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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”

UK professors condemn axing of art history A-level

More than 200 academics have written an open letter expressing their “grave concerns"<br>

The Modern art Stalin did not want Russians to see

Sergei Shchukin’s holdings, split up by the Soviets, are reunited at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris

Italian mafia trading weapons for Libyan artefacts plundered by Isil?

La Stampa newspaper claims that looted artefacts are being trafficked in Calabria

Saint Jerome once owned by controversial collector Giulano Ruffini sent for technical tests

Sotheby's confirms painting shown at the Met attributed to Parmigianino now under suspicion

Former Cognac bottling factory is home to new French culture foundation

Inaugural installation by Vincent Lamouroux fills entire first floor with white sand and palms<br> <br>

Artist Kader Attia opens new art hub in Paris

Multidisciplinary space will focus on provocative political and cultural issues<br> <br>

Vladimir the monumental rises in Moscow

Statue of Russia’s tenth-century founder seen by many to honour Putin as well as the prince

Burrell’s world tour struggles to get beyond Glasgow

Scottish museum hoped to raise £15m for renovation fund but international venues are proving hard to secure

Get plastered at the Institute of Classical Art

Collection of forgotten casts from the Metropolitan Museum get new home in Manhattan

Collector and lawyer Peter Hort can pay, will pay artists

RISBE aims to ensure that artists and galleries are paid promptly

Three to see: New York

From a weird and wild ride through past presidential elections, to the calming canvases of Agnes Martin

Donation from collector Hallam Chow shores up M+ museum

Five works will enter the collection of Hong Kong institution due to open in 2019<br>