News

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

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 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