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Florence’s famous Gates of Paradise find new home in Kansas City

Visitors to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will be greeted by a copy of Ghiberti’s baptistery doors

Artists to set up camp in Brooklyn Army Terminal

Non-profit ArtBuilt to open 50 workspaces for artists, artisans and designers in the massive New York City-owned property

Tate Impressionist blockbuster reunites six of Monet’s Houses of Parliament pictures

UK entrepreneur Andrew Brownsword is lending a Sisley painting of the Thames

Depression and radicalisation: images reveal plight of displaced male refugees

Edward Jonkler’s photographs, on view in London, show men held in limbo at centres in Europe and the Middle East

New space commemorates Moscow’s neglected Soviet-era buildings

Russian non-profit museum opens as government earmarks Constructivist buildings for demolition

What the V&A’s director actually said about digitisation

Contrary to media reports, Tristram Hunt says museum is "very passionate" about unlocking its collections online

In the age of Trump (and before), museums help immigrants on the path to US citizenship

New-York Historical Society launches free civics course for Green Card holders

Photographer Zanele Muholi 'enraged' after Airbnb altercation

Member of Muholi's team was hospitalised after she was allegedly pushed down the stairs in Amsterdam

Images of melting glaciers head to backyard of Trump’s Florida home

Exhibition highlighting effects of climate change to open near Mar-a-Lago

Damien Hirst banks on Venice show for his renaissance

Artist and his investor-collectors hope spectacular exhibition and plenty of spin will revive flagging market

Dusseldorf museum pulls painting from show after Nazi loot claim

Owner says Andreas Achenbach’s Sicilian Landscape was bought in a “normal gallery transaction”

Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation collection come to CCS Bard

No to the Invasion: Breakdowns and Side Effects spans over two decades of art from Arab countries

Tate Modern exhibition aims to be a 'turning point' for African-American artists

Soul of a Nation features works by more than 60 black artists who shaped the civil rights era

Nazi-looted Pissarro case can go ahead, says US appeals court

New law provides basis for Cassirer family to pursue 16-year legal battle over painting

Work begins at The Factory—the Manchester arts hub designed by Rem Koolhaas’s OMA

Cube-shaped building will provide permanent home for Manchester International Festival

Meet the artist behind Jeff Koons’s controversial ballerinas

Oksana Zhnikrup is the figurine maker whose Soviet-era work was copied under licence, but not initially acknowledged, by the US artist

Jewellery worth up to £3m stolen from London's Masterpiece fair

Metropolitan Police investigating theft from stand of Geneva-based Boghossian

Hockney topples Hirst as Tate’s most popular living artist

Recent exhibition at Tate Britain is sure to boost museum’s declining visitor figures

David Hockney gallery opens in Bradford ahead of artist’s 80th birthday

New space will include early sketchbooks, recent iPad images and family photography albums

Whitechapel Gallery to host first major Thomas Ruff retrospective in London

Photographs from 1980s will also go on show at the National Portrait Gallery to coincide with the autumn survey

Three to See: Les Rencontres d'Arles photography festival

From 66 Iranian photographers to Joel Meyerowitz’s slick city scenes

Royal Academy of Arts to stage its greatest spectacle

Show in 2018 will celebrate 250 years of the world’s most prestigious open exhibition

Cass Sculpture Foundation to commission public art for Battersea Power Station district

Southbank Centre chief Jude Kelly is advising on new riverside residential and commercial development

Qatar blockade tests cultural relations

Museums hope to overcome embargo imposed by Gulf neighbours as deadline extended

China launches crackdown on social media

New cybersecurity law decreeing greater internet surveillance will affect everyone—including artists

Documenta takes aim at neoliberalism, capitalism and abuses of power

Its artistic director has made a point of showcasing lesser-known artists, and most impressive is the work by artists of African descent

Thomas Campbell on why he stepped down from the Met

Former director says the museum’s plan to rebuild its Modern and contemporary art wing means his successor can attract donations of $50m-plus works 

Münster expands definition of what public sculpture can be

The survey show in Germany takes place only once every ten years, which gives it a unique perspective, says its organiser

Guggenheim Bilbao celebrates 20th birthday with Bill Viola

Retrospective honours US artist who sparked museum’s commitment to video art