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Phyllida Barlow to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

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

How to handle fakes, copyright and catalogues raisonnés: Berlin institute offers tips for artists’ estates

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

Scholarly debate will be stifled after Knoedler

Abstract Expressionism experts forced to watch what they write and say

Swiss under pressure over art that Jews were forced to sell

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

Who will lead the Musée d’Orsay?

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

Gabriele Finaldi says why London's National Gallery can’t just stop at 1900

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

New books reveal Donald Judd’s words and ideas

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

Major restoration projects mark 50th anniversary of Venice and Florence floods

Save Venice and Friends of Florence are collaborating on the conservation of paintings and drawings in the two Italian cities

People of Geneva say ‘non’ to museum extension designed by Jean Nouvel

The proposal for the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is sent back to the drawing board after 54% vote against it<br>

Putin and Hollande back Paris show to reunite Modern master collection from Russia

Billionaire Bernard Arnault jumps at chance to present art seized by Lenin from Sergei Shchukin

Bonhams fires eight in Hong Kong including deputy chairman for Asia, Magnus Renfrew

The former Art Basel Hong Kong director says he was 'surprised and disappointed' by the decision

The importance of being an artist’s assistant

Memories of Warhol, Rauschenberg and Jack Goldstein, among others, inspire exhibition

The photographer of Aleppo who refuses to be defeated by the Syrian war

Issa Touma hopes to restage international photo festival in beleaguered city

Prado responds to Bosch downgrades by cancelling Dutch loans

Madrid museum still allows The Haywain to be centrepiece of blockbuster show in artist’s home town

The pioneers who took art out of the white cube

Artangel’s co-directors look back on 25 years of ambitious commissions

India’s rivers will flow through Kochi Biennale

Artist Sudarshan Shetty to curate exhibition that has drawn a million visitors

Imran Qureshi’s miniatures take over London’s Barbican—and a park in Bradford

The Pakistani artist will paint an Indian garden in Lister Park, drawing on the experiences of the British Indian army 100 years ago

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Israel Museum’s longstanding and well-connected director to step aside

In new role US-born James Snyder will continue to foster Jerusalem institution’s global relationships<br>

Gerhard Richter slams proposed closure of Germany's Museum Morsbroich

Plans to shut institution and sell its seminal Modern and contemporary works are "alarming" artist says