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Major exhibition on the Hajj planned for Abu Dhabi this autumn

Show exploring annual pilgrimage to Mecca due to be held at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Peggy Guggenheim's great-grandchildren say New York exhibition violates her legacy

Row follows long-running legal dispute between the Guggenheim Foundation and the collector's descendants

President Erdoğan plans new museum dedicated to Turkey’s failed coup

Propaganda project will focus on the “martyrs and warriors” who fought last summer’s rebellion

Pompeii will have 'regular maintenance at last'

Massimo Osanna, the man leading the ancient city's restoration, has turned the site around—but there is still work to do

Trinity Church sued by sculptor over 9/11 work removed from courtyard

Steve Tobin filed a complaint under the Visual Artists Rights Act saying the church violated his moral rights

Germany to investigate mass plunder of works of art by Stasi in Cold War era

Research into post-war seizures of art in East Germany could spark international restitution claims

'World's shortest railway' to resume service by this summer

Angel's Flight, a historic funicular in downtown Los Angeles, gets major revamp ahead of its reopening

Kentridge opens Johannesburg space for artists to learn by failing

The independent Centre for the Less Good Idea aims to stay small and be creative

What's driving the growing interest in African art?

As exhibitions abound and a game-changing new museum gets ready to open in South Africa, the market looks set to follow

Museum for pioneer of abstraction Hilma af Klint is stuck in limbo

Swedish painter's family says a group of "anthroposophists" is hindering the project

House Republicans join fight to save NEA

Bipartisan letter to budget committee urges an increase in funding

Berlin Wall gets its own protective railing

New barrier at East Side Gallery heritage site will keep tourists back

Victoria and Albert Museum plans new centre and touring shows for expanded photography collection

London institution’s new holdings include controversial transfer of 270,000 photographs from Bradford

One man’s epic quest to recover a stolen painting by ‘Iraq’s Picasso’

The 1968 battle scene was withdrawn last month from Christie’s Dubai sale, but its fate remains in question

London's National Gallery goes for Bellotto after failing to buy Pontormo

Institution is now trying to raise £11m to buy an export-deferred work by the Italian painter

National Gallery expansion plan ‘starting to take shape’

Office block next door is potential site, says director Gabriele Finaldi

Damien Hirst launches shipwreck spectacle in Venice

British artist's monumental sculptures fill François Pinault’s museums

New Moscow triennial includes Crimea in survey show of Russian art

The decision to include programming from the contested peninsula has come under fire

London’s Flat Time House reopens after Italian foundation steps in to save it

Closure last year of former home and studio of conceptual artist John Latham was expected to be permanent

National Portrait Gallery to collect pub signs, pilgrim badges and Yoruba sculpture

Gallery of famous Britons radically expands definition of portraiture with help of Art Fund

Michelangelo-designed frame reimagined by National Gallery

A mix of old and new elements gives greater depth to Sebastiano del Piombo’s The Raising of Lazarus

Legal battle over Schiele works owned by Jewish entertainer who died in Dachau

His heirs’ attempts to recover them will be framed by President Obama’s Holocaust Act

Russia’s regional collections get left out in the cold

A push for new patriotic displays across Russia threatens to displace—and potentially harm—thousands of works

Richard Parry appointed new director of Glasgow International

He takes the reins of the contemporary art festival's eighth edition next year, replacing Sarah McCrory

Tunisian pavilion to issue travel documents at Venice Biennale

Migration will be the focus of the country’s first Biennale project in more than 50 years

Texas oil town is enjoying another boom—and this time it’s for art

Since the arrival of a contemporary fair jolted its local collecting scene, Dallas has gone from outpost to hot spot

Collectors reserve space as New York’s first art freeport prepares for summer launch

New facility offers museum-quality environment and cutting-edge security

Banksy work cleared from vacant site and restored for public display

Toronto developer’s intervention raises questions about the practice of preserving street art