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UK museums on heightened alert against attacks
Arts Council England and the Scottish Council on Archives warn of increased theft danger
Picasso Museum reborn—again
After a troubled renovation, Paris museum unveils rehang and new exhibition programme with a contemporary twist
How to document heritage sites under threat
Project aims to create virtual archives using 3D scanning technology
Cultural co-operation a cornerstone of Chinese presidential visit
But a visit to Ai Weiwei Royal Academy show is not on the agenda
Three years late but with the entire human story in its sights
Revamp of Musée de l’Homme will chart humanity’s story from prehistory to the present—and future
Alberto Burri’s Grande Cretto finally completed after 30 years
The massive Land Art project is a memorial to the Sicilian town of Gibellina, ruined by a 1968 earthquake
Polly wants a Rembrandt
UK culture minister defers export licence for portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet
The Art Newspaper gets papal blessing
Vatican latest venue to host our 25th anniversary celebration
Frank Stella's synagogue series re-united at Frieze
Marianne Boesky Gallery is showing key works he made as a young artist
German photographer Hilla Becher dies at 81
The artist worked with her husband for nearly 50 years
Art is a weapon as Russia and US fight cultural war
Relations worse than ever after federal US judge imposes $43.7m fine over Jewish Orthodox library
V&A’s Indian textiles have stories to tell
Shirt inscribed with Koranic verses was kept in storage for 80 years, while appliquéd wall hanging was found dumped in a New York street
What Hockney thinks of Van Gogh
A Post-Impressionist perspective makes our world a more exciting place
It’s The Art Newspaper’s first quarter century this month
From one room in Fleet St to an international network
Private fortunes drive Beirut’s museum boom
Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano and David Adjaye get involved as donors step in to fill the funding gap
Southern barbarians rise to fight again
Rediscovered Japanese panels on show after two years of painstaking restoration in specialist studio
Goya inspires Tuymans to conjure spectre of Isil in new work
Belgian artist’s paintings for exhibition in Qatar address “the ongoing story of violence and ignorance”
Artists should be ‘feared by the powerful’, says former Greek finance minister
In his keynote speech at the Moscow Biennale, Yanis Varoufakis discussed the perils of cultural collapse and why the euro is doomed—from an artistic standpoint
Celebrating the civilisations Isil seeks to destroy
Detroit Institute of Arts unveils new gallery devoted to the Ancient Middle East
Artists protest as refugees left stranded
While Europe’s politicians squabble, leading artists mobilise support for the thousands fleeing conflict and facing another winter in camps
The Art Newspaper turns 25: a story for every year
And celebrations supported by Volkswagen
The Broad: as big as its founders’ influence
The art in Los Angeles’ new private museum is as titanic as the funding
Artist will show where there’s dirt there’s art in Tate Modern
Abraham Cruzvillegas plans to turn Turbine Hall into green space