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Is Lady Gaga the face of 21st-century Dada?

Curators of centenary exhibition on the movement want to baptise the pop star in a pool

Top US prosecutor has art market in his sights

Actor Nicolas Cage’s return of dinosaur skull is latest victory in Preet Bharara’s campaign to police the art and antiquities trade

Getty displays Medieval illuminated pages after legal battle finally ends

Manuscripts are part of a table of contents from the Zeyt’un Gospels, a Medieval Armenian bible

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Top Sydney gallerist launches blistering attack on the art world

Evan Hughes, son of founder Ray, is closing the Hughes Gallery and running for office

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Lebanese authorities backtrack over high-profile curator's passport renewal

Christine Tohmé says her application was suspended because of ties to culture sector

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How art is keeping alive the memory of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution

Five years after the uprisings in Cairo, the spirit of the protests lives on in cultural projects

How university museums bridge the gap between art and science

The Berkeley Art Museum, which reopens this month, joins host of institutions looking to cross disciplinary boundaries

Lords put pressure on UK government to sign Hague Convention this year

Move could allow cultural heritage experts to set up Blue Shield headquarters in London

French museum reunites head with decapitated Khmer statue

The Musée Guimet has returned the ancient sculpture to Cambodia as part of a five-year loan agreement

Isil extremists destroy Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery

The destruction, which went unreported for 16 months, raises fears that other sites have been attacked

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Leila Alaoui, a talent cut short by terrorists in Burkina Faso

33-year-old's works were on show at Maison européenne de la Photographie shortly before she was killed

Listen up! Gardner Museum plans sound art show

Eight artist present works in the galleries, gardens and nearby train station in Boston

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Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying

Installation accompanies death objects exhibition

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Palestinian Museum to open in May

Inaugural show will focus on the objects that individual Palestinians would never part with

South Korea tops global list for private art museums

Private Art Museum Report highlights rapid rise of institutions across the world over the past decade

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Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results

162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder

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National Trust to restore fire-devastated Clandon Park

Original owners say shell should be demolished after 95% of the English Palladian mansion’s interior was destroyed

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Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital

Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic

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London’s emerging galleries host exhibitors from abroad

Condo event offers international colleagues an alternative to expensive art fairs

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Tate Modern names Frances Morris as new director

Chris Dercon to depart after opening of new extension

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Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash

Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”

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British construction boss to open new gallery in Ghana

Marwan Zakhem hopes to create a buzz around the burgeoning scene in the West African country with Gallery 1957

US collector and Dutch dealer reject Nazi loot claim

Heirs insist German-Jewish factory owner was forced to sell portrait by Gerrit Dou in 1933

Gagosian Gallery and Qataris wrangle over Picasso sculpture

New York law filings peek into the secretive dealings of private, multi-million-dollar international art sales

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Science fiction in the Holy Land

Artists Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind discuss how they are propelling Palestinians into an alternate reality