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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
Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay to become one of the world’s largest public art parks
Ambitious 20-year, $50m redevelopment plan includes a raft of art projects, from large-scale sculptures to performance
Shepard Fairey talks street art in Sydney—and reveals which word he would have put on a Hillary poster
The US artist was in Australia to create his largest-ever mural, a 44-metre-tall message of “peace and harmony”
French military funds technology to document heritage in conflict zones
The 3D data will allow troops on the ground to asses conditions of monuments via their laptops
Abstract art that Khrushchev condemned to get home in Moscow as well as US and China shows
Museum founder wants global recognition for Russia’s abstractionists of the 1950s and 1960s
First Backlot Arts Festival opens this weekend in Astoria's Kaufman Arts District
The Queens neighbourhood is hosting a two-day festival of shows, performances and workshops
Fontainebleau theatre restoration enters final phase
Focus will be on restoring the theatre’s machinery, the upper levels of the salons and the podium that houses one of France’s most important stage sets
Rare drawing from Brian Sewell’s collection to feature in Wyndham Lewis survey
Retrospective at IWM North in Manchester is the largest-ever exhibition of the controversial avant-garde artist's work
Collector sues Christie’s for cancelling David Hammons sale
Buyer rejects compensation offer for US artist’s body print
Spain’s new Centro Botín shuns the ‘Bilbao effect’
Architect Renzo Piano rejects comparisons between Santander’s latest art centre and the Guggenheim museum
Memorial appeals launched to remember Khadija Saye
Donations made to create paid internship plus general fund in memory of Venice Biennale artist who died in London’s Grenfell Tower fire
Ei Arakawa sculpture vandalised at Sculpture Projects Münster
Stolen LED panel to be replaced by Japanese artist but work will be different
Entire body of UK public sculpture to go online by 2020
Art UK to digitise nation’s 170,000 publicly owned sculptures in three-year operation
Will the real Modigliani please stand up?
Modigliani Project aims to throw new light on a market bedevilled by fakes and squabbles
Three men charged with selling fake Damien Hirst prints online for $400,000
Man recently imprisoned for similar scheme is among group accused of deceiving dozens of collectors around the world
Queen’s birthday honours: Ukrainian-born museum donor Leonard Blavatnik is made a knight
Other recipients include the artists John Akomfrah and Idris Khan
Richard Mosse arrested at anti-refugee rally on Greek island
Prix Pictet winner describes growing tensions over rising number of migrants in Chios