From Okwui Enwezor’s final project to an Indigenous-inspired Liverpool Biennial, here are some key dates for your exhibition calendars

Leftist leader has appointed a culture minister but faces challenges from fundamentalism to funding

Grayson Perry is made a knight while Turner prize nominee Ingrid Pollard gets an MBE

Monster Chetwynd, Jem Perucchini and Zadie Xa will all unveil works around London’s transport hubs

‘Louvre Looks’ videos will be posted weekly on Instagram

Regional authority takes steps to prevent further damage to the ancient desert city

She confronted censorship issues including a legal battle over Henry Miller novel

Organisers of Gallerie d’Italia show have given full attributions to four works on loan from public and private collections in the US and UK

Theft from a Baroque oratory in 1969 remains "an open wound", says commissioning body

Rare work by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, valued at £277,990, will go on show at Ulster Museum

The agreement—signed by the two countries in July—involves the return of 1,100 objects in total

Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubda were sentenced in September for the crime of "corruption on earth through the promotion of homosexuality"

The Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum is the latest Western institution to return its collection of artefacts looted from Nigeria in the late-19th century

Announcement was made during the trial of six men which began in January and is due to resume this week

The refurbishment is backed by a raft of sponsors including British-American billionaire Leonard Blavatnik and international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills

Launched in 2009, the gallery took a five-year hiatus in 2017, but will return early next year with a TV archive show

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand artistic director is the first Latin American curator to take up the position

The Lightroom project, due to open next year, is backed by Tate Modern sponsor Leonard Blavatnik

Works on self-identity will be shown at the revamped London gallery next year

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's dearMoon trip is being developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company

Meanwhile, Shirin Neshat decries execution of protestor Mohsen Shekari on Instagram

Caribbean-born Julien Creuzet and sculptor Edith Karlson will fly the flag at the 60th edition of the exhibition

New York journal joins ARTnews and Art in America under same corporate umbrella

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Restitution Study Group have lost their first legal battle but insist the case is still pending

Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris

The painter, arguably Europe’s greatest female Old Master, had a flourishing workshop in the southern Italian city, interacting with key contemporaries there

Prize worth £110,000 enables Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art to host first UK museum show dedicated to Tanzanian-born artist Everlyn Nicodemus

Work that showed a public leaderboard of the richest people at Art Basel in Miami Beach will now stay in the city