Train connected Waterloo station with Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey

Institution is due to open near Jerusalem next year

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art adviser Rachael Barrett plans network of spaces across the Caribbean

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

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

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

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