Hannah McGivern

Triennale di Milano: art effects empathy as forced migration anchors show

The Restless Earth explores the divisive subject currently preoccupying global media

From Lawrence of Arabia’s robes to Napoleon’s horse: National Army Museum reopens in London

Three-year refurbishment has transformed museum's brutalist 1960s building, which now includes five new thematic galleries

Curators cautiously venture into virtual reality

Museums are following in the footsteps of artists such as Jordan Wolfson and Jon Rafman

Fairsnews

In pictures: Encounters at Art Basel in Hong Kong

Curator Alexie Glass-Kantor gives us a tour of the fair's section for large-scale sculptures and installations

Danish collective SUPERFLEX will take over Tate Modern's Turbine Hall

Artists' plans for prestigious Hyundai Commission have not yet been revealed

Old Master exhibitions not to miss in 2017

Coming to a museum near you: mentors, medals and monarchs… oh my!

Fairsnews

Female Old Masters finally get their day in the sun

Museum exhibitions and acquisitions reveal a renewed interest in the great female artists of the past

Foundation uses crowdfunding to raise $65,000 to restore work by female Old Master

The Last Supper scene by the 16th-century nun Plautilla Nelli is due to go on show in 2018

Italian Renaissance specialist Miguel Falomir chosen to head up Prado

Unanimous vote by selection committee still needs approval from trustees and Spanish government

Francis Kéré becomes first African architect to win Serpentine Pavilion commission

Architect’s tree-like wooden structure takes inspiration from the meeting-place of choice in villages throughout Africa

Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi returns to Uffizi after restoration

Florence museum’s 2017 programme also includes exhibition tracing Eisenstein's interest in Renaissance art

Theftsnews

Stolen Guercino painting found in Casablanca

Altarpiece was taken from church in Modena, Italy, in 2014

Call for Italy’s quake-stricken works to return home for treatment

Mayors demand that salvaged works of art be restored locally

The Italian job(s): Colosseum boss wanted

Head needed for Rome's central archaeological area

Pride and prejudice: museums celebrate the decriminalisation of homosexuality

Institutions across England plan shows to mark 50 years since passage of landmark Sexual Offences Act

Bamiyan Cultural Centre gets under way

Building at Unesco World Heritage site in Afghanistan, where the Taliban destroyed the monumental ancient Buddhas, due to open to the public in summer 2018

Uffizi to show more female artists

Florence museum’s director expands the canon—with a little help from the Guerrilla Girls

Paris museums count cost of increased security after attacks

Louvre, Versailles and Musée d’Orsay lose millions as visitors stay away from tourist magnets—but the dip in attendance has an upside

Philip Guston gets first Venice museum show

Accademia exhibition will open for this year's Venice Biennale, more than 50 years after the artist represented the US

Five millennia of African art and history go on show in Paris

Curators hope to throw visitors to this exhibition about trade routes in Africa “off course”

Campaign launched to save Vincent van Gogh’s grave

French town of Auvers-sur-Oise is also fundraising to repair church that inspired 1890 painting