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British Museum plans sweeping redisplay of world cultures

Artefacts from ancient civilisations will be united for first time and more space given to Oceania, the Americas and Africa

Martin Bailey

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt to lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum

German-born sculpture specialist was first non-Italian to lead prestigious Florentine institution

about 2 hours ago

Hannah McGivern

Five works to see at the Folkestone Triennial

Public art exhibition includes a giant jelly mould, minarets and a lightbulb moment

about 5 hours ago

Gareth Harris

Setback for Lahore Biennale as artistic director Rashid Rana quits

Inaugural edition of Pakistan’s biggest ever contemporary show has now been postponed until next year

about 6 hours ago

Gareth Harris

Museum openings this autumn and winter

From Shenzhen to Cape Town, new or improved institutions prepare to open their doors in the second half of 2017

about 7 hours ago

Gareth Harris

‘We need to take into consideration the whole world, not only Europe’

The British Museum’s director has bold plans to redisplay galleries and move stored collections out of London

about 7 hours ago

Interview by Martin Bailey

White House review could shrink protected land around Michael Heizer’s City

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s report on national monuments recommends reductions but no details revealed

Helen Stoilas

Roll up, roll up to Britain’s first interfaith charity shop on Selfridges’ third floor

US artist Miranda July's Artangel installation opens its doors

Louisa Buck

Brancusi sculpture inspires Romanian football kit

CSU Craiova looks to Modernist sculptor for inspiration

The Art Newspaper

Christie's adds London auctions in October, raises buyer's premium

House sees "great potential for growth" for lots under £1m in the photograph and design categories during Frieze week

Anna Brady

Can new leadership and a change of name save the Biennale de Paris?

For its 55th birthday, the fair formerly known as the Biennale des Antiquaires is hoping for a “renewal” after a difficult 2016 edition

Vincent Noce

Archival gifts are 'holy grail' of Edward Hopper

Five thousand items, shared between Whitney and artist's boyhood home, could inspire new exhibitions

Victoria Stapley-Brown

Miranda July turns corner of Selfridges into interfaith charity shop

Film-maker and artist's Artangel commission has been created in solidarity with Islamic Relief

Anny Shaw

Surfacing on the Block: a Finn Juhl coffee table and playwright Edward Albee's collection

Spotlight on this month’s most distinctive auctions

Gabriella Angeleti and Anna Brady

David Tang, fashion entrepreneur and Chinese art collector, dies aged 63

Founder of fashion brand Shanghai Tang displayed pieces from his collection in his clubs and restaurants

Lisa Movius

Atlanta's falcon has landed

The new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta is home to a massive falcon sculpture

The Art Newspaper

How Pacific Standard Time plans to reframe film and video history

A group of exhibitions and programmes to artists from across the Americas

By Pac Pobric

Italy relaxes stringent export laws for post-war art

New legislation eases movement of post-war Italian art out of the country, lifts restrictions on photography in state archives

Hannah McGivern and Anna Brady

Closure of South Kensington saleroom marks end of an era

As Christie’s chases new markets, the middle is a casualty. Where will the trade move?

Anna Brady

Scotland's pioneering Inverleith House gallery saved from closure

Exhibition space in Edinburgh's botanic gardens has reopened after public outcry

Tim Cornwell

Christie's South Kensington: the training ground where an industry learned its game

Art world power players add their voices to the eulogy for the well-loved secondary saleroom

Anna Brady

Why taking down Sam Durant’s Scaffold was the right thing to do

The director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis defends the decision to let the Dakota people claim the controversial sculpture

Olga Viso

Protean- rich: on the Gerhard Richter catalogue raisonné

The latest volume reveals Gerhard Richter’s variable but not always successful styles

Alexander Adams

Yayoi Kusama’s critical friend, Donald Judd

The Japanese artist's works go on show at the Minimalist artist's Soho home

Javier Pes

Demilitarised zone is made flesh by Turner winner

Douglas Gordon’s film, part of UK-South Korea cultural collaboration, shows refugee being tattooed

Gareth Harris

Cracked it! Getty exhibition unlocks the material secrets of Concrete art

Study of Latin American works from the Coleccíon Patricia Phelps de Cisneros reveals orientation shifts, household paint and ways to obtain that perfect edge

Emily Sharpe

Artists lead preservation efforts at California arts centre

Latest commission at the Headlands Center for the Arts continues long tradition of rehabilitation projects at the former military complex

Emily Sharpe

Venice can’t manage its tourists—yet it’s encouraging more to come from China

The town council proposes digital monitoring and a charge to enter St Mark’s Square

Anna Somers Cocks

On the side of the angels

Vittorio Scarpati made a series of bold drawings in a New York hospital before he died of Aids, which also claimed the life of his wife, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller. Teeming with “piles of angels”, Scarpati’s drawings are being shown for the first time in 25 years in London this month

Rachel Corbett

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Artist interview

Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict

As three new commissions open this year in the UK and Abu Dhabi, the US artist reflects on the continued dominance of war as a theme in her work and says she longs for Trump to be “in the past tense”

Louisa Buck

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China

Zhao Bandi’s party crashed by censorship at the Ullens Center in Beijing

Reproductions replace two works in his solo show, China Party, that were banned for import

