Overtures include Louvre director’s planned visit to Tehran, while Italy lends classical sculpture

Spain could claim painting in private collection seized from banker's super yacht

New director will arrive as trade union steps up campaign to oppose privatisation of security staff

Outgoing head takes tough decision to introduce charging after funding cut

Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek puts curiosity before crowd pleasing spectacles

Okwui Enwezor and Adam Szymczyk among those urging museums working in the Gulf to do more to help lift travel restrictions

Transformation of Manchester University's art gallery earns it £100,000 Art Fund prize

Jury picks Moreau Kusunoki's design of pavilions beneath "lighthouse" with potential to grow <br>

Bearded and berobed figures inspired artists including Schiele and Beuys

Leading directors and curators express support of artists Walid Raad and Ashok Sukumaran <br>

Architectural competition launched to convert flour mill and grain silos into galleries and super store<br>

Promised increase to help run extension made quietly last year as public spending cuts expected elsewhere

Support grows for Walid Raad and other Gulf Labor members<br>

Dutch national museum of art and history sets new record as more than half a million people visit Late Rembrandt exhibition

Los Angeles-based artist who pushed performances and sculpture to extreme limits and illuminated Lacma

France takes the lead as calls grow for co-ordinated response after attacks by fanatics on Assyrian royal cities

National Trust staff and firefighters salvage paintings and furniture but much is feared lost

Abraham Cruzvillegas asks London’s parks to dig for art’s sake

Unesco assesses damage to Kathmandu Valley’s World Heritage Sites and Italy offers expert help

Chris Dercon will stay in London until summer 2017 as extension approaches completion

Exhibition accompanied by app that’s “like Tinder for buildings”—but will Finnish public be seduced?

New York University promises to close “compliance gap” on Saadiyat Island as museum projects come under fresh scrutiny

Camille Henrot and Laure Prouvost are fast-risers but only 19 women feature in top 100