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Lights designed by Le Corbusier withdrawn from Paris auction at last minute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

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