Hannah McGivern

Norman Foster to design Prado extension in historic palace

British architect's proposal beat those by Chipperfield and Koolhaas

Three to see: London

Cheer yourself up after Kiefer's Walhalla with Turk's delights in Vauxhall

State Hermitage Museum to stage Pompeii show in 2018

Collaboration between Russian and Italian museums marks "important moment in international relations" for ancient site

Picasso and the Mediterranean: 40 exhibitions will celebrate artist's ties to the region

Musée Picasso in Paris plans to lend works to venues in Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Cyprus and Morocco from next year

'Caravaggio' found in French attic unveiled in Milan

Exhibition at Pinacoteca di Brera invites scholars and public to judge controversial attribution of Judith Beheading Holofernes

Three to see: London

From a rare UK visit by Flaming June to the muted horrors of Paul Nash’s war paintings

Flaming June comes home to London

Victorian picture, on show at Leighton House Museum, rarely travels from collection in Puerto Rico

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Paris Photo Month on the move

The biennial festival is moving its dates from November to April

The lesser-known beneficiaries of the Louvre Abu Dhabi deal

Museums across France are making quick use of cash injections

Britain’s ‘art lending library’ finds four new homes

Arts Council Collection of nearly 8,000 works is planning 24 exhibitions with regional partner galleries

Heritage sites damaged as more earthquakes hit Italy

Disaster comes two months after 6.2-magnitude tremor destroyed town of Amatrice, killing 295 people

Pope’s summer residence Castel Gandolfo opens to the public

Vatican Museums will run tours of private apartments for first time

It only took 200 years: Prado stages its first show dedicated to a female artist

Exhibition of work by still-life pioneer Clara Peeters travels from her native Antwerp

New Art Gallery in Walsall at risk of closing after only 15 years

The £21m art space is latest regional museum under threat after closure of art gallery in Edinburgh's Inverleith House

The Modern art Stalin did not want Russians to see

Sergei Shchukin’s holdings, split up by the Soviets, are reunited at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris

Italian mafia trading weapons for Libyan artefacts plundered by Isil?

La Stampa newspaper claims that looted artefacts are being trafficked in Calabria

National Museum of Beirut opens basement for first time since civil war

Gallery of ancient funerary art restored with Italian support

Vuitton foundation's Russian loan show overshadowed as Putin cancels French trip

Russian and French presidents were due to visit exhibition of Modern masterpieces from Shchukin collection

Guerrilla Girls take Frieze to task

Fair security stopped the artist-activists as they handed out provocative stickers to visitors

Three to see: London

Picasso’s portraits, AbEx’s big guns and Parreno’s Turbine Hall commission are not to be missed during Frieze week&nbsp; <br>

American art goes beyond the US border

There’s no Trump-style wall at Frieze to divide artists from across the continent

National Portrait Gallery shows Picasso as a canny caricaturist

Artist’s keen eye and sharp wit are explored in major exhibition of portraits

Guerrilla Girls: going ape at the art world

The “feminist masked avengers” are targeting private museums in their continuing fight for greater diversity in cultural institutions

France to increase funding for museums and acquisitions in 2017 budget

The minister of culture, Audrey Azoulay, said she understands the “difficulties” museums face in the wake of terror attacks

Guerrilla Girls target super-wealthy collectors

Feminist US collective is in London this week at the Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Modern—and Frieze too

Top five London shows during Frieze week

Our pick of the city's must-see exhibitions, including Picasso, Pollock and two million pennies<br>

Cultural taskforce comes to the aid of quake-stricken Amatrice

Architect Renzo Piano urges Italian government to rebuild everything “as and where it was” and not to repeat the mistakes of L’Aquila