The potato head of Palencia: defaced Spanish statue latest victim of botched restoration
Conservation professionals have questioned why Spain's heritage is continually handed over to those with no formal training
Twitter explodes with debate around long-awaited statue of feminist trailblazer Mary Wollstonecraft
Sculpture by Maggi Hambling is the result of a decade-long campaign to honour the 18th-century women's rights advocate
Hackers target oldest bible and Vatican’s other priceless treasures in online attacks
The Apostolic Library has partnered with a cyber defence firm to prevent further attempts to steal and manipulate its digital collection
Three outdoor exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From empathetic documentary photography in King's Cross to Cauleen Smith's Covid Diary broadcast at Piccadilly Circus Lights
And now we wait? Seven works that perfectly depict the US election limbo
The Trump-Biden race is turning into a protracted nail-biter, so we’re finding some solace in art
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Turner’s take on the speed and horrors of the modern world to Ann Veronica Janssen’s playful, light-bending sculptures
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From a chilling show on Arctic culture to Polly Morgan's gorgeously repellent serpentine sculptures
An AI bot has figured out how to draw like Banksy. And it's uncanny
GANksy aims to produce images that bear resemblance to works by the UK's most famous street artist
Indian museum hopes to reconcile bitter saga of sectarian conflict near disputed holy site
A planned mosque and cultural centre will celebrate the syncretic culture of Hinduism and Islam in the northern city of Ayodhya
Madrid's Prado museum accused of misogyny in open letter after misattributing work to female artist
Uninvited Guests exhibition has "been done from a misogynistic point of view and still projects the misogyny of the 19th century,” says one signatory
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Liu Xiaodong's portraits of wealthy Chinese immigrants to the Royal Academy's delayed Summer show
Chinese interference derails Genghis Khan exhibition in France
Beijing authorities attempted to censor show's narrative amid a hardening of Chinese Communist Party's stance towards Mongol minority
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the National Gallery's long-awaited Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition to Damien Hirst's career-spanning show at his own Newport Street Gallery
‘We wanted to have sex all the time’: first major survey of Sunil Gupta—photographer of gay Indian life—opens in London
The Photographers' Gallery retrospective explores five decades of the long-overlooked artist's career—from cruising on street corners to Aids activism
Three exhibitions to see in Berlin this weekend
From Olafur Eliasson's perception-altering lights to Émilie Pitoiset's surveillance capitalism dance marathon
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From transgressive Tantra at the British Museum to a series of artistic interventions in Brent's libraries
V.S. Gaitonde's £3.4m record-breaking painting leads strong South Asian sales season
Glut of collections have come to auction this month, with strong results for lesser-known Indian Modernists broadening a narrow market
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Jadé Fadojutimi's purposeful paintings at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to Trevor Paglen's floral AI animations at Pace
'The past is being weaponised': Nalini Malani's anti-fascist animations come to the Whitechapel Gallery
Eighty-eight of the Indian artist’s animated iPad drawings will be projected across the gallery's walls for her first UK solo show
Indian museum celebrating Muslim dynasty renamed after Hindu king
The museum, located in Agra, will show art, jewellery and fashion of the Mughal Empire
Lisson, Sadie Coles HQ and Stephen Friedman to open (temporarily) on London's Cork Street during Frieze week
In lieu of an October fair, the blue-chip galleries will congregate around the Mayfair street during what would—under normal circumstances—be the London art market's busiest month
Street art by ‘India’s Banksy’ defaced by right-wing youth group in Mumbai
Tyler Street Artist had painted the names of pro-government public figures onto a road for a collaborative public shaming project
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Danh Vo's millennia-spanning pastoral show at White Cube to Abbas Zahedi's rosewater sprinkler system at South London Gallery
Bangladeshi government officials storm protest performance in Dhaka
Organised by Drik Gallery, the event at Dhaka University aimed to highlight the extrajudicial killing of Bangladeshi civilians by government forces
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Raisa Kabir's transcontinental textiles to Toyin Ojih Odutola's epic cycle of queer, Black drawings
Three exhibitions to see in New York, London and online this weekend
From Jacob Lawrence's Struggle series at the Met to Edmund de Waal's library of exiled authors at the British Museum
Breonna Taylor—fatally shot by Kentucky police—immortalised by Amy Sherald for Vanity Fair front cover
Painter who famously depicted Michelle Obama honours 26-year-old for magazine's September issue
Three exhibitions to see in London, New York and online this weekend
From Public Gallery's Spitalfields debut to Keegan Monaghan at James Fuentes
A brush with... Chantal Joffe
An in-depth podcast conversation on the painter’s big influences, from Chaim Soutine to Anne Sexton
World's biggest canvas painting—the size of two football fields—to be auctioned in Dubai for charity
The record-breaking work by the Dubai-based British artist Sacha Jafri will be sold to promote "global digital equality"