Victoria Stapley-Brown

Row in Rome over proposed plan to fence-off Spanish Steps

Opponents criticise anti-vandalism measures to seal off Roman staircase at night and to ban seating—and snacking—on it

New York to get its own Fourth Plinth competition on the High Line

Twelve artists have been shortlisted for the first two commissions for large-scale public art on the elevated park

Prizesnews

Three lucky artists selected to live and work in Alexander Calder’s Loire Valley studio

Abbas Akhavan, Rochelle Goldberg and Eva Kot’átková to “continue in Calder’s legacy” through three-month residencies

French government places export bar on €15m Leonardo da Vinci drawing

State has 30 months to buy newly discovered work hailed as a “national treasure”<br> <br>

Sex changes: ancient Egypt and contemporary feminism at the Brooklyn Museum

Recent research explains why women masqueraded as men on their coffins

Three to see: New York

From feminist art to the last years of Max Beckmann

Heart-pounding discovery of rare Leonardo da Vinci drawing

The double-sided work, valued at €15m, depicts Saint Sebastian on its front and optical studies by the Old Master on the reverse

Three to see: New York

From the weight of history to light-footed ballerinas

‘Humanity uprooted’: Noguchi Museum marks 75th anniversary of Japanese American internment

Timely show traces the lasting impact on the artist’s work of voluntary wartime relocation to Arizona detention camp

Remember Pearl Harbor: exhibition commemorates 75th anniversary of attack

Massachusetts museum gives multiple perspective on the “date which will live in infamy”

Double Dutch at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum

Institution presents parallel exhibitions of Modern Dutch design and site-specific works by the Dutch artist Christie van der Haak

Julio Le Parc's American moment

Miami gives the octogenarian pioneer of kinetic art his first US retrospective

Vizcaya, then and now

Villa Vizcaya, Miami’s Italianate estate and gardens, celebrates its 100th birthday with a series of contemporary commissions

Forgery scandal surrounding Lee Ufan’s work grows in Korea with three arrests

The artist himself has denied that the works investigated by police are fakes

High Line curator Cecilia Alemani to present pared-down Italian pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

The curator has chosen to show works by three artists: Roberto Cuoghi, Adelita Husni-Bey and Giorgio Andreotta Calò

Central America’s first Holocaust museum to open in Guatemala

The building is already hosting temporary exhibitions, while the permanent display will focus on mass murders by shooting in Eastern Europe

Clark Art Institute reopens its ‘beating heart’, the Manton Research Center

The re-worked building includes the museum’s first gallery for works on paper

Three to see: New York

From the French Baroque to contemporary Christian art

Leonardo Da Vinci’s St John the Baptist back on view at the Louvre after a thorough—but careful—cleaning

The ten-month project faced “major media pressure” because of earlier restorations of the artist’s work at the museum

My friend Mark Rothko: Pace Gallery’s Arne Glimcher explains the allure of the artist’s dark work

A major non-selling loan exhibition at the New York gallery is five years in the planning

Reportnews

Our pick of Paris’s photography centres

The French capital is home to many institutions dedicated to the medium

For SoHo’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, expansion is just the first step

The museum is doubling its space at its current location on Wooster Street—but a bigger move is in the pipeline

Three to see: New York

Explore art history with Kerry James Marshall and bask in the pure positivity of Mark Leceky

Villa Flora collection finds new home at Kunstmuseum Bern

Around 100 works by artists like Van Gogh, Matisse, Manet, Cézanne, Renoir and Giacometti amassed by Hedy and Arthur Hahnloser-Bühler

Anicka Yi awarded 2016 Hugo Boss Prize

Jury for prize, given by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, admired how experiments in artist’s work “push the limits of perceptual experience in the ‘visual’ arts”

Three to see: New York

From Charlotte Brontë’s letters to Robert Morris's plywood sculptures, we've got you covered on what to see in the city and beyond

Fairsnews

Nada New York moves to Armory week in March

The New Art Dealers Alliance fair has been held in May during Frieze New York since it launched in 2012

Woman breaks nasty nearly-nude Hillary statue

She was acting as a “private citizen who was personally offended” says her employer, the National Museum of the American Indian

Lawnews

Prosecutor recommends four-year prison sentence and €250m fine for Guy Wildenstein in Paris trial

Lawyers for art dealing dynasty to present their defence next week in high-profile tax fraud and money laundering case