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David Hockney to design stained-glass window for the Queen in Westminster Abbey

British artist says work, to be unveiled in 2018, will be "a landscape full of blossom"

Jeff Koons unveils plans for a memorial to the victims of the Paris terror attacks

But funding still needs to be found for Bouquet of Tulips, which is modelled on the Statue of Liberty

Germany to fund research into Nazis’ 'degenerate art'

Government steps in to fill funding gap for project after private partner withdraws

Artist creates mirrored shields for Standing Rock protesters

Cannupa Hanska Luger says he hopes the project will empower demonstrators and create a connection with police

Picasso and the Mediterranean: 40 exhibitions will celebrate artist's ties to the region

Musée Picasso in Paris plans to lend works to venues in Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Cyprus and Morocco from next year

New fine art and antiques fair to launch in Paris next November

Move draws criticism from organisers of Biennale des Antiquaires who are not keen on a competing fair

Norwegian minister steps in after Bjarne Melgaard's works detained by customs as 'not art'

Artist and his gallery were facing a huge VAT bill to release 16 paintings

Anselm Kiefer calls for his first exhibition in China to be cancelled

German artist says he did not give his consent to the show at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts

Design Museum aims for ‘Tate effect’ after move to west London

Institution funded by Terence Conran on the South Bank reopens in Kensington next week

Three to see: New York

From sacred spaces to meditative photographs

Van Gogh Museum rejects artist's 'lost sketchbook'

Experts at odds over attribution to painter of 65 drawings to be published in new book

Baghdad pop-up show could rise from the ruins

Artists hope to restage exhibition first seen in bombed-out shopping centre

Take a peek into Lacma’s future

Peter Zumthor’s ambitious design aims to eliminate traditional hierarchies and evoke “a walk in the woods”

High Line curator Cecilia Alemani to present pared-down Italian pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale

The curator has chosen to show works by three artists: Roberto Cuoghi, Adelita Husni-Bey and Giorgio Andreotta Calò

Why the ‘Uber effect’ is proving elusive for online platforms

Business is growing but no one has truly disrupted the market—yet

Estonian National Museum reopens to religious uproar

Interactive work in inaugural display condemned as an insult to the Virgin Mary

Alphonse Mucha's grandson sues Prague to stop Asian tour of Slav Epic

Artist’s heir fears trip to Japan and China could harm the 20 monumental paintings

Amnesty International and Iranian rock band launch campaign to free artists jailed in Iran

They include brothers Mehdi Rajabian and Hossein Rajabian who are on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison

Award-winning artist studios in north London face redevelopment

Cockpit Arts building is part of proposed overhaul of Holborn Library, but council is to rehouse artists on same site

Edward Snowden, artists and activists to weigh-in on Trump at Oakland tech conference

The organisers of the Real Future Fair have made the event free to everyone following the results of the US election

China’s new Silk Road leads west to Middle East

Biennials in country’s Muslim-majority regions coincide with cultural exchange with Qatar

How Toronto learned to embrace its street art

After the former mayor’s crackdown on graffiti triggered a backlash, city officials decided to stop arresting artists and start hiring them

‘Afghan girl with green eyes' Sharbat Gula deported from Pakistan

Subject of famous National Geographic cover convicted of having fake ID papers<br> <br>

Poetry to honour victims on anniversary of Paris terrorist attacks

Institut du Monde Arabe will host a night of readings this weekend

Cairo’s leading Townhouse Gallery officially reopens in converted paper factory

Egyptian armed police enforced the partial demolition of the main building in April after some of it collapsed

Berlin to build temporary exhibition space amid Pergamon Museum delays

New building will host Asisi’s Pergamon panorama and a frieze from the altar

Artists express dismay at Donald Trump’s US election victory

Billionaire political outsider has few supporters in the art world