Hannah McGivern

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

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

Fairsnews

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

Fairsnews

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

Fairsnews

Buy Olafur Eliasson’s green light, help refugees

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