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Julia Stoschek Collection celebrates 10 years with generation spanning video show

Exhibition curated by Ed Atkins includes work by Bruce Nauman, Jordan Wolfson and Lucy Raven

Agnes Gund urges collectors to sell their art to fight for justice

The philanthropist used her profits from the sale of a Roy Lichtenstein painting to create a criminal justice fund, in partnership with the Ford Foundation

National Gallery of Ireland’s grand reopening worth the protracted wait

Hundreds of works were restored during Dublin museum's refurbishment

The Getty gets £24.5m Parmigianino after no UK museum tries to match price

Export bar lifted on Italian Mannerist painting that has been in Britain for 250 years

Fahrelnissa Zeid: the Modern Turkish artist who walked on her canvases

Conservator travelled to Jordan to treat her work ahead of major Tate Modern show opening this week

Italian politicians clash over management of Colosseum

Rome mayor wins appeal against government plan to create new archaeological park

Lisson Gallery announces representation of Leon Polk Smith foundation

Hard-edge Minimalist influenced younger artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Jack Youngerman and Al Held

Shout out on social media enables Syrian refugee artist’s bronze to reach London

Alice Al Khatib’s work arrives from Beirut for group show while artist exiled in France

UK election upset leaves prime minister’s Brexit strategy in disarray

Remainers celebrate as Theresa May aims to lead minority government

Artist Eileen Cooper to step down as Keeper of Royal Academy Schools

Chief hanger of the Summer Exhibition, which opens next week, will be succeeded by Rebecca Salter

Economic blues on back burner as collectors flock to Art Basel

What to expect at the Swiss fair, including new faces and a funfair in the Messeplatz

When does a photograph lie? Taryn Simon's Innocents series looks at how images can be used to blur truth and fiction

The artist's images of the wrongfully committed go on show this month at the Guild Hall in New York

Roma artists and writers launch cultural institute in Berlin

First time the minority group will have permanent space to celebrate their art, history and traditions 

Peabody Essex Museum turns to neuroscience

Newly appointed researcher, Tedi Asher, wants to “slow down” visitors

Souls Grown Deep expands the canon of US art

Foundation helps museums across the US to acquire works by self-taught African-American artists of the South

Artoon by Pablo Helguera, June 2017

“We believe art museums should engage with scientific research—so we hired a neuroscientist to help us make visitors pay higher admission fees.”

Lights designed by Le Corbusier withdrawn from Paris auction at last minute

Artcurial auctioneers left surprised as sale of 100 light sconces from Firminy World Heritage site is halted

Spy games: Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron turn the Park Avenue Armory into a panopticon playground

The show Hansel and Gretel, which looks at how surveillance changes the perception of public space, is a mix of menace and fun

Andrea Fraser tracks down museum trustees' political donations

The artist says her project will examine how the US has become a plutocracy

UK election could trigger a cultural bonanza

Both the major political parties make big promises about new money for the arts

Organisers of Ghost Ship artist space charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter

The two men were involved in creating unsafe conditions at the converted Oakland warehouse that caught fire last year, prosecutors say

Monet to be star of London’s National Gallery next year

Exhibition of French Impressionist will be joined in 2018 by shows on Thomas Cole, Ed Ruscha, Mantegna and Bellini

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