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Damien Hirst gives Dan Colen his first major solo show in London 

Bubble gum, trash and photorealist paintings to go on show at Newport Street Gallery in October

Hard Brexit could damage UK’s world-class museums

Leading directors concerned about uncertain status of colleagues who are EU nationals

Former Louvre director Pierre Rosenberg to donate Old Masters collection to French town

New centre in Les Andelys will house holdings, which include numerous works by Nicolas Poussin

Iñárritu's VR project brings terrifying experiences of migrants and refugees to life

Oscar-winning director, whose work opens at Milan's Fondazione Prada this week, says it's reductive to call it anti-Trump

Museums in the US and Canada show their Pride in June

Institutions are celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month with exhibitions and events

Art Basel files first lawsuit in the US—and it’s against Adidas

Art fair says the sportswear company infringed trademark with trainers distributed during Art Basel Miami Beach

Aros Triennial unveils swathe of new commissions along five kilometres of Danish coastline

Works in the inaugural exhibition include an “anger room” and a safe haven for bees

Liverpool celebrates The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album with a little help from artist friends

Among the 13 new commissions, Judy Chicago has designed a giant psychedelic mural while Jeremy Deller has produced a series of billboards and a secret performance

Vito Acconci: the controversial and pioneering US artist who refused all restraint to explore his body

He sat under a floor at a gallery with a microphone for eight hours and masturbated while speaking of his fantasies about people sitting above

Sam Durant’s controversial Scaffold to be dismantled and burned

The artist and museum have reached an agreement with Dakota after protests

Giuseppe Penone unveils Rome’s first permanent installation of contemporary art

The luxury fashion brand Fendi commissioned the new work, installed outside its flagship boutique

Have bike, will empower: Tania Bruguera launches public art initiative CycleNews in Corona

For the project, women will hit the streets of Queens on bicycles to inform the immigrant-rich community of their rights and helpful government services

Final show in Vienna for Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary as organisation relocates to Prague

Exhibition inspired by oceans opening this week will be the last for “some time”

David Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails

The South African photographer also gets career survey at Centre Pompidou, Paris

Massachusetts museum’s expansion enables artists to dream big

Mass MoCA has planned massive, long-term shows on artists such as Jenny Holzer and James Turrell

How a $25,000 NEA grant became a springboard for change in a rural Minnesota community

The government money helped launch an initiative that has raised $1.2m in private funding

Who will win race to run Unesco?

France’s former culture minister among candidates to be new director-general

Renaissance royal costumes sparkle again in Dresden

Preserved by Saxon elders and plundered by Stalin’s Red Army, textiles return to view for first time since Second World War

Tate Modern continues to champion female artists with shows on Anni Albers and Joan Jonas in 2018

Major show on figurative painting at Tate Britain will feature Freud and Bacon while Tate Liverpool will host Egon Schiele survey

Conceptual artist Bernar Venet gets a bigger stage in the UK with three shows this summer

Gargantuan steel sculptures by French artist fill the grounds of Cliveden country house

Rare historic coins return to Salzburg Museum 70 years after they were looted

American Numismatic Society purchased the coins with aim of tracing original owner

New Orleans biennial Prospect.4 announces artist lineup and focus

With the theme The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, artistic director Trevor Schoonmaker stays in tune with the history of the city, the birthplace of jazz

The Bass is back: Miami Beach museum set to reopen in October after $12m renovation (and multiple delays)

A trio of solo shows will inaugurate the restructured space, which aims to respect the building’s Art Deco roots

Musée Dapper, Paris museum specialising in African art, to shut up shop

High costs and low footfall put end to non-profit institution

Turner Prize to take a trip to Margate’s Turner Contemporary in 2019

Gallery has attracted more than 2.3 million visitors since it opened helping to regenerate English seaside town

Deutsche Bank plans new culture forum in central Berlin

Building in Unter den Linden expected to open mid-2018

Dealer Perry Rubenstein cuts plea bargain, will serve jail time

He has been sentenced to 180 days in a private facility, and three years of formal probation

Will the Royal Academy give Michelangelo's masterpiece the setting it deserves?

Loan to National Gallery sparks internal debate about upgrading display of Taddei Tondo on its return