Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Sixth Duke of Westminster leaves one of the most important Old Master collections in the UK

Many of the works owned by Gerald Grosvenor, who has died aged 64, have been loaned over the years to a small museum near the family seat in Chester <br>

UK Brexit vote gives the Ruhrtriennale arts festival extra edge

Director Johan Simons says that the programme reflects how “Europe is questioning itself”<br>

London’s V&A buys rare Hans Coper bird bowl

1950s ceramic, which was at risk of being exported from the UK, purchased in memory of the late writer Annabel Freyberg<br> <br>

Rupertinum revamp puts Salzburg on the contemporary art map

Franz West lounge and Generali Foundation collection among highlights of refurbished 17th-century site <br>

Contemporary African art to take centre stage at Fondation Louis Vuitton

Three major shows are planned for Paris museum next year, including one featuring collection of Jean Pigozzi

Bill Viola to unveil second work in St Paul’s Cathedral

New multi-screen video installation depicting the Virgin Mary, along with the companion Martyrs work, cost £2.5m to make and install

Late French film director Claude Berri’s vast, eclectic collection to hit the block in Paris

Several sales scheduled at Christie’s, including an auction of key contemporary works during the Fiac fair

Reading Prison and its most famous inmate inspire major new project

Patti Smith, Steve McQueen and Marlene Dumas, among others, respond to Oscar Wilde and the jail's architecture and history

Exhibition on Greek island of Samos offers new perspectives on the refugee crisis

Works transcend media representations of the humanitarian disaster, says curator Katerina Gregos

Three to see: London

From Eggleston's portraits of America to a hot Latin summer south of the river

French luxury goods billionaire François Pinault makes German debut

His collection will be shown at Museum Folkwang, with an entire gallery dedicated to Cindy Sherman

Suhanya Raffel appointed executive director of Hong Kong's M+ museum

Sydney-based curator will be instrumental in building the collection and acquiring key art, design and architecture works

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