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New York buyers focus on photography’s big names

Images by Man Ray, Diane Arbus and early Gilbert & George tempt collectors as auctions buck up

Dario Fo: the life and death of an ideological jester, whose plays lampooned inequality and corruption

Fo spent his life whipping up jolly storms, claiming “freedom of opinion and happiness of existence through rage and laughter”

Modernism goes Latin American at MoMA

Collectors’ gift is part of wider trend in US museums as they redefine American art

Charity begins at home for the Mike Kelley Foundation

As shows open in London and New York, the artist’s Mobile Homestead will hit the road again in Detroit next year

The lesser-known beneficiaries of the Louvre Abu Dhabi deal

Museums across France are making quick use of cash injections

Pompidou Brussels gets lacklustre greeting from locals

Some question the need for French franchise deal

Fight to save art history exam

More than 200 British academics express “grave concerns”

Step inside Gaudí’s first major creation

A home the Spanish architect built for a Barcelona stockbroker is to be restored—with input from the first tenants’ descendants

The hunt for Van Gogh’s bed

A new book reveals the journey of the artist’s famous furniture from Arles to a town near Arnhem in 1945

National Gallery director says $30m Matisse portrait 'not Nazi-looted art'

Heirs of Greta Moll are demanding London museum returns painting of their grandmother