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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

Qatar opens slavery museum

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

UK’s national museums spared big cuts in government spending review

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

Black British artists to be written into art history

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

Dutch artist helps Kurds’ grassroots democracy grow

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

Art world rallies around artist sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia

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

Wim Delvoye goes to Tehran for surprise solo show

Belgian artist is at the forefront of improving relations between Iran and the West

Western curator explores works by Iranian artist in the heart of Tehran

Exhibition co-organised by Germano Celant signals Iran’s soft power offensive

German culture foundation angers Jewish groups over Holocaust dating

1935 sale of the Guelph Treasure predates the Holocaust “by several years”, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation said in US court papers

Robert Irwin to cover entire room in scrim for Hirshhorn show

Site-specific installation will form part of exhibition next year on the artist’s works from the 1960s

Catherine Opie creates monumental work for Los Angeles courthouse

Artist reveals how Yosemite Falls inspired her biggest public art project so far

Singapore National Gallery ready to spring into life

Colonial-era buildings transformed into space for Modern Southeast Asian art

Echoes of the First World War fill Tate Britain’s galleries

Susan Philipsz's sound installation features instruments used by the armed forces

Masterpieces stolen from Verona museum

Works by Tintoretto and Rubens among 17 pieces taken

Middle East looks further east as trend for Korean art continues to grow

Sharjah institution is first in the region to show works by Asian country’s contemporary artists

UK dealers donate major contemporary works to Whitworth gallery in Manchester

Ivor Braka and Thomas Dane hope gift will encourage greater support for culture in the regions

Exact location of Vermeer’s Little Street discovered

Pair of buildings depicted in painting identified as Tripe Gate in Delft

United Nations celebrates female Arab muralists

Centuries-old Saudi tradition of house painting is in danger of dying out

French ambassador backs Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch to go ahead in Paris

Artist hopes installation destined for the Place de la République before terrorist attacks will still form part of UN climate summit

Michael Govan’s advice to collectors: buy a curator lunch

Lacma director contributes to Frick Collection's panel on the long history collecting contemporary art