The Public and Commercial Service union says library staff face “increased poverty and debt, with a concurrent rise in health issues”

A Frida Kahlo self-portrait measuring 5cm tall is on sale for $15m at the stand of Weinstein gallery

The blue-chip gallery has acquired a 19th-century palazzo in need of restoration in Sicily

The ambitious Lima 2035 project will revitalise the Peruvian capital’s architectural heart, a Unesco World Heritage Site, for its 500th birthday

The project “invites fairgoers to reflect, respond and enact change through signing a petition that demands the closure of Alligator Alcatraz”, Amnesty says

Recent restoration projects at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Ace Theatre and Olympia Theater have ranged from preservation to near demolition

The artist, who says his practice is “like a continuously expanding universe”, spotlights nonhuman intelligence in his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art

Isabelle Brourman, an artist known for her courtoom sketches from high-profile trials, is showing in a pop-up exhibition at the Rice Hotel

The installation in the fair's new Zero 10 digital art section features robotic creatures with hyper-realistic heads resembling tech moguls

“The Five Miracles of Christ” sold at Sotheby’s to a Christian foundation on Tuesday night, while an early Gerrit Dou led Christie’s evening auction at £3.8m

Dubbed the ‘Mona Lisa of the decorative arts’, the work is now the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction

The power threesome will launch Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries, specialising in secondary market sales

The hidden holes in the gilded copper statue, located on top of the French city's Notre-Dame de la Garde, were inflicted by German troops during the Second World War

The gallery has also revealed the architecture firms shortlisted to design its planned extension

The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster, and the Natural History Museum, are both located on the emirate’s Saadiyat Island

The 14th-century, English-made Asante Ewer was seized from the royal palace in Kumasi in 1896 and has been held by the British Museum ever since

In this extract from her new book, Maria "Masha" Alyokhina Alyokhina recalls her first meeting with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson

The best publications about Picasso's later years, from an esteemed biography to a book about his animal drawings—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The security expert Anthony Amore provides insights into the curious case of Myles Connor, who stole Rembrandt’s Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn

Plus, full listings of the biennials, triennials and festivals taking place throughout the year

Zilart will house the huge collection of St Petersburg property developer Andrey Molchanov and his wife, Yelizaveta Molchanov

From the late greats Richard Hunt and Joyce Pensato at the Institute of Contemporary Art to Hiba Schahbaz at Moca North Miami, Jack Pierson at the Bass and a look back at the futurism of World’s Fairs at the Wolfsonian

Show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt also demonstrates how the German artist's practice was altered radically by his experiences during the First World War

John-Paul Stonard argues the case for honouring Constable at London's soon-to-be expanded National Gallery

To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor

The writer went beyond the noble occupation of the art critic, smuggling hope into our lives

Affinities and distinctions are equally welcomed in a pair of exhibitions at the London venue

The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s

Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar

An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages

The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month

From the signage of HMS Victory and Tate Britain, to the graphic identities of galleries and biennials, his designs can be found across contemporary British culture

The founding editor-in-chief of the bilingual Artes Visuales magazine, Stellweg ran galleries in new York and was also a prolific critic, scholar and curator

A beloved figure in the Windy City art scene, Fitzpatrick was an artist, author, actor, curator and more

In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives