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Italian museum is latest in line to borrow works by artists including Pollock and Picasso

Works by Tintoretto and Rubens among 17 pieces taken

Europe’s leading photography fair puts large-scale, serial works in focus

Italy’s leading contemporary art fair sets itself apart with initiatives like a free art advisory and a section for under-appreciated artists

Public helped choose the winner of prize for socially engaged art in parliamentary-style open-jury at Liverpool Town Hall

Market turns on its head as buyers show less interest in the usual contemporary, blue-chip names

The 18th-century tapestry was pulled from a London auction and returned to its château in Normandy

Leading academics discussed the Italian artist’s radical Argentine roots and less noticed ceramic work

Live projects and curated booths are back at Frieze London and Masters

And celebrations supported by Volkswagen

And celebrations supported by Volkswagen

Interest groups are putting up a united front in the hopes of reform

Italian auctions trigger a surge in the country’s post-war art, and the city’s dealers answer the demand

William Kentridge's marching refugees, Luc Tuymans's abstract friends and possibly the capital's tiniest show

Ancient sculpture from Italian museums to go on show in Tehran after Iran lends Greek statue to Fondazione Prada

Two recent plagiarism cases throw light on the country's lax stance on copying

Major institutions including the Uffizi will be led by foreigners for the first time in country’s history

Asian buyers were active, but Russians largely absent in a week of mixed results at Sotheby's, Christie's and Bonhams

Italian artist’s New York survey could be in the Met Breuer

Many prominent foreign museum professionals have made the cut

And why this major overhaul of the country’s state museums can still go very wrong due to vested interests and bureaucracy