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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The 1968 battle scene was withdrawn last month from Christie’s Dubai sale, but its fate remains in question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
Egypt revives major museum projects, six years after revolution
Political will is there but cash remains short
Banksy work cleared from vacant site and restored for public display
Toronto developer’s intervention raises questions about the practice of preserving street art
Documenta 14 artists will respond to discovery of Gurlitt art hoard
Commissioned works will explore Nazi loot and "riddle of German history"
Tate chairman Lord Browne writes impassioned personal account for Queer British Art show
Exhibition opens this week with catalogue foreword by former chief executive of BP who kept his sexuality a secret until 2007
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art will shine a light on Baltic and Nordic artists
Katerina Gregos is the curator of the new biennial due to open in 2018
'Critics say Pop artists love their subject matter. Bullshit!' Remembering James Rosenquist
Pop artist, who has died aged 83, told us ahead of his 2003 Guggenheim retrospective about subverting New York billboards as a young man
Ropac seeks to unlock the hidden selling power of Joseph Beuys
The Austrian dealer will open his London gallery with work by the great German conceptualist, whose auction prices do not reflect his international stature