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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

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