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Works by Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker to be shown for the first time in Saudi Arabia
British Council exhibition organised by six emerging Saudi women curators breaks new ground
Anglo(art)phile Hilton Als to organise series of contemporary shows at the Yale Center for British Art
American author and critic has chosen painters Celia Paul, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Peter Doig for successive solo exhibitions starting next year
Ai Weiwei’s refugee film Human Flow picked up by Amazon
The media production arm of the online retailer giant plans to release the documentary theatrically this autumn and stream it online
UK artist Alex Chinneck tears apart London building facade with new public work
Permanent wall piece is made from more than 4,000 bricks
Gold breastplate given to the Queen is unveiled at Buckingham Palace
Pre-Columbian treasure, presented by Panamanian president in 1953, could date from as early as AD700
The Met might return another ancient vase to Italy
A fourth-century BC terracotta krater was turned over to the DA’s office last week based on evidence it was looted
Thieves damage Koki Tanaka work at Sculpture Projects Münster
Police are investigating a burglary in the latest incident of crime at festival
Warburg Institute appoints the V&A’s Bill Sherman as director
Scholar says the library founded by Aby Warburg “badly needs some profile raising”
Miami patron Dennis Scholl becomes chief executive of ArtCenter/South Florida
Seasoned collector takes charge at the little-known non-profit, which has an $88m endowment
Christie’s to hold first Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art sale in London
Auction house cuts Dubai October series as it looks to “internationalise” the sector's market
Javier Pes to step down as editor of The Art Newspaper
He has been with the publication for almost a decade
What Thomas Campbell did next: ex-Met chief decamps to LA for research fellowship
As beneficiary of the Getty Rothschild award, the tapestries scholar will contemplate where the culture sector is heading
Arts group restages historic civil rights protest in New York
100 years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP organised the Silent Parade against racial discrimination
V&A to recapture glamour and high design of luxury ocean liners
Exhibition in 2018 will show fragment of Titanic first-class lounge and works by Le Corbusier and Stanley Spencer
New UK sculpture triennial gains momentum for 2019 opening
Yorkshire Sculpture International exhibition at four partner venues secures Arts Council backing
Italian high court gives green light to Colosseum archaeological park
Council of State says government can consider non-Italians for new director post
Turin’s new industrial arts complex prepares for 'big bang' launch
Artists William Kentridge and Tino Sehgal lined up for OGR centre in historic railway workshops
Richard Deacon fills the Royal Academy’s ‘sculpture ledge’
Works by more than 20 Academicians installed in Sackler Galleries in time for Matisse show
Ren Hang’s provocative photographs feature in Shanghai Photofairs’ new Spotlight section
Images by late photographer were last works to be authenticated by artist before his death
The arts festival erupting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
Walk & Talk includes exhibitions and performances on the Portuguese volcanic islands of the Azores
Paris exhibition and auction throw spotlight on refugee NGOs in France
Works by Cindy Sherman and Glenn Ligon to go on show at the Palais de Tokyo and on the block in Christie’s sale
Gurlitt bequest spurs provenance research in Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern has taken possession of first works from controversial collection of Nazi-era art due to go on show in November
Artists including Mona Hatoum design prayer rugs for San Francisco show
Visitors will be able to sit on 36 wool rugs arranged across the floor of a former interfaith chapel
Three Francis Bacon works stolen in Madrid recovered by Spanish police
Paintings were seized following a tip-off from the Art Loss Register
Private museum of Arab art in the pipeline for Beirut
Pop-up shows and international loans will pave the way for 2020 opening
Neil MacGregor extends contract at Berlin's Humboldt Forum
The former British Museum chief, appointed as founding director in 2015, will steer the project to completion
Portrait of the mystery man behind Castello di Rivoli’s £450m art loan
Federico Cerruti was extraordinary in his extreme ordinariness and austerity
Major Modern Russian collection heads to Fondation Louis Vuitton
After Shchukin show, private Paris museum cements Franco-Russian relationship with exhibition of blue-chip works bought by Morozov brothers