September event marks end of first year of the initiative overseen by Cecilia Alemani, the director of High Line Art, New York

Designs and location of statue for bicentenary of "turning point in UK democracy" will be put to public consultation

Haroon Gunn-Salie’s installation of 17 headless men represents victims of Marikana shootings

Proposal to move Emmeline Pankhurst sculpture comes months after new Millicent Fawcett work was unveiled to celebrate centenary of female suffrage

The polarising ex-army leaker will discuss artificial intelligence, LGBTQ rights and the links between digital technology and democracy

Trieste deputy mayor Paolo Polidori calls image commissioned for sailing regatta “political propaganda”

Reasons and perpetrators behind the removal of the key biennial work remain unclear

Kochi Biennale organisers condemn “state-sanctioned violence” while Indian artists pledge to “shame the Bangladeshi authorities”

With more than 120 galleries, fair's second edition will test the strength of the German capital's under-developed art market

Activist is detained and charged after commenting on student protests in Dhaka

Marina Abramovic’s ex-partner has signed up with Richard Saltoun gallery

Activist launches Jeffrey Deitch’s new Hollywood gallery and will show works with talent agency UTA

Non-profit programme launches in October with show by Venezuelan artist Pepe López in London chapel

Write on Art initiative was launched to combat the decline of arts teaching in schools

Artists and lecturers are crowdfunding for legal fees in bid to win employee status

White marble monument, a Unesco World Heritage site, is turning yellow due to pollution and insect dung

Cobra group co-founder and fog sculpture pioneer among five laureates given the prestigious annual award

British curator Norman Rosenthal says Blenheim Palace banquet “severely compromises” past exhibitions, while cultural figures speak out about president’s policies

Museum admission charges will be on the agenda of MP who cites “James Bond films and playing golf badly” as interests

Alumni at odds over how to move forward after fire gutted Mackintosh’s masterpiece

Piece by Italian Baroque painter was sold in Paris last year for €2.4m

Cross-channel collaboration involves translating, conserving and digitalising the historic embroidery

Fairs held at the Grand Palais forced to move out of the historic venue during extensive renovations beginning 2021

The French President has commissioned a report identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the current programmes

Ayad says decision to leave was "personal" and plans to launch her own art consultancy

UK capital's heatwave lends a relaxed summer atmosphere to cross-collecting fair, where deals are done at a slower tempo than at contemporary events

Hull gallery more than tripled visitor numbers during UK City of Culture year after “Herculean” renovation

Michael Jackson is a thrilling muse at the National Portrait Gallery, while ancient Egypt is given a modern twist at the British Museum

We speak to the queen of performance art about casting herself in stone and to the National Portrait Gallery’s director Nicholas Cullinan about the king of pop’s influence on artists.

The painting will be lent to the Louvre in Paris next year for an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of artist's death