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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
The Buck Stopped Here: everything is rosy in the Royal Academy garden but it looks like it could be a nuclear summer
Reina Sofía to mark 80th anniversary of Picasso’s Guernica
Show in 2017 will shed new light on the great anti-war mural
Tate director backs Art Fund’s call for UK export licence reform after Rembrandt fiasco
Charity will halt public campaigns to save art after another buyer withdraws export application
The really white cube: New York’s culture groups less diverse than they think
Survey conducted by the city’s cultural affairs department finds workforce does not match up with demographics
Little Sun king Olafur Eliasson to show at Versailles this spring
The Danish-Icelandic artist says he plans to make use of water and light in his presentation at the French palace
Top US collector takes the stand in Knoedler trial
Domenico De Sole bought a fake Rothko from the gallery in 2004
The Buck Stopped Here: set sail from London to Bristol for this week’s top shows including Elizabeth Peyton and John Akomfrah
Christie’s and Sotheby’s battle for the middle market
Auction houses rethink priorities amid global economic uncertainty
Ai Weiwei cancels two shows in Denmark in protest over new asylum seeker law
Danish parliament has approved plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees entering the country
Painting by Rembrandt’s favourite pupil given UK export bar
Government hopes a public collection can match £5.2m asking price for Ferdinand Bol’s Portrait of a Boy
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
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
Lebanese authorities backtrack over high-profile curator's passport renewal
Christine Tohmé says her application was suspended because of ties to culture sector
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
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





























