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Spring awakening? A shake-up for New York’s fairs

The city’s prime time for contemporary art gets a new programme, with an emphasis on discovery and depth

Ashley Bickerton gets retrospective break from Damien Hirst

Newport Street Gallery to present survey of Bali-based US artist

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Federal arts funding is on the White House’s hit list

If culture agencies dodge the fatal bullet, they should focus on collection-sharing and investment in bricks and mortar

Danh Vo takes on US independence with Mexican brands and gruesome tools

Permanent installation revealed at the Aishti Foundation in Beirut

Getty preserves Palmyra online in new show

The institution hopes its first digital exhibition will also reach the Arab world

Read the letter sent by 24 senators asking President Trump to keep funding the NEA and NEH

The bipartisan group outlines the importance of the culture agencies and how they improve American’s lives

Argentina stakes its claim on the international art scene

As interest grows in the country’s overlooked artists, its galleries test the water at Madrid's Arco fair

Installation in Venice to re-imagine Lenin’s tomb within Malevich’s black cube

Project marking centenary of Russian Revolution aims to highlight "potency of symbols in post-truth world"

The biggest challenges facing London’s new museum directors

As Tristram Hunt starts his new job at the V&A and Maria Balshaw joins the Tate in June, we look at some of the hurdles they will need to overcome

String theory: Spanish refugees inspired Henry Moore’s 1930s stringed sculptures

Bold colours revealed during restoration of San Diego Museum of Art's latest acquisition

Public asked to photograph ‘secret collection’ of works stored in homes across the UK

Open Inheritance Art project aims to uncover items that should be publicly available through tax-relief arrangements

Recovered ancient artefacts—ransacked during war—to feature at the Iraq pavilion in Venice

Objects drawn from the National Museum of Iraq will be shown alongside works by Modern and contemporary artists

‘To be a Scotsman receiving a French award in Germany—it keeps people guessing’

Douglas Gordon explains why he asked to receive France’s highest honour in Berlin

It's about time: NYU launches US first time-based media conservation graduate course

The degree is the first of its kind in the US and reflects the growing need for specialists in the field

Frieze New York announces artists and historical focus for Frieze Projects

The 2017 programme is about seeing and being seen—just like an art fair, curator Cecilia Alemani says

Call for Italy’s quake-stricken works to return home for treatment

Mayors demand that salvaged works of art be restored locally

Art heavyweights back new campaign targeting rise of right-wing populism

Tacita Dean, Ed Ruscha and Frances Morris sign-up in support of the Hands off our Revolution movement

New galleries bring buzz to San Francisco, but no gold rush—yet

Art scene is expanding into other parts of the city after high rents forced an exodus from downtown

Artists rally to help fight Parkinson’s disease

Sale of works by Peter Doig, Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst among others will to help fund research into the degenerative condition

Art Fair Philippines pushes itself onto Pacific radar

Despite political volatility in the country, the fair’s organisers hope to maintain momentum with growing interest from foreign collectors as well as galleries

Battle over Kiefer’s Beijing show escalates as curator rejects dealers’ objections

Organisers say Western galleries are attempting to protect their interests in the Chinese market

Russian billionaire’s new Venice gallery to open with show of Soviet and contemporary art

Inaugural exhibition will include work by Rodchenko, Tillmans and a new Barbara Kruger commission

Court ruling forces German convent to exhibit Nazi artist

Public authority loses appeal to remove from display the works of Erich Klahn, which feature swastikas and other Third Reich symbols

Why auctioneers are buying into forensics

Scientific analysis comes to the fore as Sotheby's establishes new department, but some remain doubtful about technology's reliability

Curators resist pressure to hold sculpture show in Münster more often

German city debates whether to stage once-a-decade festival every five years

Artists go large on Los Angeles’s billboards

UK art collaborative Art Below is latest organisation to take public art to the city's roadsides

Henry Moore modelling Burberry? Luxury fashion brand teams-up with sculptor’s foundation for show

Revamp of Henry Moore Foundation for 40th anniversary also includes opening of new visitor centre