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Detroit invests $3.7m in African-American art
The DIA’s director wants collection to better reflect the city’s population
Science, then and now, reveals marvels of Medieval manuscripts
Fitzwilliam’s anniversary exhibition breaks ground across the centuries
Billionaires to build Chelsea home for coveted collection
Renaissance bronzes will take pride of place in Tom and Janine Hill’s private museum
Christoph Büchel's plans to build supermarket in Düsseldorf museum axed
K21 cancels project because Swiss conceptual artist’s ideas became too “complicated"<br> <br>
Artists and museums sue Israel’s ministry of culture
Protests against threats to freedom of speech flared all summer
How Italy stopped Venice being put on Unesco’s Heritage In Danger list
The government lobbied the director of the World Heritage Centre, diplomats and national delegates
Pedro Reyes’s haunted house taps into the scary side of American politics
The artist calls the Creative Time project in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park “political catharsis”
An edifice worthy of the pharaohs rises next to the pyramids
The Grand Egyptian Museum aims to lure foreign visitors back to Cairo
Richard Long gets down to earth at 101 Spring Street
British sculptor invited to create mud-based work in Donald Judd’s restored SoHo home and studio
High-profile patron Tiqui Atencio turns the spotlight on her fellow collectors with new book
Publication includes interviews with almost 100 art-world figures such as Maja Hoffmann and Damien Hirst<br> <br>
Parviz Tanavoli unveils his largest ever work at Toronto’s Aga Khan museum
Iranian artist, who faced a travel ban in July, will also show the biggest Heech sculpture in the show<br>
Ai Weiwei dropped from Yinchuan Biennale in China
Museum's artistic director reveals how decision was taken out of her hands by “higher officials”
Italian museums to donate ticket sales on Sunday to earthquake rescue efforts
Culture ministry meets with specialist art squad today to plan response after first emergency phase
English school exam results show shift away from creative subjects
Royal Academicians “unanimous” in concern at fall in teenagers studying arts
Centre Pompidou to unveil major donation of 20th-century Russian art
Collection supported by the Vladimir Potanin Foundation includes Soviet noncomformist works and pays tribute to artists with a French connection
Assisi basilica declared safe after fatal earthquake strikes central Italy
Monument to Saint Francis, decorated with frescoes by Cimabue and Giotto, is located at heart of earthquake-prone area
Chicago judge rules Peter Doig ‘absolutely did not paint’ disputed work
The ruling brings the value of the painting at the centre of the long-running case back to nil
Serpentine Sackler Gallery to mount major Zaha Hadid show
Paintings, drawings and digital art by the late British-Iraqi architect will be exhibited at London institution this winter<br> <br>
Olympic boxer Joe Joyce puts paint—as well as people—on canvas
Super-heavyweight silver medallist, who arrives home today with Team GB, is an artist with a penchant for Picasso<br> <br>
Dambulla temple in Sri Lanka will not be stripped of Unesco world heritage status
Organisation issues statement after international press raised concerns that the holy site could be delisted<br> <br>
Contemporary art fair comes to Warsaw's historic Palace of Culture
New event in Soviet relic casts an eye beyond Polish borders
Islamic extremist pleads guilty to destroying Timbuktu mausoleums in landmark trial
Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is first to be charged with war crimes over cultural destruction at International Criminal Court
Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery under fire over Crimean loans in blockbuster show
Ukraine calls for boycott of museum for borrowing 38 works by Ivan Aivazovsky from annexed territories
UK museums sponsored by BP not in breach of code of ethics, committee says
Art Not Oil coalition says it is “disappointed” with Museums Association’s findings
New affordable-art website Collectionair backed by curatorial big-hitters
Former director of Pompidou among names behind online platform, which sells works for under $10,000<br> <br>