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Neil MacGregor announces last acquisitions before retiring from the British Museum

Outgoing director’s portrait by Wolfgang Tillmans and a Lampedusa Cross among works added to collection

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Human rights group raises fears over artists imprisoned in Tunisia

Five men have been sentenced under Law52, the anti-drugs legislation enforced by the country’s former president

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Margaret Thatcher collection snapped up at Christie’s auction

Former prime minister’s belongings attract bidders from 41 countries

Speed Art Museum asks artists to dig into Kentucky history

Five artists are creating site-specific commissions for Louisville ahead of museum's reopening

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Swiss scholar Corinne Diserens to curate Taipei Biennial

Tenth edition will focus on the role of museums and institutional bureaucracy

Getty brings Latin American artists to Los Angeles

Foundation is providing cash for residencies in the city ahead of 2017 programme of exhibitions and events

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Venice Biennale’s Iraq Pavilion show to travel to Belgium and Brazil

Invisible Beauty exhibition features works by five Iraqi artists

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Artistic director of Also Known As Africa resigns over decision to cancel

Timothée Chaillou not consulted over postponement of new Paris art fair

An Impressionist garden grows in the Bronx

The New York Botanical Garden plans to celebrate its 125th anniversary with an exhibition dedicated to American Impressionism

Venice mayor threatens to sell a Chagall or Klimt

The cash-strapped city is considering selling "non-Venetian" works from its museums to pay for public services such as schools

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Art world mourns murder of Indian artist Hema Upadhyay

Internationally acclaimed artist has had shows at the Pompidou, the Ullens Center and the Mori Art Museum

Lina Bo Bardi's radical displays return to Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Modernist architect's glass easels, which make paintings seemingly float, were removed in 1990s<br> <br>

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The Art Newspaper's 12 best Christmas gifts

We trawled through museum shops, galleries and bookstores to bring you the finest arty delights

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Regional UK museums given boost to acquire works by leading contemporary British artists

Contemporary Art Society and Sfumato Foundation launch Great Works scheme to combat London bias

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Daniel Silver to create new sculpture celebrating work of Oxford nurses

Three Figures will be part of public art scheme around former Radcliffe Infirmary

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Katrina Palmer recreates London’s infamous Necropolitan Line at the Henry Moore Institute

Train connected Waterloo station with Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey

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Jack Persekian steps down as director of new Palestinian Museum

Institution is due to open near Jerusalem next year

Guangzhou and Shenzhen flex their biennial muscles

Major exhibitions open in south China, showing there is more to Pearl River Delta than vast factories

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Judgment against Max Ernst expert Werner Spies overturned in appeal

French court has reversed a decision fining the scholar for authenticating a fake work of art produced by Wolfgang Beltracchi

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Korean artists protest appointment of former Barcelona museum director due to censorship concerns

Bartomeu Marí—the new director of MMCA in Seoul—stepped down earlier this year over controversial sculpture exhibit

V&A’s new European Galleries paint a broader picture of history

After years of delay, completed refurbishment expands understanding of the period from 1600 to 1815

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Pussy Riot among artists behind new charity building shelters in Calais for refugees

Refugee Response Foundation, founded by artist duo The Connor Brothers, is also due to help with legal and living costs

Climate change activists to ‘seed bomb’ Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Turbine Hall installation at Tate Modern

Organisers of Deadline Festival are protesting the museum’s sponsorship deal with BP