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More foreigners than Brits to visit UK’s top museums

Boost for tourism as rising numbers of visitors flock to London and beyond

ARCHIVE Mapplethorpe’s images retain power to disturb

Los Angeles shows will include provocative portraits but not images of children

MFA Boston is latest museum to shed its art school

The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), is to merge with the city’s Tufts University this summer

Tania Bruguera to take up residence at South London Gallery?

Project is organised with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York

Artistic freedom comes under attack

Pressure to self-censor grows in the West as authorities clamp down across the Middle East

Bombing at Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square

The explosion was in one of the city’s most popular tourist areas, close to the Obelisk of Theodosius, the Blue Mosque and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

Design museum rises in China—with a little help from the V&A

Partnership with state-owned conglomerate is a first for the London museum

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Sotheby’s pays top dollar for the art world’s best address book

Auction house buys art advisers in surprise $85m deal

Artists do their bit to mark great battles of 1916

Global legacy of conflict reflected in latest 14-18 Now commissions

It’s reigning men in Los Angeles

New show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art focuses on the oft-overlooked history of men's fashion

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Why is the art market like a carousel?

Academic Olav Velthuis says growing a scene is “hard and tedious; but once it gets going it gets easier”

Louvre inks historic deal with Iran to cooperate on archaeological digs, exhibitions and exchanges

A French team could return to sites like Susa, where the museum uncovered the Code of Hammurabi