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UN advisers launch appeal to stop execution of Palestinian artist in Saudi Arabia

Ashraf Fayadh’s death sentence for apostasy is “unlawful”, experts say

Knoedler Gallery settles lawsuit over fake Willem de Kooning

Collector John Howard bought the forgery from now defunct gallery for $4m

New contemporary art centre in Jamaica to open with Basquiat show

Art adviser Rachael Barrett plans network of spaces across the Caribbean

Danh Vo and Dutch collector settle legal battle

The Danish-Vietnamese artist will no longer have to create a “large and impressive” work for Bert Kreuk

British art dealer Leslie Waddington dies at 81

A loyal champion of British painters, he helped bring post-war American art to London

Can polar bear hair authenticate contested Pollock painting?

Estate of Jackson Pollock’s mistress builds new case around forensic analysis

Peckham rejects plan to turn car park into artists’ studios

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

US presidents and Taiwan back Eisenhower Memorial

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

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The mathematician, the theologian, the poet and the soldier-artist make the case for art

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

Arles photo festival comes to south China

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

Paris institutions protected by armed guards after attacks

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

Palestinian Museum partnership draws criticism

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

Could Leonardo’s Bella Principessa be Greenhalgh’s Bolton Sally?

Convicted UK forger claims to have faked the Renaissance drawing

British Museum to stage exhibition of Egyptian underwater archaeology

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

How the Barnes Foundation is reinventing itself

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

Next stop for Tehran’s Modern art collection: the Maxxi in Rome

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

UN Climate Change Conference: Paris's hottest art projects

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

Rijksmuseum hangs visceral works by Anish Kapoor alongside Dutch Old Masters

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

Russia breaks cultural ties with Turkey

Move comes amid rising tensions over downed Russian fighter jet

Prisoner of Cultural Revolution receives posthumous celebration

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

Spanish museum squabble over Old Masters ends

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

Carrie Mae Weems to pay tribute to Obama’s response to racist shootings in Charleston

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