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Star Wars creator's museum buys sprawling work by US cartoonist

Robert Crumb’s illustration of Bible chapters to go on show in George Lucas's space in Chicago

Visitors down 35% as National Gallery strike continues

Half the museum's rooms have been closed since August

Royal College of Art suspends first year of course due to staff shortage

Closure is latest upset for college criticised by some for being too “business-like”

Orhan Pamuk’s novel-inspired museum to get London edition

Works housed at the Museum of Innocence will go on show at Somerset House next year

Hockney’s new portraits destined for London and Los Angeles shows

Art-world figures including Larry Gagosian and Benedikt Taschen among sitters

Discovery leads experts to redraw map of ancient Rome

The outline of a house dating to the sixth century BC was found beneath the Palazzo Canevari on the Quirinal Hill

Performance extravaganza 15 Rooms opens in Shanghai

Event’s first iteration in Asia includes five Chinese artists but no female nudity

Corbyn calls for end to arts cuts

Newly elected left-wing leader of Labour Party promises increased funding for the arts and backs National Gallery strikers

Gainsborough’s House launches fundraising campaign

Planned extension will put Grade-I listed townhouse on the international art map

Ai and Kapoor complete walk for refugees

Blankets carried by participants, as symbol of concern, will go to charity

Wadsworth relives Gilded Age glory days in grand reopening

Every gallery will be open to the public for the first time in 50 years

To see the Cold War, come to California

One of the world’s largest Cold War archives is moving to a new home in a former military complex

Ai Weiwei praises Germany’s response to refugee crisis

Artist reveals he was only granted full UK visa for Royal Academy show in London while in the air heading to Munich

Unofficial Iranian art ‘embassy’ to open in Jerusalem

Launch of the performance and exhibition space pushed back to October as more artists joined the project

US election 2016: which of the presidential frontrunners gets the arts?

Our guide to who’s running for the White House and what they have funded—or cut

Iranian artist could see sentence extended after shaking lawyer’s hand

Atena Farghadani’s gesture has led to new charges including “indecent conduct”

Was this unknown man Italy’s greatest collector?

Federico Cerruti died with a treasure-filled house in which he had slept only one night

Sotheby’s to sell collection of former owner Alfred Taubman

Auction of works owned by tycoon, who went to prison for price-fixing scandal, may be the most valuable private collection ever to hit the block

Artist to lead France's most prestigious art school after summer of discontent

Culture minister's appointment of Jean-Marc Bustamante follows controversial removal of leading curator ‎at Ecole des Beaux-Arts

Luciano Benetton’s collection presents a united view of the world’s cultures

But Venice exhibition is also full of political unrest and upheaval

Lawsuit against Cooper Union comes to an end

The college promises to work toward restoring free tuition

Three angry buyers quietly settle forgery cases with Knoedler

Six lawsuits over fake Abstract Expressionist works are ongoing while suspects in Spain face extradition

Four years on and Norway is still divided on massacre memorial

Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg's monument, which calls for a slice of the Sørbråten peninsula to be cut out like “an open wound”, was due for completion in July