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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

Richard Mosse arrested at anti-refugee rally on Greek island

Prix Pictet winner describes growing tensions over rising number of migrants in Chios