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Wim Pijbes quits as director of just-opened Museum Voorlinden

Former Rijksmuseum boss packs in “dream job” three weeks after private museum opens its doors

Cologne to return Menzel drawing sold in 1939 to Hildebrand Gurlitt

City says drawing was sold under duress, probably to fund escape to US by couple persecuted by the Nazis

Islamic extremist sentenced to nine years in prison for destroying Timbuktu mausoleums

Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi was first to face war crimes trial in The Hague over cultural destruction

Farideh Lashai’s Goya-inspired digital epic to go on show at the British Museum

Late Iranian artist’s piece will first go on show at the Prado alongside the Spanish artist's work

The Art Newspaper’s 25th anniversary survey

Ahead of our investigation at the Vatican on 6 October, we want to know your thoughts on what is art for

Is this the very first readymade?

Three million years before Duchamp, an ape-like humanoid in Africa found a stone that is now going on display for the first time at the British Museum

Creative Time goes to Washington

The New York-based non-profit's summit in the capital focuses largely on the grassroots movement

Three to see: New York

From death in Chelsea to free art on the Upper East Side

Swedish artist’s memorial to Norway terrorist attack unlikely to go ahead

Government prepared to drop Jonas Dahlberg’s proposal in order to appease local campaign

Taryn Simon looks at how we all mourn at the Park Avenue Armory

US Immigration is an unwitting curator in the multidisciplinary artist’s project on the global practice of grieving

Who will build a permanent art centre in Copenhagen?

Danish art dealer and privately run institution among those bidding to develop ‘kunsthal’

Hassan Sharif, the godfather of conceptual art in the Gulf, has died

Emirati who created constructivist drawings and performance pieces in the desert was “probably the greatest artist from the UAE”<br>

Iranian artist Iran Darroudi funds major new museum in Tehran—to show her works

City authorities are backing the venue which will house almost 200 works by the veteran painter<br>

Show of Lebanon-based Syrian artists to open underneath London train station

Films and paintings have been created with refugees who have crossed the border<br>

Leading Istanbul galleries join forces for new Gallery Weekend

Fourteen dealers aim to bring “positive energy” to the city in wake of failed coup <br> <br>

Three to see: London

Gawp and howl at Wifredo Lam’s Vodou inspired-works before being sectioned at the Wellcome Collection’s Bedlam show <br>

Three to see: New York

From a photographer in exile, to a painter changing his stripes

Mike Kelley Foundation could follow Rauschenberg’s lead over image copyright

How to support scholarship among hot topics at Berlin conference on keeping artists’ names alive

Thomas Heatherwick steps up to the challenge of creating a centrepiece for Hudson Yards redevelopment

The British designer unveiled his hive-like staircase structure to be installed in a new public square on the West Side of Manhattan

Hamza Walker named the new executive director of LAXART

The curator comes to the LA non-profit from Chicago’s Renaissance Society

R4 'art city' on Paris’s Île Seguin finds new financial backer

The real estate group Emerige has taken over the project as its chief investor Yves Bouvier faces continuing legal troubles

La Biennale des Antiquaires, the grande dame of art fairs, gets a facelift

Reactions to Paris fair revamp have been positive but US collectors stay away due to Tefaf and terrorism

Scottish government bets big on V&A franchise in Dundee

Costs double but funders keep faith with design museum

As artists play the field, galleries are having to adapt

In-demand artists are increasingly calling the shots and forcing dealers to adapt to more fluid relationships

Three to see: London Design Biennale

From an experimental snowmobile to toe chopsticks and Proustian sweets<br>

Art Basel Cities to launch cultural programming in Buenos Aires

The fair organisation will consult on multi-year initiative in the Argentine capital with the aim of attracting the creative class

Rijksmuseum to reveal ‘truly sensational discovery’ of Brazilian animal drawings by Frans Post

Dutch landscape artist's notes describe six-banded armadillo as "good to eat, tastes like a chicken”

Lucy and Jorge Orta give us a flavour of how much food we consume and waste in new show

Exhibition in Peterborough is&nbsp; dedicated to the couple’s initiatives on the “politics of food”<br> <br>