance

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Korean artists protest appointment of former Barcelona museum director due to censorship concerns

Bartomeu Marí—the new director of MMCA in Seoul—stepped down earlier this year over controversial sculpture exhibit

Buy a piece of the action

Artists who organised performances in Collins Park earlier this week, as part of Art Basel in Miami Beach’s Public sector, also work in other media and had pieces on sale at the fair

Galleries go off the beaten track

At the fair, dealers reveal the special appeal of St Barth, Somerset, Ibiza and Havana

Depart Foundation arrives in Miami

Organisation moves into South Beach hotel

Picasso, the master of experimentation

The prolific artist turned his hand to ceramics, photography, textiles and even poetry

The sculpture is mightier than the sword

French dealer Kamel Mennour highlights art’s role in developing humanity

François Pinault denies Paris museum plan

Reports say city’s mayor will help to find site