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A Vanity Fair of the art world in a thriller about an imaginary Watteau
Sufi-inspired exhibition aims to rescue Islam from the extremists
Regional museums and stately homes in heart of England aim to attract more foreign visitors by treating visitors like modern m'lords
Jacob, Lord Rothschild, is one of the great benefactors of the English museum scene in both time and money
Foundation and Finnish partners seek best architect for proposed Nordic satellite while Frank Gehry refines plans for Saadiyat Island museum <br>
The British Museum reopens the Waddesdon Bequest Wunderkammer, funded by Lord Rothschild
Anna Somers Cocks is charmed by the story of Mr B, accompanied by a donkey and a stout umbrella
Far from furthering tolerance, this biennale project has irritated intercultural relations
Far from furthering tolerance, this biennale project has irritated intercultural relations
Christoph Büchel addresses the lack of a mosque in the Italian city
What you can do despite too many cruise ships, rising sea level and with no one in charge
Restored with passion by Desmond FitzGerald, co-founder of the Irish Georgian society, it is on the market at €6.5m, contents extra
New York University promises to close “compliance gap” on Saadiyat Island as museum projects come under fresh scrutiny
Last month’s conference at the Institut du Monde Arabe acquired special meaning after Charlie Hebdo
Lorne Thyssen's antiquities gallery opened in London’s Davies Street last month
A selection of objects with exceptional histories
Antonio Paolucci discusses the role of the Vatican's museums as custodians of sacred and profane art after the city state makes its underground necropolis accessible during Francis's first year as spiritual leader of the world's catholics
Biennial embraces divergent ways of seeing the world, despite growing censorship in the Gulf
Officials ask M97 gallery to remove work
The story of the royal portrait that has most deeply embedded itself in British consciousness and was adopted all over the Commonwealth
The Italian dealer and co-founder of Sperone Westwater spoke to us in 2011 about botany, the difference between European and US galleries and why the "big gallery" systems won't last
A review of 17th century Genoese artist and the 20th century Surrealist
An immersive, digital film at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reimagines the artist’s dark fantasies as if in three dimensions
Purchase begins final phase of Jacob Rothschild’s visionary restoration of one of London’s few surviving aristocratic town palaces
The famous library founded by Aby Warburg for a special kind of research may lose its essential nature
How the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries have dealt with our ignorance of Christianity
As the Middle East increasingly becomes a producer and consumer of contemporary art, the role of the West as 'tastemaker' grows progressively more troubling
