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Secret flight path of the Parthenon statue
Hermitage director reveals "circuitous" route that marble sculpture took from London to St Petersburg to avoid Greek seizure
Antony Gormley backs campaign to create affordable studios across London
Artist helps launch Studiomakers with appeal to property developers and politicians
Egyptian ambassador proposes plan to share Sekhemka
Embassy offers to take ownership of the sculpture and lend it to British Museum and Egyptian Museum in Cairo
‘This is living antiquity’: the director of the Hermitage wants to rebuild Palmyra
The Russian institution’s collection of Palmyra artefacts could be used to reconstruct the ancient Syrian city<br>
Opposition grows to transfer of historic photo collection to V&A
Museum pledges to improve access to Royal Photographic Collection in controversial deal to move it from Bradford
Full steam ahead for Italy’s museums reform
Increasingly complex reorganisation is ambitious—and far from finished
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