Hannah McGivern

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

Tate Modern to stage its first Picasso show—focusing on just a single year

Exhibition in 2018 will include The Dream that casino titan Steve Wynn accidentally put an elbow through

‘Exemplary’ Rialto Bridge restoration project finishes on time

Work on La Serenissima's oldest bridge is done, but official unveiling will take place during the Venice Biennale

Louvre attendance falls as tourists stay away from Paris

In wake of terrorist attacks the number of visitors drops to 7.3 million<br>

Florence acts to ensure Michelangelo's David remains sure-footed after recent earthquakes

Experts assess seismic stability of Galleria dell’Accademia and the rest of the city's treasures

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

Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac tracks African roots and African routes in its upcoming exhibition

Will Les Demoiselles d’Avignon return to Paris?

Vuitton museum to show Modern masterpieces from MoMA

Gilbert collection returns to the V&A with one notable absence

Curators to bring collector's waxwork out of storage in 2018

Three to see: London

From Malick Sidibé’s black-and-white photos of Bamako’s youth culture to Ken Price’s bright and colourful ceramics <br> <br>

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Stolen Old Master paintings head back to Verona

Works by Tintoretto, Mantegna and Rubens were discovered in Ukraine

Three to see: New York

From opulent ancien régime metalwork to Dubuffet's elegant drawings

Three to see: London

From Rodin’s twirling dancers to Mapplethorpe’s still-lifes

Palmyra antiquities seized at Geneva Free Port

Looted artefacts were deposited at the tax-free warehouses between 2009 and 2010

Three to see: London

Contemplate Elton John’s radical eye and pet Rauschenberg’s goat before sailing upstream into Rachel Maclean’s bubble-gum universe

Guggenheim Helsinki plans rejected by city council

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation says the decision effectively brings the project to a close

After 40 years, the world gets a glimpse of Iran's Modern treasures

Works assembled by the ousted shah and later hidden in a basement will travel to Berlin and Rome

Museo del Prado’s director Miguel Zugaza steps down after 15 years

Madrid museum’s great moderniser will return to former position at helm of Bilbao Fine Arts Museum<br> <br>