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Nicholas Serota looks beyond Tate Modern

Tate director rules out overseas satellites to carry on serving a broad public at home

Artists and museums find ways to help refugees feel welcome

Plight of thousands fleeing war zones inspires creative humanitarian responses

Letter among Panama papers reveals Sotheby’s awareness of Modigliani’s true owners

Oscar Stettiner estate lawyers redouble efforts for return of painting as Nazi loot

SFMoMA shows off its hard-won treasures

The San Francisco museum reopens with something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue-chip

Rijksmuseum promotes Taco Dibbits to be new director general

Scholarly head of collections to take overall charge of Dutch national museum of art

Art makeover for Parisian trains and tram stops

Joana Vasconcelos will create a new work for the T3 tram line, while SNCF has unveiled a new Versailles-themed fleet of trains

Artists speak out as the battle rages over Brexit

Tacita Dean creates work inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest while Michael Craig-Martin and Wolfgang Tillmans design posters

Artists’ Film Biennial at ICA London brings new and rarely seen works to the big screen

Second edition focuses on developments and trends, with input from artists, curators and industry heavyweights

Two Moscow museums to merge amid controversy

The new institution's director says the goal is efficiency

Out with the old, in with the new: Marianne Boesky closes one space to open another

The dealer will more than double her gallery footprint with an expansion

Member of Ai Weiwei’s studio questioned by police during evacuation of Idomeni camp

Lu Hengzhong has been filming at the refugee camp in Greece for past 12 weeks

JR makes Louvre pyramid disappear

French artist’s work is a criticism of our selfie culture

Bronx Museum to undergo facelift

The project is expected to cost around $25m, but will not include an expansion

Badlands Unlimited launches series of e-books by artists

Rachel Rose and Howie Chen are among the first artists to work on the new project

Political message on Hong Kong’s tallest tower pulled from exhibition

The message included a countdown to the expiration date of a political agreement between China and Hong Kong

Courtauld Institute announces £50m revamp

Project includes renovation of gallery in Somerset House and a new online archive for more than one million images

Looted Safavid bowl returned to National Museum of Afghanistan

Kabul director calls for restitution of other treasures taken during 1990s civil war

Appeal to raise £10m for Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I

Historic painting is being sold by descendants of Sir Francis Drake