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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

UK government plans gallery for its off-duty art

A selection of the 14,000 works in the Government Art Collection will be on show

Brueghel discovered in Bath museum’s storeroom

Tests confirm that the Holburne’s picture is by Pieter Brueghel the Younger and not by a follower

Artists, curators and gallerists sign letter calling for repeal of Trump’s immigration order

“The ban affects all of us” say signatories from across the art world

Montreal’s Max Stern Foundation gets its Bacchus back

The FBI recovered the work when it was offered for sale at the 2015 Spring Masters fair in New York

Right-wing protesters disrupt unveiling of Syrian artist’s installation in Dresden

Manaf Halbouni’s "Monument" to Aleppo comprises three wrecked buses by the city’s Frauenkirche

Israelis and Palestinians in struggle to save last historic Arab village of Lifta

After surveying the site near Jerusalem, a government agency is now free to redevelop it into a luxury Jewish enclave

Attendance at major UK museums takes a plunge

Figures compiled by the government show a drop in visitors at Tate and the National Gallery

Tracey Emin funds scholarship for refugee student

British artist is among five donors who are supporting undergraduates at Bard College Berlin

Images of Gauguin in Tahiti discovered in photo album

Experts believe that prints in the album show the artist, his mistress and a ship’s doctor

Will the latest plans for Île Seguin finally turn it into a key Paris culture destination?

New project proposed by the Emerige group includes an art centre and art hotel

The Italian job(s): Colosseum boss wanted

Head needed for Rome's central archaeological area

Pride and prejudice: museums celebrate the decriminalisation of homosexuality

Institutions across England plan shows to mark 50 years since passage of landmark Sexual Offences Act

Rodin, Muslim style and hippie chic

In only a few months, Max Hollein has rebooted the exhibition programme of San Francisco’s de Young Museum and Legion of Honor

Saudi women artists make their mark at 21,39 festival in Jeddah

New works draw attention to destruction of Islamic heritage and female car crash victims

Louvre shuts after knife attack of ‘terrorist nature’

Man was shot after attacking soldier near entrance of Paris museum

Stolen Van Gogh paintings to go on show in Naples

The two works, which were taken from Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002, were recovered by anti-mafia police last year

Bamiyan Cultural Centre gets under way

Building at Unesco World Heritage site in Afghanistan, where the Taliban destroyed the monumental ancient Buddhas, due to open to the public in summer 2018

Uffizi to show more female artists

Florence museum’s director expands the canon—with a little help from the Guerrilla Girls

Public Art Fund to light up New York

The organisation celebrates its big 4-0 with a series of new commissions

It's time the art market got tough on fakes

Players in the trade acknowledge the problem, but disagreement over how to address it has resulted in a gridlock that helps to keep forgeries in circulation