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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
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
Documents signed by Abraham Lincoln go on sale at Sotheby's
Copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment will go to auction
London's best alternative photography events to zoom in on this weekend
With Photo London in full swing, the capital is awash with photography, from a 24-hours festival in Peckham to a group show in the India Club
Berlin’s lost Renaissance sculptures rediscovered in the Pushkin Museum
The 59 sculptures were among treasures seized by Stalin’s “Trophy Brigades” after the Second World War
‘It’s a bigger story’: Frances Morris outlines her global vision for Tate Modern
A monumental extension and a shake-up of the museum’s displays will see more international names, live art and female artists
New light shed on craftsmen who captured sea life in glass
Corning Museum restores fragile models by father and son glassblowers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
Adel Abdessemed’s new bird sculpture nests in a Peckham car park
Bold Tendencies in south London unveils small-scale commission by the Algerian artist known for his provocative pieces
Palestinian Museum opens—with no exhibition or collection
The inaugural show is postponed, but a satellite exhibition will go ahead this month in Beirut
British Museum dips its toes into world of underwater archaeology
London institution’s new show explores Egypt’s lost cities<br>