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German museums under threat as cities seek to balance their books

Local authorities are targeting cultural spending as a way of cutting their deficits but are facing vocal opposition

Montblanc steps up its art patronage

Luxury brand recruits curators to re-energise and expand corporate collection

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Twice the size and seven storeys high: the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is ready for lift-off

Galleries filled with blue-chip gifts plus highlights of the Fisher Collection will greet visitors when museum reopens <br>

Liverpool Biennial will put Ancient Greece into contemporary art show

Port city's collection of antiquities and neoclassical architecture inspires international artists <br>

Tino Sehgal to bring live art to Marrakech

Artist’s choreographed sequences are inspired by activities in city’s historic Jemaa el-Fna square

François Pinault to realise long-held ambition of opening Paris museum

Billionaire collector strikes deal with city’s mayor to convert historic stock exchange

Long Museum founders to open third space in just four years

Chinese collectors Wang Wei and Liu Yiqian look beyond Shanghai to vast but lesser-known city of Chongqing

Exhibitions mark 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster

Shows in Prague and Chicago expose the fallout of the world's worst nuclear accident

Myrna Ayad appointed new director of Art Dubai

She replaces Antonia Carver, who ran the fair for six years

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Turner and The Fighting Temeraire chosen for new £20 note

Bank of England's choice delights the Tate, National Gallery and Margate's Turner Contemporary<br>

Qatar Museums shortlists architects for Art Mill project

Doha’s waterfront grain silos to house vast gallery but plan to include collection store dropped

Damien Hirst and Tate reject speculation that formaldehyde fumes were risky

Italian scientists who monitored artist's 2012 show at Tate Modern found levels in excess of EU regulations

Top five London gardens designed by Capability Brown

Three hundred years after his birth, the imprint of the renowned landscape designer can be admired without leaving the UK’s capital city

Who gets what when artists and galleries split up?

When artists such as Yayoi Kusama and Marc Quinn sever ties with their galleries, it raises questions about assets, shows and production costs

Pinault Foundation celebrates ten years in Venice

Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana have attracted more than 2 million visitors over the past decade, and Parisians may soon see more of the billionaire’s collection too

Palmyra arch destroyed by Isil rises over Trafalgar Square

Replica is going up in London today, then New York and Dubai

Kerry James Marshall’s epic black superhero

The Chicago artist would like to turn his comic into an animated film on the scale of Star Wars

New contemporary art museum takes shape in Beirut

Shortlist of 13 architects announced for the planned institution near the city’s National Museum

Mark Bradford to represent the US at the 57th Venice Biennale

Pavilion’s curator calls Bradford ‘the leading American abstract painter of his generation’

Former director of scandal-beset Knoedler Gallery breaks her silence

In an exclusive interview, Ann Freedman explains her version of events in the ongoing forgery case that engulfed the gallery

Revamped Kunstmuseum Basel to reveal lesser-known Jackson Pollock

Following the opening of its new building this weekend, the Swiss museum will show the abstract artist’s figurative work

Museums and galleries turn to the work of Gordon Parks

In the ten years since the artist’s death, interest in his work has steadily grown

US Senate blocks the import of art and artefacts from Syria

Bill aimed at ending Islamic State’s rampant looting of archaeological sites is passed in unanimous vote