Council has greenlighted Rem Koolhaas-designed, £110m home of city’s international festival <br>

Rare&nbsp;Renaissance paintings, Francis Bacon’s “Screaming Popes” and the Turner Prize will go on show in the refurbished space<br>

Italian Modern art gallery reopens this week after £600,000 refurbishment

Work on La Serenissima's oldest bridge is done, but official unveiling will take place during the Venice Biennale

From a $30m Gentileschi to the Beverly Hills home featured in the Big Lebowski, here's how institutions spent their cash last year

Series of high-level dismissals shows the right-wing government’s tightening grip on the arts

Dealers hope relocation of fairs will not prove disruptive during historic venue’s refurbishment

The sweeping legislation cleared a hefty tax bill for the heirs of American businessman Jim Thompson, whose home and collection in Bangkok was turned into a public museum

1986 tax package put the squeeze on donations

Uncertainty is the name of the game, made unpredictable by international politics and an economic downturn in the Gulf

Twelve artists have been commissioned to create works looking back on the present day from 4017<br> <br>

Initiative is part of the Sharjah Biennial’s ambitious off-site programme<br>

Dutch specialist decided against taking legal action over his Mayfair lease and left area after 40 years

Student demand, educational trends and a steady supply of cash spur expansions on campus<br>

State has 30 months to buy newly discovered work hailed as a “national treasure”<br> <br>

Museum reopened less than two hours later as no threat found, police said

Experts assess seismic stability of Galleria dell’Accademia and the rest of the city's treasures

The state has secured more than 80,000 works belonging to the Czartoryski dynasty

Curators hope to retrace the artist’s steps with paintings, drawings and copies of a lost journal

Ten-metre-high illuminated sculpture was originally created for Rio de Janeiro

Vuitton museum to show Modern masterpieces from MoMA

Clandon Park, a country mansion in Surrey, was severely damaged by blaze in 2015

Palestinian art collector has commissioned a wall hanging based on Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi’s drawing, which is now in the Tate

Exhibition will include Bell’s images of the Bloomsbury set and Smith’s shots of the group’s country retreat<br>

From opulent ancien régime metalwork to Dubuffet's elegant drawings

Andrei Karlov was fatally shot in terrorist attack at photography exhibition in Ankara, Russia’s foreign ministry says

Old Masters fair ended in Paris last year but will launch in Belgium instead with 20 international galleries

Scott will take the reins at the south London venue in its 200th anniversary year<br>

From feminist art to the last years of Max Beckmann