Thieves took two further works but dropped two as they fled, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-mer says

The planned SANAA-designed museum for Budapest’s City Park has been cancelled, leaving the future home of Hungary’s national collection undecided

Lawyers for the heir, a descendant of the Dutch dealer Jacques Goudstikker, say the outcome is ‘unprecedented’ as it involves the recovery of a work held in private hands through a criminal case

Institution at the University of Oxford will return 39 pieces of remains, primarily skulls, to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent by the end of the year

After almost a decade of delays and controversies, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson launch a giant space to house a 40,000-piece collection spanning from comics to Star Wars materials to a Frida Kahlo self-portrait

David Chipperfield has converted Banco Santander’s former headquarters into Faro Santander, a new home for works by artists including Velásquez, Titian, Goya, Picasso and Sorolla

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

To mark her 45th birthday, the pop music superstar and art collector gave generously to the revered New York City museum

A new paper links widening wealth inequality to the market’s growing reliance on ultra-rich collectors

The Continuum initiative provides rare access to a global audience and market

A criminal court in Hamburg has ordered the confiscation of €32m in sales proceeds from Serop Simonian’s children, who plan to appeal their conviction

Taking over the longstanding Abu Dhabi Art, the Frieze brand has lured international dealerships alongside a strong showing of regional names

From Warhol to Annie Leibovitz, the late Dolly Parton was an inspiration to artists over her long career

Oliver Beer persuaded the star to take part in his Resonance Project, which involves singers to responding to the acoustic frequencies in a prehistoric painted cave

As Andy Burnham opens a new office in the city of Manchester, we offer up some suitably northern works for the walls

The statue, which has drawn hordes of onlookers, will remain in St James's for at least the next few weeks, with the council aiming to make a decision on its longevity by the end of summer

Now owned by the Niarchos Greek shipping family, it will be loaned to a huge show on the fabled pioneer collector Gustave Fayet

The sculpture, of an art preparator whose torso is concealed in a crate with their legs sticking out, prompted a late-night rescue mission at Vancouver’s Access Gallery

The not-for-profit organisation puts on ambitious art, music and performance in the unlikely setting of a multi-storey car park in Peckham

The work is on loan to the exhibition ‘Rembrandt 1632: The Creation of a Brand’ at the Ducal Museum Gotha

Discouraged from pursuing an artistic career as a young woman, Kusama went on to inspire millions with her performances, installations, paintings and more

The artist, who is now in her 90s and voluntarily living in a psychiatric hospital, has a major retrospective under way in Hong Kong

All you ever wanted to know about Kusama, from a detailed study of her Infinity Mirror Room to illustrations for Alice in Wonderland—selected by the Gropius Bau director Stephanie Rosenthal

From naked performances in New York and her relationship with Joseph Cornell to hijacking the Venice Biennale, the Japanese artist is the subject of a new comic book by Elisa Macellari

Our round-up of the latest art publications

Author James Cahill's account of the burgeoning 1960s LA art scene explores links between collector Betty Freeman and the late Yorkshire artist

Oscar Ho Hing-kay outlines the growing visibility of boundary-breaking local artists and their responses to the 1997 handover to China

The Italian scholar Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo tells us about new discoveries and why the Bolognese painter was an innovator in her field

An EU court's decision in a case relating to the sampling of a Kraftwerk track will have implications across the arts

A circular observation deck in the colonnade below the golden Civic Fame statue opened to the public last month, after a $6m restoration

Josh Kline’s viral essay highlights how creative people lose gumption in the face of financial burden, but we should all strive for community instead of competing for the wealthy’s attention

Since the opening of the late German artist's Venice show, events at the Biennale and the result of the UK's council elections have continued to expose art's vulnerability to politics

Through his art, Mansour was a pioneering force of Palestinian cultural resistance

Over a four-decade career, the French art critic and curator profoundly influenced contemporary art institutions in Switzerland and France

A Californian through and through, but based in New York for most of her life, she took lessons from ceramics, design, Post-Minimalism, hard-edged abstraction and more, synthesising them into something wholly her own

The legendary Los Angeles artist reframed charged images and objects, embraced printmaking and developed elaborate, transporting installations

The film director Baz Luhrmann and his wife, production designer Catherine Martin, have designed the lavish interior

From Jannis Kounellis to Anselm Kiefer, a very personal art collection, asssembled by the De Santis family, is now on view in the 1930s villa