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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

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

'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

The customers were always right at Wiener Werkstätte

But then they did include Gustav Klimt, his Lady in Gold and his lover

Sharjah Biennial follows recipe of crops, earth, water and cooking

The curator Christine Tohme broadens the event’s potential audience by also taking it to Dakar, Istanbul, Ramallah and Beirut

Paolo Viti

The many cultural initiatives of Olivetti’s and Fiat’s arts director

Modernism gives Art Dubai sales a boost

Rediscovered work from the 20th century has new relevance today