Victoria Stapley-Brown

Fake ticket scheme uncovered at Versailles

Five seasonal workers have been charged with fraud

Three to see: New York

From a weird and wild ride through past presidential elections, to the calming canvases of Agnes Martin

New York culture festival celebrates Antigone, an ancient heroine as relevant as ever

A new work by Carrie Mae Weems kicks off the Onassis Foundation’s four-day event

The Caravaggio work at the centre of the Wildenstein money-laundering trial

Painting's movements show the complicated issues around the estate of Daniel Wildenstein

Musée Carnavalet closed until at least 2019 for €43m restoration

The museum of Paris’s history will send some of its collection abroad

Race across the city: Art in Odd Places festival returns to New York’s 14th Street

The 2016 edition of the open-air event will look at issues of race through performances, installation and film projections

Three to see: New York

From the Holy Wars to the culture wars to a conceptual art crusade

France to increase funding for museums and acquisitions in 2017 budget

The minister of culture, Audrey Azoulay, said she understands the “difficulties” museums face in the wake of terror attacks

Three to see: New York

From a man cave to a coral reef, we've got you covered

Centre Pompidou to open museum in Brussels in former Citroën building

The project is a partnership with the Brussels-Capital Region, which has been planning a Modern and contemporary art centre for years

Creative Time goes to Washington

The New York-based non-profit's summit in the capital focuses largely on the grassroots movement

Elmgreen and Dragset to install ‘tiny little lonely booth’ in the Grand Palais

The artist pair give a one-day pop-up preview of their dealer Emmanuel Perrotin’s Fiac booth, ahead of their Flag Art Foundation show in New York

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Introducing the MacArthur Foundation’s 'geniuses' of 2016

Recipients of the $625,000 grant include a video artist, a graphic novelist, a sculptor, an art book writer, an art historian and jewellery maker

Berlin’s museums use culture as a means of integration for refugees

In the Multaka project, refugees lead guided museum tours for others displaced from Syria and Iraq

Neolithic female statuette from 8000-5500 BC found in Turkey

Figurine discovered in southern Anatolia was most likely a ritual object

Royal British Columbia Museum to establish department for repatriation of First Nation cultural heritage

The Canadian province has committed $2m to the project, which gives indigenous groups the lead

Three to see: New York

From a photographer in exile, to a painter changing his stripes

R4 'art city' on Paris’s Île Seguin finds new financial backer

The real estate group Emerige has taken over the project as its chief investor Yves Bouvier faces continuing legal troubles

What happens when a colourblind artist can finally see the full spectrum?

Daniel Arsham has expanded his palette thanks to high-tech “sunglasses” and is showing richly hued works for the first time at New York’s Perrotin gallery

Ninth-century mosque destroyed by airstrike in Yemen

Unesco’s director-general Irina Bokova has strongly condemned the attack

Three to see: New York

From a New York Ab-Ex anniversary to Bruce Nauman striking a sculptural pose

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Sentences handed down in high-profile case over Drouot thefts

Thirty-eight individuals were convicted and the art handler’s union was dissolved

Three to see: New York

From a nearly-finished show of unfinished works, to a new look at an Old Master

Billionaires to build Chelsea home for coveted collection

Renaissance bronzes will take pride of place in Tom and Janine Hill’s private museum

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Anselm Kiefer’s studio robbed of 12 tonnes of raw marble and €1.3m lead sculpture

Two women apprehended while picking up scraps from the damaged work have been released

Pedro Reyes’s haunted house taps into the scary side of American politics

The artist calls the Creative Time project in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park “political catharsis”

Wanted: young artists to join the Antarctic Biennale

The art-making expedition will kick off its first edition in March 2017