Announcement of RA artistic director's new appointment comes after Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black stepped down as co-directors

Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government

The private collector tells us about her dreams for her own museum and the difficulty of maintaining her food art

Eight solo gallery presentations explore textiles, from knotted biomorphic hemp forms to Bauhaus-inspired geometric compositions in silk, cotton and paper at this year's fair

Major survey at Palazzo Reale will include his "most difficult" works as well as early pieces that inspired the Surrealists

Supported by undisclosed donation from Alwaleed Philanthropies, French museum’s newly renovated Islamic galleries reopened in full this week

Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections—from a compendium of African American history to the vast archive of an expelled Surrealist

After a grant enabled conservation on a much-loved painting, researchers at the National Gallery of Ireland are learning more about the artist’s technique

His company Safariland has been criticised for manufacturing tear gas canisters that have been used on asylum seekers along the US-Mexico border

The intensely private artist won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 2013 Venice Biennale

Site-specific works by artists such as Michael Rakowitz and Holly Hendry are planned as part of the Creative Coast initiative led by Turner Contemporary and Visit Kent

State regalia, Russian icons and decorative pistols go on show in exhibition celebrating the hidden craft of conservation

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide—from Lee Krasner's record-setting painting to a Hogarth conversation piece

Turkish non-profit contemporary art space Arter is relocating to a state-of-the-art exhibition space in Dolapdere district

Artist Melissa McGill teams up with Venetian sailors to celebrate maritime tradition in face of mass tourism and climate change

Critics say the move by Italy's populist coalition government will compromise the autonomy of museums

From the towering ambitions of a young Picasso to Rebecca Horn's Body Fantasies

The system of dividends is a way to address the "immense amounts of unpaid or underpaid labour" that support the art world, she says

Curator Gianni Jetzer shares the highlights of his eighth—and final— edition

The duo explain why their Venice Biennale presentation Moving Backwards is actually a step forward

Sixty dancers will enact "performative environment" on the Messeplatz in Basel every day this week

The French collector tells us about her new foundation of Aboriginal art and why she resists the collecting mentality

The former nightclub 'doorman' is now on display at the Museum of Norwich.

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Damien Hirst's placemat portraits to Nari Ward's recycled shoelace installation

As Fratelli Alinari vacates its Italian headquarters, there are hopes that Tuscan government will rescue the historic collection

From a major survey of Abstract Expressionist Lee Krasner at the Barbican, to rooftop sculptures at Bold Tendencies in Peckham

From the largest Leonardo da Vinci show in half a century, at the Queen's Gallery, to the first retrospective of Luchita Hurtado at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery

An indoor beach, Mongolian throat singing and ceramic vaginas—where to go beyond the Arsenale and Giardini

Initiative aims to boost Russian expertise in rapidly developing field of preserving contemporary art