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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
Three to see: Manchester International Festival
From Joy Division-inspired works of art to Samson Young’s mythic tales of Chinese travellers
Howard Hodgkin’s 50 years of travels to India revealed in Hepworth Wakefield show
Paintings include one that was thought to have been lost and one of his final works
Lens on the Middle East: British Museum acquires photographs by artists documenting refugee crisis and Syrian civil war
Works were purchased with the help of the Art Fund as part of an ongoing collecting initiative
Historic Mexico City swim club gets a second life as art gallery
Before Club Condesa is torn down by developers, the former women’s-only pool has been turned into a pop-up exhibition space
Three to see: London
From the subterranean delights of East London to Sargent’s lesser-known paintings
Austrian court rules in favour of Franz West’s family in legal battle over estate
Any remaining art and the profits from works sold to be turned over to the artist’s young children, court rules
The ‘only annual biennial’: La Biennale Paris reveals details of 2017 edition
The first edition of the now yearly event, which changed its name of the Biennale des Antiquaires, opens in September
New museum to open on Canada's prairies puts artists first
Remai Modern will bring Picasso prints and contemporary indigenous art to Saskatoon
Is Dalí the daddy?
Artist’s body to be exhumed after Spanish woman claims he was her biological father
Caro sculpture is shipshape again
Sea Music (1991) on Dorset's Poole Quay refreshed after 25 years' exposure to salty sea air and detritus from barges being loaded
Getty reimposes the rule of time
Chronological displays opening in 2018 at the Getty Villa will supersede themed galleries
Bulk of V&A’s £50m extension sponsored by four donors
Exhibition Road project creates new courtyard, entrance hall and subterranean gallery
Julia Peyton-Jones to join Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
The former head of the Serpentine will take over as senior global director of the commercial gallery in September





























