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Artists including Mona Hatoum design prayer rugs for San Francisco show
Visitors will be able to sit on 36 wool rugs arranged across the floor of a former interfaith chapel
Three Francis Bacon works stolen in Madrid recovered by Spanish police
Paintings were seized following a tip-off from the Art Loss Register
Private museum of Arab art in the pipeline for Beirut
Pop-up shows and international loans will pave the way for 2020 opening
Neil MacGregor extends contract at Berlin's Humboldt Forum
The former British Museum chief, appointed as founding director in 2015, will steer the project to completion
Portrait of the mystery man behind Castello di Rivoli’s £450m art loan
Federico Cerruti was extraordinary in his extreme ordinariness and austerity
Major Modern Russian collection heads to Fondation Louis Vuitton
After Shchukin show, private Paris museum cements Franco-Russian relationship with exhibition of blue-chip works bought by Morozov brothers
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