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French antiques dealers up in arms over move to ban elephant ivory sales
Art market professionals send an open letter to the government warning that a complete tusk ban would foster a black market
Impressionism leaps off the canvas and into the Bronx
Exhibition brings a period garden and 20 US Impressionist works to New York
Louvre narrowly averts disaster as staff rally to save art from flood
Collection remains vulnerable to rising waters until a planned superstore outside Paris opens in 2019
Billionaire collectors to open fourth museum in China
Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei are rapidly buying art to fill their growing museum empire
Brexit vote triggers shock and dismay
Fears for London art market amid political and economic uncertainty after UK votes to leave EU
Dalí foundation has no legal standing to protect artist’s image, Spain’s Supreme Court rules
The court dismissed an appeal from the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation in its lawsuit against a Barcelona exhibition production company
King’s Cross Project brings in two new curators
Tamsin Dillon and Rebecca Heald will commission works for the regenerated London station and surrounding area
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
Brexit: dismay and concern after historic decision to leave EU
Artists, institutions and art market respond to referendum result
German collector warns he will end loans to English institutions in event of Brexit
Heiner Pietzsch will lend works to Scotland instead
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