Hannah McGivern

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

Stolen Van Gogh paintings recovered by Italian anti-mafia police

Works were taken from Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002

Three to see: London

From the strange set-pieces of Bedwyr Williams to a festival of the city’s emerging art scene, via luxurious Medieval needlework<br> <br>

What does an emotion look like? London’s National Portrait Gallery gets abstract with Howard Hodgkin show

The museum will also host a show drawing parallels between the self-portraits of Claude Cahun and Gillian Wearing

Wim Pijbes quits as director of just-opened Museum Voorlinden

Former Rijksmuseum boss packs in “dream job” three weeks after private museum opens its doors

Wim Pijbes on why he left the Rijksmuseum for a ‘start-up’

The director of the Netherlands’ newest private museum, Museum Voorlinden, tells us about his 'dream job'

Contemporary art returns to new-look Musée Maillol

Museum dedicated to the memory of French sculptor Aristide Maillol reopens with an exhibition of French artist Ben

Galleries chip in to bring contemporary art to Florence

Dealers make shows of work by Koons, Currin and Gormley possible