Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections—from a compendium of African American history to the vast archive of an expelled Surrealist

After a grant enabled conservation on a much-loved painting, researchers at the National Gallery of Ireland are learning more about the artist’s technique

His company Safariland has been criticised for manufacturing tear gas canisters that have been used on asylum seekers along the US-Mexico border

The intensely private artist won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Site-specific works by artists such as Michael Rakowitz and Holly Hendry are planned as part of the Creative Coast initiative led by Turner Contemporary and Visit Kent

State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide—from Lee Krasner's record-setting painting to a Hogarth conversation piece

Turkish non-profit contemporary art space Arter is relocating to a state-of-the-art exhibition space in Dolapdere district

Artist Melissa McGill teams up with Venetian sailors to celebrate maritime tradition in face of mass tourism and climate change

Critics say the move by Italy's populist coalition government will compromise the autonomy of museums

From the towering ambitions of a young Picasso to Rebecca Horn's Body Fantasies

The system of dividends is a way to address the "immense amounts of unpaid or underpaid labour" that support the art world, she says

Curator Gianni Jetzer shares the highlights of his eighth—and final— edition

The duo explain why their Venice Biennale presentation Moving Backwards is actually a step forward

Sixty dancers will enact "performative environment" on the Messeplatz in Basel every day this week

The French collector tells us about her new foundation of Aboriginal art and why she resists the collecting mentality

The former nightclub 'doorman' is now on display at the Museum of Norwich.

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation

As Fratelli Alinari vacates its Italian headquarters, there are hopes that Tuscan government will rescue the historic collection

From a major survey of Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner at the Barbican, to rooftop sculptures at Bold Tendencies in Peckham

From the largest Leonardo da Vinci show in half a century, at the Queen's Gallery, to the first retrospective of Luchita Hurtado at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery

An indoor beach, Mongolian throat singing and ceramic vaginas—where to go beyond the Arsenale and Giardini

Initiative aims to boost Russian expertise in rapidly developing field of preserving contemporary art

The former shipyards house many of the star national displays this year, here are some of the best

From an aquatic odyssey to a guerrilla dance performance, here are the exhibitions we loved at the heart of the big event

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Delacroix’s sketchbooks to a pair of Brexit vases

The drawing, believed to be one of only two contemporary images of the artist, will go on show for the first time at the Queen’s Gallery in London

Conservators, curators, academics, architects and engineers denounce French president's "political calendar"

Complex conservation issues mean it could easily take a decade or more to rebuild the Medieval cathedral