Hannah McGivern

National anthems, national myths, national crises: pick of the Venice Biennale pavilions

Official pavilions in the Giardini and the Arsenale that are already talking points, plus national presentations across Venice that are part of the collateral programme

Camden Arts Centre gets first new director in almost 30 years

British-born Martin Clark joins the London institution from Bergen Kunsthall

Dutch masterpieces owned by the Russian tsars to travel to Amsterdam

State Hermitage Museum is lending works, including six paintings by Rembrandt, to its Netherlands outpost

In pictures: St Petersburg’s Winter Palace ransacked after the Bolshevik Revolution

Images from the archives of the Hermitage museum are on show at London's Calvert 22 Foundation for one weekend only

Forced migration anchors a show in Italy

Personal items of shipwrecked migrants are included in a Milan exhibition

Mummy mania makes comeback in Liverpool

UK museum housing largest collection of ancient Egyptian artefacts outside the British Museum reopens after 18-month refurbishment

Art Basel's film programme taps into political zeitgeist

Films about Islamic State, North Korea and the Black Lives Matter movement among highlights of curator Maxa Zoller's line-up

In the heart of Europe, a new show reflects a diverse and globalised world

For its tenth anniversary, the Wiels contemporary art centre in Brussels presents a “blueprint” for how museums can address instability and migration

Pompeii will have 'regular maintenance at last'

Massimo Osanna, the man leading the ancient city's restoration, has turned the site around—but there is still work to do

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