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Curators' tour of the new Tate Modern

As gallery attracts more than one million visitors in opening month, Catherine Wood, Achim Borchardt-Hume and Matthew Gale pick the works that take pride of place

Artists divided over Rio Olympic Games

Doubts hang over city's ability to provide public services during event as Brazil's financial troubles deepen

National Museum of Oman opens in Muscat

Institution to focus on the display and conservation of the sultanate’s cultural heritage from prehistory to the present

Turkish painter and journalist Zehra Doğan arrested

Her art and writing has reportedly been used against her as evidence of ties to “illegal” Kurdish organisation

America™: Alfredo Jaar’s controversial 1987 billboard work lights up London’s Piccadilly Circus

Donald Trump’s immigration policies make Logo for America more urgent than ever, the Chilean-born artist says

Stolen Salvador Dalí and Tamara de Lempicka works recovered

The two pieces were taken in 2009 from a Dutch museum during opening hours

Meet Udnie, Picabia’s muse and America’s first supermodel

Biographer uncovers identity of avant-garde artist’s model and tells the story of her tragic life

‘Mad ambience’ of 1960s Mali depicted in Malick Sidibé’s first major UK solo show

Somerset House exhibition is among slew of projects coming to London during 1:54 contemporary African art fair

Louvre-Lens to restore Le Brun lost after the French Revolution

Painting of Christ once owned by the Sun King went missing for 200 years and was almost completely obscured by age and layers of dirt

Turmoil at Honolulu’s Bishop Museum

Fears abound for the collection-rich, cash-poor Hawaiian institution

Times are a-changing for Italian museums

Deadline passes for ad seeking nine museum directors, but who will get the jobs?

Robert Irwin plays with light and dark in Marfa

Californian artist’s permanent installation opens in the Texan town that Donald Judd put on the map

Three to see: New York

Travel to Queens with the Ramones and survey the legacy of the Seljuq dynasty at the Met

Three to see: London

From Eggleston's portraits of America to a hot Latin summer south of the river

Rachel Whiteread unveils first major permanent commission in the US

Site-specific concrete cabin stands on a 40ft hill overlooking New York Harbour

All aboard the Mary Rose: Henry VIII’s fully restored warship opens to the public

Visitors will be able to see the Tudor king's favourite vessel up close as protective barriers come down

Long Museum Chongqing tackles Cultural Revolution with rare show of paintings

Decade of terror remains a highly sensitive subject in China, but that may now be changing

How far can developers gentrify the artist hub of Red Hook?

New projects are looming, but there are still around 150 artists’ studios in the Brooklyn neighbourhood

New show reveals grisly details behind Van Gogh’s mutilated ear

The exhibition in Amsterdam focuses on the artist’s mental illness and includes the revolver that he used to kill himself

Wake-up call: climate change is serious threat to our heritage

As the Unesco World Heritage Committee convenes in Istanbul, a recent report by the organisation highlights sites under threat from global warming<br>

Major Danish museum returns looted antiquities to Italy

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen will hand over around 500 items acquired in the 1970s

Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir

Artists mix fiction and reality in the ninth edition that reimagines the city’s past, present and future

Leading Iranian artist accused by authorities of disturbing the peace

Parviz Tanavoli faces allegations in Tehran court as part of government clampdown

Frida Kahlo’s potent portrait on US-Mexico border heads to Philadelphia

The 1930s painting, on show in October, is a timely response to the anti-immigrant stance of Donald Trump

Jeffrey Deitch makes SoHo comeback

Artists Eddie Peake and Walter Robinson will inaugurate the dealer’s Wooster Street space this autumn

Valeria Napoleone's all-female art collection hits the road

The London-based philanthropist partners with Museums Sheffield to show works by women artists

Danh Vo to create sprawling installation at White Cube in Hong Kong

The Danish-Vietnamese artist collaborates for first time with the gallery<br> <br>

Brexit: what it could mean for the arts

Leading figures speak out about concerns for the future after UK votes to leave European Union<br>

The Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, Islam’s second holiest site, attacked

Seventh-century complex in Saudi Arabia is one of three locations targeted by terrorists<br>

Katharina Grosse's splash of colour for New York beachside building

The Rockaway! project at Fort Tilden opened this week but will vanish in November<br>