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Racial and gender inequality come under scrutiny in the art world

Arts Council England launches study asking artists to share the challenges and barriers they face in their careers

All of UK’s publicly owned art to go online

Sculptures and works on paper to be added to database of oil paintings

Chelmsford Museum gold coin theft linked to national security alert

Museums across UK were warned about gang making “reconnaissance visits”

Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar faces down Donald Trump over immigration

Monument on US-Mexico border incorporates parts of fence separating the two countries

Met Breuer takes the long view of contemporary art

Inaugural exhibitions at new outpost will avoid the usual suspects

France to get its first Moroccan Cultural Centre in 2018

The project will be funded entirely by the Kingdom of Morocco

'Dear New Yorkers, tear down those walls': Tania Bruguera to stage public vote on immigration

Referendum performance is part of the Rubin Foundation’s political art show When Artists Speak Truth…

Tate photo show gives insight into ‘the vision of the new Tate Modern’

Performing for the Camera is an in-depth survey of the photography of performance

Cabaret Voltaire, birthplace of Dada, could be yours for $13m

Zurich theatre where the movement was founded 100 years ago is facing an uncertain future

Who will build Berlin’s new museum of the 20th century?

Ten proposals have made it to the next round of architecture competition

Political artist Pyotr Pavlensky pulled from Russia’s top art prize

Removal of artist best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square has drawn criticism

Creative Time’s new director Katie Hollander outlines her vision

More ‘dream projects’, educational outreach and maybe a tv show

Brother of Spanish dealer in alleged forgery ring could be extradited to US

Court ruling must get government approval before Jesus Angel Bergantinos Diaz can be sent to New York for trial

Ai Weiwei wraps Berlin landmark in lifejackets in memory of drowned refugees

Mayor of Lesbos donated 14,000 vests to the Chinese artist and activist who created installation outside city’s Konzerthaus

Audrey Azoulay replaces Fleur Pellerin as France’s culture minister

In a surprise cabinet reshuffle, President Hollande’s cultural advisor takes the top government spot

Grand Palais revamp could leave Paris’s biggest shows without a roof

What will happen to key culture events held at the site, including Monumenta artist commission and Fiac fair?

Austrian attaché has Russian Revolution on his mind

Collector seeks artists to respond to the events of 1917 and their legacy today in Russia

Settlement reached with both parties in Knoedler case

Agreement came before owner and former director could testify, but the trial gripped the New York art world

Art—coming soon to a cinema near you

Short films by major artists will be screened unannounced before regular features in the UK

Rotterdam museum to rent out public space to wealthy collectors

Visitors to the new open storage facility can tour private collections—and there could even be a freeport

De Soles reach settlement with Ann Freedman—but Knoedler case could still go on

Mid-trial deal comes just a day before the former gallery director was scheduled to take the stand

More than 500 cultural objects returned to Ecuador

Ancient artefacts and colonial-era art repatriated from Argentina and Spain

Chinese artist retracts forgery claims about disputed Hairdressing paintings

In a letter to a lawyer, Geng Jianyi calls his previous dismissal of the works as authentic a “failure of memory”

Knoedler asked forensic conservator to revise ‘negative’ report

James Martin of Orion Analytical says the gallery asked him to remove key findings, like a pigment that was not in use at the time of painting

Handel and Hendrix duet under one roof

Jimi Hendrix's former girlfriend helped the Handel museum restore the rock musician's home next door

Raphael’s drawings to go on show in Oxford and Vienna

Ashmolean Museum and Albertina will join forces for exhibition in 2017