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Shortlist for UK National Holocaust Memorial goes on show at V&A

Rachel Whiteread, Michal Rovner and Anish Kapoor in the running to create new structure honouring victims of Nazi persecution

Two members of Pussy Riot detained after protesting against film-maker's imprisonment

Maria Alyokhina and Olga Borisova were arrested in eastern Siberia but released after the judge found errors in the case files

Garage Museum founders Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova split

The art world power couple said they will continue working together on joint projects

National Academy artists including Marina Abramovic, Chuck Close and Kara Walker condemn calls to cancel Dana Schutz show

Open letter supports ICA Boston’s decision to go ahead with show of artist whose painting of Emmett Till’s casket sparked protest at the Whitney Biennial

North Korean art goes on show at the United Nations—in defiance of Kim Jong-un

Four artists submitted works in secret for the international art exhibition

Abramovic and Ulay reunite at Louisiana Museum

Performance artists tell Louisiana Channel that they are friends again after epic break-up on Great Wall of China

Artlogic announces formal expansion in the US

Marian Goodman, Gagosian and Paul Kasmin among galleries to join the London-based technology firm

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

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