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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

Meet the birdman of Brooklyn

Duke Riley has trained 2,000 pigeons to perform for Creative Time—and they took flight this weekend

Furniture retailer West Elm has designs on opening New York gallery

Company is collaborating with Uprise Art to create high-end store with contemporary art space

Russia’s Mariinsky Orchestra to play concert in Palmyra

Event will be held in amphitheater of ancient Syrian city recently recaptured from Isil militants

Lenin’s four-tonne head goes on show in Medieval Berlin Fortress

Monument of communist revolutionary was dug up for new permanent exhibition on statues of past political leaders

Iranian artist Atena Farghadani freed after more than a year in prison

Cartoonist had originally been sentenced to 12 years and nine months for criticising Iranian government

Di Donna Gallery to move to Madison Avenue

Venue is three times bigger but still on Upper East Side

Maurizio Cattelan and a donkey who's starred at the Met—it must be Frieze New York

Installation first shown in 1994 at Daniel Newburg Gallery—just for one day

Damien Hirst and Larry Gagosian reunite at Frieze New York

Gallery is re-representing the artist and is staging a solo show at the fair

Real estate mogul Aby Rosen reaches $7m tax settlement

Dispute centred on differing regimes for collecting and dealing in works of art

Hirshhorn Museum plans Kusama bonanza

Survey will feature six of the Japanese artist's Infinity Rooms

Lisson unveils new home under New York's High Line

Gallery's inaugural show is dedicated to the 100-year-old artist Carmen Herrera

Frieze New York opens to VIPs with a splash of Hollywood gold-dust

Fair's deal with entertainment mega-agent could secure its future—but some still need convincing