UK military draws up plans for specialist unit to protect cultural heritage in war zones

Third legislative attempt could pave the way for new Smithsonian institution, but new administration adds extra challenge

Works by 21 international artists will go on show at the Venice Biennale next year

Fog sculptures and multisensory "occasions" are on the programme next spring

It's your last chance to see Diane Arbus's revelatory show at the Metropolitan Museum

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From sacred spaces to meditative photographs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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