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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

Jackie Chan’s bronzes draw critics and vandals to new Taipei museum

Anti-China activists throw paint on replica statues donated by the actor to new $250m branch of the National Palace Museum in south Taiwan

Russian protest artist held in Moscow psychiatric hospital

The Serbsky Center may also host hearings next week in criminal trial against Pyotr Pavlensky

New programme aims to train future leaders of artist foundations

Seminar to be held in New York at the offices of influential philanthropic groups, including the Roy Lichtenstein and Joan Mitchell foundations

Switzerland puts up 2m SFr to track down Nazi loot in its museums

The federal office of culture is encouraging museums to research the provenance of works in their collections

Reina Sofía to mark 80th anniversary of Picasso’s Guernica

Show in 2017 will shed new light on the great anti-war mural