Victoria Stapley-Brown

More than 500 cultural objects returned to Ecuador

Ancient artefacts and colonial-era art repatriated from Argentina and Spain

Little Sun king Olafur Eliasson to show at Versailles this spring

The Danish-Icelandic artist says he plans to make use of water and light in his presentation at the French palace

Unterlinden Museum, home of the Isenheim Altarpiece, officially reopened

The €44m renovation and expansion will be fully completed this spring

Jack Shainman Gallery thinks inside the grid

Group show to present work by El Anatsui, Bernd and Hilla Becher and Maya Lin

A battle won but a war lost: Red Horse at the Cantor Arts Center

Drawings of the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Minneconjou Lakota Sioux warrior are on view in California

How do you clean a masterpiece? Louvre to restore Leonardo da Vinci’s St John the Baptist

The museum is opting for total transparency ahead of a sensitive conservation project

Suspected arson at Fontainebleau church

Historic furnishings damaged and around a dozen objects missing or destroyed

Two detained in Turkey over attempted sale of painting, claimed to be lost work by Van Dyck

The sellers told undercover police that they had bought the work from a gang in Georgia

Swap shop: the stories behind six objects in Pia Camil’s New Museum installation

Find out why visitors brought a glass chicken, a Mardi Gras wig, a vintage hat, a diary page, a quilt and a package of seaweed for the artist’s first solo show

A return to the object: Biennale de Montréal announces theme for 2016 edition

While the 2014 event centred on socially engaged work, this year’s exhibition will look at aesthetics and materiality

New contemporary art centre in Jamaica to open with Basquiat show

Art adviser Rachael Barrett plans network of spaces across the Caribbean

Best satellite fairs orbiting Art Basel in Miami Beach

Forget the beach, this year's parallel events include a new fair and plenty of art that won't break the bank

Lyons light festival cancelled in wake of Paris attacks

Candlelight ceremony will continue in honour of terror victims

Milwaukee Art Museum pulls off expansion from depths of slump

Mould flourished, floors buckled and ceilings leaked in the two buildings that housed the museum's permanent collection when it announced $34m renovation in 2009 at the height of the recession

Rodin in a new light

Renovated Paris museum reopens with emphasis on sculptor's creative process

Happy 75th anniversary Hildegard Bachert

The co-director of Galerie St Etienne in New York got her foot in the door by promising English lessons to its founder Otto Kallir

Hiker discovers 1,200-year-old Viking sword in Norway

Archaeologist says climate change could result in more ancient objects resurfacing in the far North

Pace Gallery celebrates Rauschenberg’s birthday with show of rarely seen works

Late series pieces include inkjet dye and pigment transfers on polylaminate, paper and fabric, as well as frescoes

Detroit art space opens with punchy pop of colour

Collector Gary Wasserman looks to the Motor City’s post-bankruptcy future with new interdisciplinary venue

Celebrating the civilisations Isil seeks to destroy

Detroit Institute of Arts unveils new gallery devoted to the Ancient Middle East

First hearings held in the Hague over alleged cultural heritage war crimes

Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi appeared at the International Criminal Court this week in connection to 2012 attacks on Timbuktu