Hannah McGivern

An edifice worthy of the pharaohs rises next to the pyramids

The Grand Egyptian Museum aims to lure foreign visitors back to Cairo

Italian museums to donate ticket sales on Sunday to earthquake rescue efforts

Culture ministry meets with specialist art squad today to plan response after first emergency phase

Assisi basilica declared safe after fatal earthquake strikes central Italy

Monument to Saint Francis, decorated with frescoes by Cimabue and Giotto, is located at heart of earthquake-prone area

Times are a-changing for Italian museums

Deadline passes for ad seeking nine museum directors, but who will get the jobs?

Major Danish museum returns looted antiquities to Italy

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen will hand over around 500 items acquired in the 1970s

Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir

Artists mix fiction and reality in the ninth edition that reimagines the city’s past, present and future

Valeria Napoleone's all-female art collection hits the road

The London-based philanthropist partners with Museums Sheffield to show works by women artists

Floating Piers: how Italy learnt to love Christo

The artist’s golden walkways on Lake Iseo drew more than 1.2 million visitors in 16 days

Uffizi gets digital

The museum plans to digitise its entire collection of Greek and Roman sculptures

Peggy Guggenheim’s Picasso goes a whiter shade of pale

The artist's The Studio restored to its original brightness

How to keep an artist’s name alive

Galleries at Art Basel bring historic works that are fresh to the market as artists’ estates get proactive

Kunstmuseum stages sculptural revolution

Museum’s new building opens with ambitious survey ranging from Brancusi to Bruce Nauman

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Design Miami branches out in Basel by doubling its cutting-edge Design Curio section

Thought the fair was all about French Modernism? Director Rodman Primack wants you to think again

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Russian authorities thwart Moscow gallery's Design Miami/Basel plans

Cardboard cut-outs stand in for Soviet Art Deco pieces after temporary export licence is refused

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Buy Olafur Eliasson’s green light, help refugees

The lamps, designed by the Danish-Icelandic artist, will be sold at Art Basel

Slot machine mobster’s confiscated collection goes on show in Reggio

State-seized art includes paintings by Salvador Dalí, Lucio Fontana and Giorgio de Chirico

Six shows to see during Art Basel

Alleviate your fair-tigue with these exhibitions in and around the Swiss city

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Tobias Rehberger shows Basel the birds and the bees

Hives and cuckoo clocks adorn the artist’s art trail across the Swiss-German border

Courtauld Institute announces £50m revamp

Project includes renovation of gallery in Somerset House and a new online archive for more than one million images

The French connection: on Windows on the City at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The show of Modern masterpieces from the Guggenheim Museum in New York takes a pick-and-mix approach to art of Paris

Object Lessons: our pick of this week's photography auctions

Highlights going under the hammer in London at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips

Italy squanders €150m in EU grants

Sicily and Naples miss out on culture and tourism grants to protect crumbling cultural heritage sites due to chronic mismanagement

Seventeen paintings stolen from Verona museum retrieved in Ukraine

Works by Tintoretto, Mantegna and Rubens were hidden in plastic bags near the Moldovan border