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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Josephine Pryde, Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton and Helen Marten are in the running for prestigious award

Co-founder of kinetic and optical art collective Grav worked with neon for the past six decades

Sites including Pompeii, Paestum and the earthquake-stricken city of L’Aquila get major cash injection

Luxury brand recruits curators to re-energise and expand corporate collection

Our pick of this week’s auction highlights

Mural pays tribute to city through more than 80 figures from Roman mythology to the present

Paintings were confiscated by Fascist government then seized by German occupying forces

The London museum is hosting an underwear exhibition that is anything but pants

But worn-down inscription could prove difficult to decipher

Video installation will re-enact the death scenes of tragic heroines once performed by opera diva Maria Callas