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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
Blind, 90-year-old son of Holocaust victims sues to find his family’s art
David Toren has filed a petition in New York State Supreme Court asking the Berlin auction house Villa Grisebach to reveal the buyers of works sold there
Former managing director of the Centre Pompidou pleads guilty to misuse of public funds
Agnès Saal’s taxi bills raised an outcry in France over spending by high-level civil servants
Recession takes a heavy toll on Brazil’s art scene
Some museums have closed their doors as other ailing institutions look to the Olympics to raise funds
Armory week brushes downbeat sentiments aside to ring up sales
The Armory Show and New York’s satellite fairs prove US market is holding up
West London gallery hub to keep V&A company
£15m development in South Kensington’s “Albertopolis” cultural zone will house shows and projects
