Irwen was sentenced in 2016 on charges that included resisting the police at a protest she attended in 2013

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a pot by an African-American slave to the earliest depiction of Highland dress

Austrian patron donates work to Reina Sofia and commissions new piece by Ragnar Kjartansson to be shown at Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Italian officials say cultural institutions can open to the public so long as they ensure “visitors respect a distance of at least a metre between each other”

Countries' rush to restitute objects is part of the problem, says Belgian lawyer

Italian patron is looking for an alternative site in the Spanish capital after encountering "structural problems" with Matadero's Nave 9 building

The deputy chairman of the Paris-based auction house Artcurial was suffering from food poisoning

Seafront commission, which references the invasion of Iraq in 2003, is part of England’s Creative Coast: Waterfronts initiative

Hakanto Contemporary, sponsored by the eco-friendly Filatex group, is directed by the artist Joël Andrianomearisoa

Previous highest figure was 540,000 people for the Eugène Delacroix show in 2018

Political upheaval across the region presents challenges—and opportunities—for artists and collectors

Public and private institutions in Venice, Milan and Turin will stay closed for at least a week as more than 200 cases of Covid-2019 are confirmed

Dispute centres on zero-hours contracts, pay devaluation, rising workloads and the gender and ethnicity pay gap

A woman connected to the museum where the painting was found is under investigation by the Italian police

Dissident wants to create a “political porn” website focusing on behaviour of people in power

First cohort of artist fellows includes Nancy Baker Cahill, Agnieszka Kurant and Pierre Huyghe

Louise Bourgeois’s Maman spider sculpture will also return to the Turbine Hall

Selection committee says British Afro-Caribbean artist "has consistently probed one of society’s big questions: how do we live with difference?”

Pro-Israel arts group protested to French culture ministry about her appointment

Streaming services have changed the way we watch television, but while they feature plenty of arts programming, there are few new commissions

Structure is inspired by places where people gather across London including migrant community hubs

Free entry—plus coffee and madeleines—promised for nocturnal visitors in a move that will allow an extra 30,000 people to see the exhibition

Jonty Bravery said he wanted to “push somebody off” more than a year ago

From today's finest figurative painters to British Baroque in the post-Brexit age

The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices

Exhibition project You, Me & Cold War Steve: the International Exhibition of the People has already been downloaded 3,000 times with scheduled venues across the globe

Artists Lina Lapelytė, Paul Maheke and Nina Beier will present new live performance works at Glasgow International contemporary art festival

British Museum and Art Loss Register collaborate over recovery of ancient bull decoration that was consigned to an online auction

The skateboards are produced in a limited marble edition of 25 and a wood edition of 500

Exhibitions in 2020 include Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, US painter Jennifer Packer, Chinese artist Cao Fei and Strasbourg-born Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster