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Ghana gains first commercial gallery for contemporary art
Institutional boost for country’s rising art scene, but still only a handful of local collectors
Crowdfunding captures the art world’s imagination
Big-name artists and institutions are using Kickstarter to fund their projects
Talking about art in Isil times
Under the leadership of Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, the March Meeting in Sharjah did not shy away from the pain, extremism and corruption of the world today
A month of legal ups and downs at Christie’s
Two Indian sculptures were seized from Christie’s, New York ahead of Asia Week
Indians and Pakistanis work together to realise Partition Museum
Project leaders announce fundraising goals before conference in Delhi
Museums beware: Irish gang that stole £50m of antiquities is still on the loose
Fourteen members of “Rathkeale Rovers” gang convicted, but many remain at large
A depressed art market: not a bad time to die
US tax court’s valuation revision reduces estate taxes for heirs
Groundbreaking exhibition celebrates the women of a famously ‘macho’ preserve
Spotlight on the overshadowed female artists who helped to forge one of the mid-20th-century’s key art movements
Leading architect Zaha Hadid dies aged 65
Iraqi-born designer was the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize
Italy to ramp up security at famous culture sites after Brussels attacks
Culture ministry has pledged €300m to safeguard museums and monuments including the Colosseum, Uffizi and Pompeii
Latino and Latin American artists to meet in Pacific Standard Time
New research leads curators to rip up the rulebook ahead of the Getty’s ambitious PST: LA/LA event
Van Gogh’s The Night Café to stay at Yale after US Supreme Court rejects appeal
Decision puts to rest lengthy legal battle started by Pierre Konowaloff in 2008
Isil driven out of Palmyra
Early reports indicate that ancient sites that survived the terrorist group’s destruction are in “good condition”
German collector Julia Stoschek to open satellite space in Berlin
Renovated Czech cultural centre in Mitte will house temporary exhibitions
Smears, counterclaims and lawsuits—the tangled web surrounding Prince of Liechtenstein’s Cranach
Old Master works by Orazio Gentileschi, Frans Hals and Diego Velázquez drawn into dispute