Racy comments about installations draw ire—and vandals

Work to replace war-damaged fresco from 1910

Recovered artefacts include paintings, stained glass and carvings

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

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

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

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

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

Assyrian reliefs among the 500 loans earmarked for long stay in Abu Dhabi

The 18th-century work is an early example of racial profiling

The country’s monasteries and mosques have no place in the Caliphate

Damascene reception room is being restored before making its museum debut in Saudi Arabia in 2016