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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
Ugo Rondinone’s seven stone towers rise in the Las Vegas desert
Land art piece will remain on view for two years
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
Panama papers shed light on the art owners prefer to hide offshore
Paintings, properties and the backstory to a record-breaking auction—the revelations so far