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Studio Museum in Harlem to build new home from the ground up

David Adjaye-designed gallery aims to reflect institution's roots

Why Italy’s museums need this shake-up

And why this major overhaul of the country’s state museums can still go very wrong due to vested interests and bureaucracy

Head of France's most prestigious art school abruptly dismissed

French culture minister decides its time to replace Nicolas Bourriaud who was caught by "surprise"

Isil holds heritage to ransom to fund fighters, US expert warns

Terrorist group functions as a modern racketeering operation through sale of plundered cultural objects

Kapoor accused of courting controversy in Versailles

Racy comments about installations draw ire—and vandals

Marlene Dumas to paint Dresden altarpiece

Work to replace war-damaged fresco from 1910

Churches targeted in organised crime wave

Recovered artefacts include paintings, stained glass and carvings

Lottery fund is a success, but grants are much harder to get

Report praises most of the first 100 projects to be completed, but the days of enormous largesse are gone

Experts identify top six scandals amid boom in art crime

As new challenges emerge, tighter regulation is needed, they tell New York conference

Paris Jewish centre to open in 2017 as a ‘symbol of hope’

The €10m project in the city’s 17th arrondissement is due to include a synagogue, library, theatre and classrooms

Cass Sculpture Foundation announces major Chinese art show in 2016

Large-scale installations by contemporary Chinese artists are being specially commissioned for next year

Art teachers caught in crossfire over university sexual-assault debate

Freedom of expression at centre of lawsuit claiming that professor’s advice was “harassment”