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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

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