Hirshhorn holds preliminary talks but Berlin first in queue to borrow works by artists such as Gauguin, Pollock, Rothko, Picasso and Bacon

Arts professionals are generally optimistic about the country’s new leadership—although some worry promised changes could be too little too late

While government moves to limit right to strike by reclassifying museums as “essential public services” on a par with schools and hospitals

The vast installation at the Grand Palais reflects the changing world order

Jean-Antoine Houdon's sculpture of the goddess Diana was taken by the Nazis during the Second World War

Our pick of the inaugural biennial, which opened to towering expectations

Institutions are burgeoning in the face of sanctions and currency devaluation

Interest grows in younger generation active in Tehran’s lively art scene and the Iranian diaspora

Natural history museum is more receptive than city’s art spaces

Police say it is an offence to view the works seized from Graham Ovenden

Archaeologist says climate change could result in more ancient objects resurfacing in the far North

CT scans reveal secrets of Field Museum’s Peruvian and Egyptian treasures before they are sent on the road

New banner works began as a performance, while artists plan to record 3,500 “fuckosophies” on vinyl

Sam Thorne takes the reins after joining Tate St Ives only last year

The Russian arts patron credits her microbiologist mother for an interest in science and technology

Neil MacGregor sums up the evidence in wide-ranging inquisition into the role of art

European Union climbs down over plans to ban cadmium paint pigment

Iraqi archaeologists to be trained in reconstruction of heritage sites under scheme funded by £3m government grant

€2m restoration of eight marble outer walls took 21 months

Painting’s 19-year-old subject lined up as “poster boy” for the Holburne Museum’s centenary