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Three to see: New York

From a New York Ab-Ex anniversary to Bruce Nauman striking a sculptural pose

Why a growing number of museum veterans are crossing over to the commercial sector

Boundaries are not what they used to be, as the former director of the Andy Warhol Museum heads to Sotheby’s

Black history takes its place on Washington’s Mall

US president Barack Obama is due to cut the ribbon on the Smithsonian’s newest museum this month

Simon Fujiwara teams up with former Harrow teacher who became tabloid news

Artist’s film on Joanne Salley will be shown at the Photographers' Gallery in London<br> <br>

Crackdown in Turkey after coup attempt

Artists and cultural figures among thousands being detained

Bill Viola reconnects with Florence’s Old Masters for Palazzo Strozzi show

Uccello and Masolino’s frescoes on US artist’s “wish list” for retrospective next year

V&A director Martin Roth to leave in the autumn

Under his leadership, the museum attracted a record number of visitors and was crowned Museum of the Year

New arts district to boost Johannesburg’s cultural credentials

As South Africa’s market gains momentum, investor mixes galleries, restaurants and destination shopping in his Keyes Art Mile development

Mosaic of drawings by North Korean refugees lights up the Thames

Ik-Joong Kang’s floating sculpture focuses on the reunification of North and South Korea

Royal Academy to stage major Jasper Johns retrospective

Exhibition at London institution will tackle “different chapters” of artist’s vast canon spanning more than 60 years<br> <br>

Tragic photograph of Syrian toddler spurs Alfredo Jaar to action

The New York-based Chilean artist is working with Maltese charity dedicated to saving refugees’ lives at sea

Galaxy of art heads to observatory in Russia’s north Caucasus

Alexandra Paperno among artists creating installations in tiny village in southern Russia

London's National Gallery seeks Treasury’s help to buy £30m Italian Old Master

Fundraising is complicated after aristocratic seller paid inheritance tax on portrait by Pontormo

Three to see: New York

From a nearly-finished show of unfinished works, to a new look at an Old Master

Galleries chip in to bring contemporary art to Florence

Dealers make shows of work by Koons, Currin and Gormley possible

Royal Academicians back arts education campaign

Debate in Parliament follows 100,000-strong petition

Academics condemn loss of senior editors at art publishers

Yale University Press London defends controversial redundancies

Tamir Rice shooting: park gazebo could come to Chicago

The recently opened Stony Island Arts Bank is negotiating with the Tamir Rice Foundation to display the infamous structure