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UK Parliament’s soot and secrets preserved in latex

Jorge Otero-Pailos’s mirror image of a wall in Westminster Hall resonates after the Brexit vote

Munich museums sold art looted from Jewish families to Nazis after war, new research shows

Paintings recovered by Monuments Men and entrusted to Bavaria were instead sold, in some cases to prominent Nazis

George Lucas abandons plans to build a museum in Chicago after two-year legal battle

Star Wars creator is now looking to California for a space to house his art collection and memorabilia

Brexit: dismay and concern after historic decision to leave EU

Artists, institutions and art market respond to referendum result

The ICP takes the downtown plunge with Bowery reopening

New venue has roughly the same exhibition space as its former midtown site, but offers easier public access in a more art-friendly location

The party’s over as New York’s top museums feel the pinch

MoMA, the Met and the Brooklyn Museum are planning to reduce staff numbers to help balance the books

South Korean artist wins Cern residency prize

His project will harness the European science laboratory’s capabilities

Vitra opens first permanent home for landmark designs

Herzog & de Meuron’s ‘depot’ houses 400 key items of furniture

Kids commission the darnedest things: New York high-schoolers choose public art for Long Island City

Brooklyn-based artist Mika Tajima work looks like a hot tub with plumes of coloured vapour that change hues based on the fluctuating price of gold

Paint with the polar bears: Norwegian government launches art foundation and residency on Svalbard

As coal-mining industry faces collapse on the remote Arctic archipelago, attention is shifting towards culture

Artists set sail for the South Pole, via Venice

They will be joined by scientists, poets and “visionaries” on the voyage for next year's inaugural Antarctic Biennale <br>

Kunstmuseum Basel’s new director arrives in style

Josef Helfenstein inherits more space— and lots of freedom

Slot machine mobster’s confiscated collection goes on show in Reggio

State-seized art includes paintings by Salvador Dalí, Lucio Fontana and Giorgio de Chirico

Scream seller’s space to open in 2017

Norwegian shipping heir Petter Olsen will show other works by Munch from his collection in private museum funded by $120m sale

Meet the man at the centre of the Cranach mystery

French collector Giulano Ruffini claims to have found and sold other paintings later attributed to Old Masters

Hard lives of China’s internal migrants inspire its artists

Artists focus on disorientation and discrimination faced by the millions who seek work in China’s cities and factories

With sanctions in the rear-view mirror, European museums look to Iranian art

V&A plans show on Iranian heritage and history while Berlin seals deal with Tehran museum

As protests rage, will BP ditch the BM?

The museum stands to lose around £500,000 a year when the current partnership agreement ends

Kenny Schachter on how to survive an art fair

Don't be shy, be bold–and don't take in too many fluids

Tate Modern: a museum for our times

London institution is the quintessential contemporary museum, Bruce Altshuler says

Trend for art in shopping malls hits France

Miró sculptures from the Maeght collection go on show at Polygone Riviera on the Côte d'Azur

British doubts over Joan of Arc’s ring

French owner petitions the Queen after relic is taken across the Channel following export licence faux pas

Hidden antiquities stash discovered in diplomatic car travelling from Jordan to Jerusalem

The local driver was arrested on antiquities smuggling charges last week and has been released on bail

Bronx Museum postpones show after Cuba halts loans to US

State-owned works of art risk seizure to satisfy $7bn of claims by Americans

Third copyright lawsuit filed against Richard Prince for appropriating Sid Vicious photo

The artist is accused of using a London photographer’s image of the Sex Pistol’s bassist in an Instagram work

Helen Mirren testifies in support of Holocaust art restitution bill

The actress appeared with other advocates in Washington, DC to speak at a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing

Walter Benjamin’s reading list of crime and classics revealed

Philosopher’s little black book of books included in Berlin show by artist and author Edmund de Waal

Artists invited to illuminate the river Thames

Ambitious project to transform central London’s bridges is backed by Rothschild family and city’s mayor

Shake up in Moscow’s contemporary art scene

Police question former director of National Centre for Contemporary Arts in connection to corruption investigation