Hannah McGivern

Prizesnews

Female artists—and sculpture—dominate Turner Prize shortlist

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

French artist François Morellet has died aged 90

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

Italy spends €1bn in historic boost for cultural heritage

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

Montblanc steps up its art patronage

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

William Kentridge unveils 550-metre frieze along Rome's River Tiber

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

Italy retrieves three works looted from Tuscan villa by the Nazis

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

Show us your knickers Victoria (& Albert)

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

Marina Abramovic 'dreams’ of premiering Seven Deaths film at the Royal Academy

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

Leading architect Zaha Hadid dies aged 65

Iraqi-born designer was the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize

Marina Abramovic to get first China show

Shanghai's Power Station of Art to provide stage for performance artist

From pill-popping birds to awkward mannequins: Encounters at Art Basel Hong Kong

Curator Alexie Glass-Kantor picks six works from her section dedicated to large-scale projects

Project to preserve Venice’s Jewish heritage, 500 years after the first ghetto was created

The €8.5m campaign is backed by the fashion designer Diane von Fürstenburg among others

Countdown to Art Basel in Hong Kong

Heading to the fair? You'll find more historical work by Asian artists, more Western galleries, plus a "waterfall" of numbers as high as a skyscraper

Private museum pops up to fill a gap in Brussels

A former brewery on a canal is being refurbished to house a new non-profit contemporary art space

Theftsnews

Italian police arrest 13 over €15m Verona museum theft

Suspects include museum’s security guard whose car was used as getaway vehicle

How to be a performance artist like Marina Abramovic

Athens project trains Greek artists and the public in the “Abramovic Method”

Fairsnews

Experts reveal the must-haves in their fields

Authorities in eight specialist areas explain what guides the market—and all the latest trends.

People of Geneva say ‘non’ to museum extension designed by Jean Nouvel

The proposal for the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is sent back to the drawing board after 54% vote against it<br>