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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

Cultural impact of Brexit revealed in new report

Funding gap and future of EU nationals among creative industry’s key concerns

Heritage sites damaged as more earthquakes hit Italy

Disaster comes two months after 6.2-magnitude tremor destroyed town of Amatrice, killing 295 people

Three to see: New York

Explore art history with Kerry James Marshall and bask in the pure positivity of Mark Leceky

Row over Temple Mount in Jerusalem is reignited

Israel attacks Unesco over pro-Palestinian resolution approved by World Heritage Committee<br>

Pope’s summer residence Castel Gandolfo opens to the public

Vatican Museums will run tours of private apartments for first time

London mayor pledges to create affordable artists’ studios

Newly formed Creative Land Trust will help to finance and protect workspaces across the capital

How the Townley Venus's thumb was knocked off at the British Museum

One of institution's most important sculptures, now restored, was damaged by external catering team setting up for corporate event

Rauschenberg goat is given a rare outing

Stuffed mammal is certain to be a highlight of Tate Modern’s survey of the late US artist’s work in December

Bottoms up! Contemporary art centre opens fully inside Berlin brewery

Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art in trendy Neukölln district has been unveiled in stages

Restorers use Japanese algae and sturgeon glue to treat Futurist work

Giacomo Balla's Automobile Speed + Light + Noise to go back on view in Zurich

London’s market for Islamic art stays strong

Stricter provenance laws and turmoil in Turkey did not dampen spirits at Sotheby’s and Christie’s

Unknown Kirchner painting discovered beneath later canvas

Städel Museum found Café Scene during tests on Sleigh Trip in the Snow

Is the curator who resigned in St Louis heading to Miami Beach?

Jeffrey Uslip, who organised a controversial Kelley Walker show, has been hired by the Bass Museum but may not take up the post

Berlin's KW Contemporary Art Institute gets a revamp

New director says the space will reopen in January after refurbishment and an organisational rethink

Anicka Yi awarded 2016 Hugo Boss Prize

Jury for prize, given by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, admired how experiments in artist’s work “push the limits of perceptual experience in the ‘visual’ arts”

The man who spent 40 years preserving Palmyra’s past

Polish archaeologist Michal Gawlikowski on his hopes for the war-torn city and his friendship with murdered scholar Khaled al-Asaad

Three to see: New York

From Charlotte Brontë’s letters to Robert Morris's plywood sculptures, we've got you covered on what to see in the city and beyond

Looters exploit the political chaos in Libya

Illicitly excavated artefacts are “gushing out” of the country, experts warn

Woman breaks nasty nearly-nude Hillary statue

She was acting as a “private citizen who was personally offended” says her employer, the National Museum of the American Indian

Qataris take a spin on Dia Al-Azzawi’s carousel in Doha

Qatar Museums’ burgeoning public art programme also includes commissions by Richard Serra and Bill Viola<br>

Madame Tussauds gives Yayoi Kusama the ultimate wax accolade

Waxworks museum in Hong Kong sets “queen of polka dots” in “infinite space”