A former brewery on a canal is being refurbished to house a new non-profit contemporary art space

Full funding will go to the museum if it raises an additional $45m on its own

Our editor-at-large Gareth Harris reports live on events in the UAE

Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami was given a 15-year sentence for reciting a poem in support of the Arab Spring on YouTube

But London's Royal College of Art among biggest winners as Chancellor presses on with austerity measures

Jewel sold in UK for £300,000 last month has left the country—but did it have an export licence?

Artist hopes to refocus critical discussions onto the work itself with an exhibition featuring 15 of his compatriots at Qatar Museums

Federal Security Service is investigating several officials and businessmen over missing funds for state-sponsored heritage restoration projects

Director and trustees worried that show would anger Thatcher government after Britain officially boycotted Moscow Games

Façade was meant to feature in quincentenary lightshow, but event organisers are adamant that show will go on

Star attraction of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum has suffered from pigment deterioration and addition of later varnish

Plans to send works from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' extensive collection to Russia were put on indefinite hold after insurance costs shot up by $1m

Decade of renovation ends with marathon opening for expanded gallery

Museum layoffs and project suspensions gather pace in Qatar as oil revenue collapse continues

The 2016 March meeting kicks off tomorrow and will discuss education, participation and engagement in the Middle East and beyond

Hermitage director reveals "circuitous" route that marble sculpture took from London to St Petersburg to avoid Greek seizure

Artist helps launch Studiomakers with appeal to property developers and politicians

Embassy offers to take ownership of the sculpture and lend it to British Museum and Egyptian Museum in Cairo

The Russian institution’s collection of Palmyra artefacts could be used to reconstruct the ancient Syrian city<br>

Museum pledges to improve access to Royal Photographic Collection in controversial deal to move it from Bradford

Increasingly complex reorganisation is ambitious—and far from finished

Artist is best known for her large-scale sculptural projects made from plywood, tape, cement and other inexpensive materials

The first organisation of its kind in Europe to provide training and support for artists and their heirs

Abstract Expressionism experts forced to watch what they write and say

Ronald Lauder says works sold by refugees to fund flight from Nazis should be treated the same as looted art<br>

Some staff question president Guy Cogeval's fitness to keep the post

Interview with the National Gallery's new director, who wants to "ramp up" the exhibition programme and rewrite deal between it and the Tate

Deciphering artist’s scrawl was “no easy task”, says his son<br>