By Lisa Movius

News
In the frame

An eggs-eptional Artangel project by Andy and Peter Holden

By The Art Newspaper

News
Law

Islamic extremist liable for €2.7m in damages for destroying Timbuktu shrines

Ruling by the International Criminal Court sets an important precedent

By Anna Sansom

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Economics

Art means business in San Francisco

A new report finds that the city’s arts and culture sector generates $1.45 billion in spending each year

By Gabriella Angeleti

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Art schools

Art school under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been accused of cowardice and censorship over its treatment of former professor and Henry Darger expert Michael Bonesteel

By Jori Finkel

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Appointments

India Art Fair gets new director for tenth edition

Jagdip Jagpal to take the helm from Neha Kirpal, who remains founder and co-owner

British Museum plans sweeping redisplay of world cultures

Uffizi director Eike Schmidt to lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum

Five works to see at the Folkestone Triennial

Setback for Lahore Biennale as artistic director Rashid Rana quits

Museum openings this autumn and winter

‘We need to take into consideration the whole world, not only Europe’

White House review could shrink protected land around Michael Heizer’s City

Roll up, roll up to Britain’s first interfaith charity shop on Selfridges’ third floor

Brancusi sculpture inspires Romanian football kit

Christie's adds London auctions in October, raises buyer's premium

Can new leadership and a change of name save the Biennale de Paris?

Archival gifts are 'holy grail' of Edward Hopper

Miranda July turns corner of Selfridges into interfaith charity shop

Surfacing on the Block: a Finn Juhl coffee table and playwright Edward Albee's collection

David Tang, fashion entrepreneur and Chinese art collector, dies aged 63

Atlanta's falcon has landed

How Pacific Standard Time plans to reframe film and video history

Italy relaxes stringent export laws for post-war art

Closure of South Kensington saleroom marks end of an era

Scotland's pioneering Inverleith House gallery saved from closure

Christie's South Kensington: the training ground where an industry learned its game

Why taking down Sam Durant’s Scaffold was the right thing to do

Protean- rich: on the Gerhard Richter catalogue raisonné

Yayoi Kusama’s critical friend, Donald Judd

Demilitarised zone is made flesh by Turner winner

Cracked it! Getty exhibition unlocks the material secrets of Concrete art

Artists lead preservation efforts at California arts centre

Venice can’t manage its tourists—yet it’s encouraging more to come from China

On the side of the angels

Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict

Zhao Bandi’s party crashed by censorship at the Ullens Center in Beijing

An eggs-eptional Artangel project by Andy and Peter Holden

Islamic extremist liable for €2.7m in damages for destroying Timbuktu shrines

Art means business in San Francisco

Art school under fire for bowing to transgender student complaints

India Art Fair gets new director for tenth edition

British art comes under the spotlight at Cheltenham Literature Festival

Charlottesville riot hastens removal of Confederate monuments throughout the US

Doris Salcedo’s latest work: a memorial for drowned migrants

India's new Partition Museum opens near Pakistani border

Object lessons: an unearthed Norman Rockwell, a glass flower by Chihuly and a rare work by Ursula von Rydingsvard

Why Olafur Eliasson’s yellow room is coming to London's National Gallery

Sean Henry sculpture gives Woking’s commuters pause for thought

Charlottesville protestor thought to have targeted LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner work with anti-Semitic comments

Scotland Yard’s Art and Antiques Unit heading for closure

Thieves posing as Paris city employees caught on camera stripping street artist’s mosaics

Athena (Theresa May) turns Ajax (Michael Gove) mad and he starts slaughtering sheep

Moving stuff at the Roundhouse: Wayne McGregor & Random International

Tate paid Herzog & de Meuron reduced fee for Switch House extension

David Roberts to close London space and open sculpture park in Somerset

De Kooning painting stolen from Arizona museum was hanging in New Mexico couple’s bedroom

New York gives Trump a ratty welcome

William Turnbull, the artist who would never name-drop

‘London Museum of Photography’ to open in capital’s East End

Kusama gets own museum in Tokyo

New York's Fashion Institute of Technology redesigns its art market Master’s programme

Latin American galleries launch a cooperative model in Los Angeles

Leonardo DiCaprio becomes Leonardo da Vinci

Design auctions buck the downward trend

John Currin paints Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue

Construction boss Jack Kirkland’s collection gets Sheffield outing

Thomas Hart Benton’s naval gazing

Winter Whiteout is coming—to Madison Square Park with art installation

Lime, sand and animal hair: on 18th-century British interiors

São Paulo’s dealers team up to organise a homegrown art fair

Visions of 18th-century France: how the Goncourt brothers taught America about Rococo

Naked down under: Facebook censors erotic art

Five of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers to be reunited on Facebook

Fake heritage for the fake news era

Object lessons: classic Americana by John Brewster, a rare sculptural work by Julian Schnabel and a Burntwater rug by Philomena Yazzie

First public art works for Battersea Power Station site selected

Shortlist for UK National Holocaust Memorial goes on show at V&A

Tim Reeve, deputy director of the V&A, remembers Martin Roth

The Bronze Age at Frieze—courtesy of Mary Beard

Playing chicken at the White House