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Rome's Villa Borghese to stage Yang Fudong show

Chinese artist heads to home of Italian Old Masters, followed by Picasso

New film on Uli Sigg's life takes Chinese art collector back in time

Documentary screened in Hong Kong this week revisits China as Bamboo Curtain was lifted in the 1980s

When Wagstaff met Mapplethorpe

A new book describes the late collector's nine-year spending spree on images by famous and obscure photographers

Countdown to Art Basel in Hong Kong

Heading to the fair? You'll find more historical work by Asian artists, more Western galleries, plus a "waterfall" of numbers as high as a skyscraper

Budget 2016 to see extra arts funding heading north

But London's Royal College of Art among biggest winners as Chancellor presses on with austerity measures

Which star architect will be first to use blackest of black material?

Maker of spray-on version of Vantablack working with “global architects” as well as Anish Kapoor <br>

Wim Pijbes to leave Rijksmuseum for new museum on Dutch coast

Multi-millionaire collector lures director away from Amsterdam to lead contemporary art space

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Israel Museum’s longstanding and well-connected director to step aside

In new role US-born James Snyder will continue to foster Jerusalem institution’s global relationships<br>

Conrad Shawcross’s monumental sculpture arrives on time in St Pancras, London

<p> Dramatic column for Francis Crick medical research centre stands opposite international train station </p>

Brother of Spanish dealer in alleged forgery ring could be extradited to US

Court ruling must get government approval before Jesus Angel Bergantinos Diaz can be sent to New York for trial

Goya, Magritte and Cai Guo-Qiang feature in Arab art show

Qatar Museums presents key works from collection in Bank of Santander’s Madrid space

Raphael’s drawings to go on show in Oxford and Vienna

Ashmolean Museum and Albertina will join forces for exhibition in 2017

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Bridget Riley’s art helps put spin into Louisiana’s Op art show

Survey of eye- and mind-boggling works opens in Danish museum

The Met to celebrate art of Qin and Han dynasties

Show on era that shaped Chinese identity follows modern fashion blockbuster

Bombing at Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square

The explosion was in one of the city’s most popular tourist areas, close to the Obelisk of Theodosius, the Blue Mosque and the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

Artists do their bit to mark great battles of 1916

Global legacy of conflict reflected in latest 14-18 Now commissions

Artists sign up for Great War commemoration

Rebecca Warren, Ciara Phillips, Yinka Shonibare and Imran Qureshi will create new works as part of UK’s official arts programme, 14-18 Now

Local councils resist temptation to cash-in on their art—for the time being

Budgets cuts and closures across England increase fears that sell-offs will follow<br>

Fatal bomb blast in Istanbul near Blue Mosque

Suspected terrorist explosion kills ten in historic Sultanahmet

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Vik Muniz to reveal flip side of Mauritshuis’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer

Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa

Bridget Riley helps students access British Museum gems

The artist's foundation is funding a three-year project to bring the museum's drawings to students outside London

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Germany could pay $3m to borrow Tehran’s Modern art

Negotiations include huge loan fee part of which will help fund revamp of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Secrets of Miró’s Mallorcan studios to be revealed

Artist covered the walls of one in graffiti, keeping another pristine