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Taste, sound, smell: have curators gone too far?

Two galleries recently staged shows that engaged other senses as well as vision. Our editor and a technology writer disagree on their merits

France and The Netherlands to share ownership of Rembrandt portraits

Masterpieces will be exhibited together, alternating between the Rijksmuseum and the Louvre

Visitors down 35% as National Gallery strike continues

Half the museum's rooms have been closed since August

Orhan Pamuk’s novel-inspired museum to get London edition

Works housed at the Museum of Innocence will go on show at Somerset House next year

Video art coming to a UK museum near you

The Art Fund teams up with London's Thomas Dane Gallery to help cash-strapped public collections buy new media works

Dia abandons previous plans for new building in Chelsea

In an exclusive interview, Jessica Morgan tells us how she aims to use the foundation’s existing Manhattan real estate and bring “equilibrium” to all of the institution's spaces

First look at Damien Hirst’s much anticipated Vauxhall gallery space

John Hoyland’s "bold" canvases shine at Newport Street Gallery critics preview, but YBA is a no-show

British Museum trustees look to Dresden to find new director

German-born Hartwig Fischer’s formal appointment expected by British Prime Minister

Institut du Monde Arabe brings Scheherazade’s 1,001 nights to northern France

The Tourcoing outpost of the Parisian museum for Arabian culture due to move to historic building in city centre

Competition to design Qatar’s Art Mill heats up

Established names as well as young designers among the 26 firms chosen for longlist

Musée d’Orsay closed today due to a strike, interrupting the opening of prostitution show

A staff meeting is planned early Wednesday to decide whether to continue the labour protest

Tate Modern to unveil new extension in June 2016

Fundraising challenges and complexity of building design delayed completion by four years

Performers tell museums to get their act together on fees

Institutions are spending millions on spaces for performance but some curators are “surprised they have to pay live art performers at all”

Getty becomes first museum to restitute Armenian art removed during genocide

The institution will get to keep the brilliantly illuminated gospel pages in its collection after legal settlement

The Broad: a first look

Highly anticipated LA museum opens this weekend with star works from its collection, including Kusama's Infinity Room and ten pieces by Jeff Koons

Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening

Every gallery will be open to the public for the first time in 50 years

Scottish museum buys 17th-century Le Marchand ivories

Huguenot carver came to Edinburgh after facing persecution in his native France

British Museum signs deal to send touring shows to Spain

A €2m partnership with foundation of savings bank includes exhibitions on ancient Greece and Egypt

Four years on and Norway is still divided on massacre memorial

Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg's monument, which calls for a slice of the Sørbråten peninsula to be cut out like “an open wound”, was due for completion in July