Dismay that council’s decision will stop Bold Tendencies building on its success in south London

Frank Gehry revises controversial design but the family of the soldier and statesman remains unimpressed

Speculation in art is taken for granted today, so does art still have a higher purpose? What is its role in these troubling, dangerous times? On 28 October, The Art Newspaper celebrated its 25th anniversary with an investigation at the British Museum of what art is for. A famous lawyer interrogated the witnesses for art, while the museum’s director played the part of the judge and summed up at the end. This is a shortened version of what they said

Photographer Rong Rong brings touch of Provence to home province of Fuijan

Art world divided over best response in weekend after 13 November terrorist atrocities

Not everyone is happy about the Institut du Monde Arabe's decision to co-found a museum in the West Bank

Convicted UK forger claims to have faked the Renaissance drawing

Next year’s show will focus on recent discoveries at the mouth of the Nile

Philadelphia-based private museum lays plans to show non-Western art, commission contemporary works and open up to scholars

Italian museum is latest in line to borrow works by artists including Pollock and Picasso

Recipients include the Ullens Center, K11 and M+

As world leaders meet to tackle global warming, we look at how artists are turning up the heat across the French capital

British artist says aftermath of suicide bombings are on his mind as new works go on show in Amsterdam

Move comes amid rising tensions over downed Russian fighter jet

Mu Xin Art Museum honours artist and poet whose work bridged Chinese and Western cultures

Works will not be transferred from the Prado to new Royal Collections museum

Artist's work, which will be performed in June, is meant as a gift to the US president

Institution is one of four in a new Doha development, the state’s latest bid to rebrand itself as a culture hub

Chancellor George Osborne finds money for British Museum and Victoria and Albert to display objects now in store

Sonia Boyce to cre ate database of works by artists of African and Asian descent held in UK public collections

“People’s parliament” built for revolutionaries fighting Isil in northern Syria

Cultural figures take a stance against court ruling condemning Ashraf Fayadh for apostasy

56th edition drew record crowds over a longer period