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Leonardo DiCaprio offers to turn over Basquiat and Picasso works to FBI
Pieces, purchased by individuals involved in a money-laundering investigation, were given to the actor as gifts
Moca Taipei announces major LGBTQ show as Taiwan set to legalise gay marriage
New exhibition will feature work by artists such as Samson Young and Yan Xing
Gutai’s spectacular rise—and potential fall
After a show in Venice and sales in Paris a decade ago, US collectors started to take the post-war Japanese movement seriously and demand soared—but have prices peaked?
Fondation Beyeler builds on 20 years of success
Architect Peter Zumthor adds three new wings to expand museum founded by Basel gallerist
Labour MP searching for missing artist calls Grenfell Tower fire ‘corporate manslaughter’
David Lammy says he has heard nothing from Khadija Saye who lived on the 20th floor of the West London tower block
Rare photographs of daily life in North Korea go on show right in the heart of Washington D.C
Exhibition opens at the American University Museum
Images of African community challenge racism in China
US photographer Daniel Traub has documented the African residents of Guangzhou for show at the Shanghai Centre of Photography
Julia Stoschek Collection celebrates 10 years with generation spanning video show
Exhibition curated by Ed Atkins includes work by Bruce Nauman, Jordan Wolfson and Lucy Raven
Agnes Gund urges collectors to sell their art to fight for justice
The philanthropist used her profits from the sale of a Roy Lichtenstein painting to create a criminal justice fund, in partnership with the Ford Foundation
National Gallery of Ireland’s grand reopening worth the protracted wait
Hundreds of works were restored during Dublin museum's refurbishment
The Getty gets £24.5m Parmigianino after no UK museum tries to match price
Export bar lifted on Italian Mannerist painting that has been in Britain for 250 years
Fahrelnissa Zeid: the Modern Turkish artist who walked on her canvases
Conservator travelled to Jordan to treat her work ahead of major Tate Modern show opening this week
Italian politicians clash over management of Colosseum
Rome mayor wins appeal against government plan to create new archaeological park
Lisson Gallery announces representation of Leon Polk Smith foundation
Hard-edge Minimalist influenced younger artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Jack Youngerman and Al Held
Shout out on social media enables Syrian refugee artist’s bronze to reach London
Alice Al Khatib’s work arrives from Beirut for group show while artist exiled in France
UK election upset leaves prime minister’s Brexit strategy in disarray
Remainers celebrate as Theresa May aims to lead minority government
Artist Eileen Cooper to step down as Keeper of Royal Academy Schools
Chief hanger of the Summer Exhibition, which opens next week, will be succeeded by Rebecca Salter
Economic blues on back burner as collectors flock to Art Basel
What to expect at the Swiss fair, including new faces and a funfair in the Messeplatz
When does a photograph lie? Taryn Simon's Innocents series looks at how images can be used to blur truth and fiction
The artist's images of the wrongfully committed go on show this month at the Guild Hall in New York
Peggy Guggenheim’s granddaughter takes the reins at the late collector’s Venetian museum
Karole P.B. Vail promises to “carry forward Peggy’s vision”
Roma artists and writers launch cultural institute in Berlin
First time the minority group will have permanent space to celebrate their art, history and traditions
Peabody Essex Museum turns to neuroscience
Newly appointed researcher, Tedi Asher, wants to “slow down” visitors
Souls Grown Deep expands the canon of US art
Foundation helps museums across the US to acquire works by self-taught African-American artists of the South
Artoon by Pablo Helguera, June 2017
“We believe art museums should engage with scientific research—so we hired a neuroscientist to help us make visitors pay higher admission fees.”
Lights designed by Le Corbusier withdrawn from Paris auction at last minute
Artcurial auctioneers left surprised as sale of 100 light sconces from Firminy World Heritage site is halted
Spy games: Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron turn the Park Avenue Armory into a panopticon playground
The show Hansel and Gretel, which looks at how surveillance changes the perception of public space, is a mix of menace and fun
Andrea Fraser tracks down museum trustees' political donations
The artist says her project will examine how the US has become a plutocracy
UK election could trigger a cultural bonanza
Both the major political parties make big promises about new money for the arts
Organisers of Ghost Ship artist space charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter
The two men were involved in creating unsafe conditions at the converted Oakland warehouse that caught fire last year, prosecutors say
Monet to be star of London’s National Gallery next year
Exhibition of French Impressionist will be joined in 2018 by shows on Thomas Cole, Ed Ruscha, Mantegna and Bellini