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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mayors demand that salvaged works of art be restored locally

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

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

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

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

German photographer is also creating a new series of pro-European posters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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