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There is more to Malevich’s Black Square than a hidden racist joke, Moscow curators reveal

Tretyakov museum may invite foreign experts to conduct further research on the radical work

Barcelona boosted by new contemporary art initiative

Fundació Gaspar will host a major exhibition of works by Paul McCarthy in 2016

Guerrilla Girls take aim at ‘cartels of collectors’

Feminist art activists plan “anti-billionaire” campaign to highlight discrimination, which kicks off in Minneapolis

Milwaukee Art Museum pulls off expansion from depths of slump

Mould flourished, floors buckled and ceilings leaked in the two buildings that housed the museum's permanent collection when it announced $34m renovation in 2009 at the height of the recession

UK partners with India for major cross-cultural festival in 2017

The British Museum and British Library will contribute to events across the country

Paris museums reopen and security increased after attacks

Artist, architect and critic among those killed by terrorists

No costumes needed for Xavier Le Roy’s new work

Arts patron John Kaldor helps bring six-hour performance to Sydney

Migration and climate change the focus of Palermo-based Manifesta in 2018

City’s outspoken mayor is backing the biennial, which could transform the island’s identity

Artists donate works to help pay for their Drawing Center shows

Non-profit gallery has turned to artists as "philanthropic community has become less supportive"

Modern art museum group in turmoil after three board members resign

Leading directors oppose Cimam president at centre of censorship row in Barcelona

London dealer partners with South African gallery in Chelsea

John Martin and Everard Read galleries opened Circa London this week

Houston show looks at racial injustice from a white perspective

The Abolitionists to include controversial installation about Michael Brown shooting by artist Ti-Rock Moore

Memorial to Sinai plane crash victims planned by sculptor of New Jersey’s Tear of Grief

Zurab Tsereteli says he has been approached to design a monument in St Petersburg and will do it for free

Russian performance artist sets fire to Federal Security Service building in Moscow

Petr Pavlensky has been taken into custody by police for his latest piece protesting state surveillance

Arab artists hit the US campaign trail

Culture bus heads to Washington in bid to change attitudes to the Middle East

We’ll store your artefacts, US tells Syrian museums

New framework stresses return principle but some fear that traffickers in illicit objects could abuse it

Matisse portrait claim rejected by National Gallery

Greta Moll’s heirs argue painting was “misappropriated” in 1947

Italian Renaissance panels reunited after centuries apart

Antonello da Messina’s triptych brought together in 15-year loan agreement

London mayor: ‘if the Americans can put a man on the moon, they can build a museum in Stratford’

Boris Johnson says Smithsonian Institution still on board as capital’s planned cultural quarter on former Olympics site gets £45m in donations

Emdash Award relaunches to focus exclusively on performance

Austrian collector previously supported Frieze Projects with her prize

Guggenheim gets digital with first online show

Participants, including Douglas Coupland, invest in a simulated stock market shaped by technological developments

Turner Prize-nominated collective, Assemble, plans to help convert Peckham car park into artists’ studios

Proposal is one of three being considered by Southwark Council in south London next week

Spirit of Zero Group rekindled in Duesseldorf

Artists’ foundation takes over former factory that served as Otto Piene’s fire studio—and party centre

Berlin’s most-visited museum gets a makeover

Renovation of the Pergamon Museum expected to be complete by 2019, with a new wing dedicated to Egyptian art to open by 2026

Antony Gormley to confront Hong Kong’s raw nerves by placing sculptures on its rooftops

Artist links delayed arrival of Event Horizon with pro-democracy movement and taboo subject of suicide

Is it plagiarism or is it ‘shanzhai’?

Yayoi Kusama and Random International are latest victims of China’s copycats

Reopened Duomo’s original façade reconstructed in Florence

Full-scale re-creation is part of ambitious new display of masterpieces at Museo dell’Opera del Duomo