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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

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>

Italy squanders €150m in EU grants

Sicily and Naples miss out on culture and tourism grants to protect crumbling cultural heritage sites due to chronic mismanagement

Seventeen paintings stolen from Verona museum retrieved in Ukraine

Works by Tintoretto, Mantegna and Rubens were hidden in plastic bags near the Moldovan border

Helsinki welcomes time travellers—and offers a glimpse into the heartbreak of others

City Museum re-opens this week with special projects after €13m development

Members of Egyptian performance group arrested for mocking president

Performers face charges of inciting protests and insulting state institutions

French artist François Morellet has died aged 90

Co-founder of kinetic and optical art collective Grav worked with neon for the past six decades

Stefan Simchowitz settles bitter legal case with Ibrahim Mahama

Los Angeles agent and Dublin dealer Jonathan Ellis King sued artist for declaring jute sack works were not authentic

The four major challenges that await the British Museum’s new director

With big boots to fill, Hartwig Fischer has his work cut out at an institution that pulls in nearly seven million visitors each year

Yale restores Louis Kahn’s vision for his Modernist landmark

Decade of research underpins groundbreaking conservation plan at US university’s centre for British art