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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

Roger Hiorns hopes to see lots of planes buried around the world

UK artist says jetliners could be interred in the US, South Africa and the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea

Storm clouds gather over German art market

As Art Cologne opens today, some experts fear that forthcoming legislation protecting cultural assets could be nail in the coffin

Expert claims painting uncovered in a Toulouse attic is by Caravaggio

If it turns out to be real, it would be the biggest discovery of the artist’s work in almost 25 years

Fifty editions on, can Art Cologne regain top billing?

Prospects are brighter for the world’s first art fair, which opens this week, thanks to its director Daniel Hug

Bipartisan bill to remove hurdles for heirs seeking Holocaust-era art

The legislation, sponsored by presidential hopeful Ted Cruz among others, comes as the race for the US election heats up

Artist opens subversive supermarket in Shanghai

Xu Zhen has recreated a Chinese mini-mart, but the packages have been emptied of their products

Is the British Museum heading east to London's Olympic park?

Smithsonian trustees due to meet today to decide whether to open satellite in Stratford <br>

Prestigious Vincent Award suspended after legal row between artist Danh Vo and collector Bert Kreuk

Two artists had pulled out of the prize, with one citing the dispute as a reason

Panama Papers expose art world's offshore secrets

Leaked documents reveal owners of "looted" Modigliani, how a UK billionaire guaranteed a milestone auction and links to the Chinese elite

What to see at SP Arte

The crowds were thronging even though sales were moderate

Yale hosts United Nations colloquium on preservation of heritage sites

University presidents and faculty from around 20 nations are due to participate

Five to see at MiArt in Milan

The thoughtful fair has more to offer than Italy’s Postwar market darlings

Revealed: how Gauguin longed for European sunflowers in Polynesia

The Art Newspaper finds the artist’s receipt for French seeds from a top Parisian supplier

USC Seven artists get their ‘graduate’ shows in Los Angeles

New alternative space PSSST will organise exhibitions of students who dropped out of the Roski School of Art and Design MFA programme in protest last year

Mark Bradford puts the US Constitution into new embassy in London

Vast, site-specific work to incorporate entire text of historic document

Marina Abramovic 'dreams’ of premiering Seven Deaths film at the Royal Academy

Video installation will re-enact the death scenes of tragic heroines once performed by opera diva Maria Callas

Cairo art festival opens amid cultural clampdown

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival is taking place in Egyptian capital but also Beirut

Panama Papers: Dmitry Rybolovlev used offshore company to hide art from wife, leaked documents reveal

Russian billionaire transferred ownership of paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh and Monet to firm based in British Virgin Islands

Student sculptors revive the faces of cold-case victims

Forensic busts based on 3D printed skulls have led to at least one positive DNA identification

Pompidou to pop up in South Korea and China

After Malaga, Asia will be the next to get branded exhibition spaces

US museums spent $5bn to expand as economy shrank

Glitzy buildings mean more visitors—but they could conceal a financial timebomb

Sekhemka to leave the UK as export licence deadline passes

A matching offer was not made in time to keep the Egyptian statute, controversially sold off by Northampton Museum in 2014, in the country