France's latest deal with the Kingdom reveals the close connection between culture and foreign affairs

Art critic Ben Luke gives us his take on this year's nominees

Christie's sale of 46 works from La Salle collection will diminish the museum and its academic programme

Slick marketing produced stupendous sale price for Salvator Mundi, but it sparked revulsion as well as elation

It’s time to stop letting the controversy over Jimmie Durham’s ancestry overshadow his art

Britain will pay a high price if its creative industries are ignored in negotiations to leave the European Union

Sam Durant’s Scaffold is a powerful work that should provoke anger about the death penalty, not the artist’s ethnicity

Damien Hirst’s exhibition in Venice this summer is part of a long tradition of counterfeiting history—but the UK artist has added a contemporary twist

With Italy’s historic reform of its museums’ leadership at risk in the courts, what we need is a more collaboration not less

An exclusive extract from a new book about the ideas and practice of Studio Olafur Eliasson places projects including Ice Watch, Green Light and Little Sun into a bigger context

Project helping migrants and refugees would be diminished if it was a sideshow

There is a downside to dropping the age limit of 50 for qualifying artists

A former minister of antiquities’ statement that ancient artefacts legally exported should stay abroad is a welcome change in attitude

Leading architects can help to revive a city’s image but cultural institutions need long-term support to shine brightly

The controversy over Dana Schutz's Open Casket is like a scene depicted in another of her paintings: a fight in an elevator with worn cables

The world’s greatest museum of decorative arts has been without a ceramics expert since 2016 and other gaps in knowledge are opening up

Why museums are falling victim to fakers: expertise is undervalued and in decline

As an exhibition of photographs of Jeremy Deller’s project We’re Here Because We’re Here begins its tour of the UK, Jenny Waldman reflects on how this modern memorial caught the nation’s imagination

If culture agencies dodge the fatal bullet, they should focus on collection-sharing and investment in bricks and mortar

A stroke of a ministerial pen saved Liverpool’s collections 35 years ago—the same needs to happen again

Project to repair Anglican building brought Muslims and Christians together

Expert opinions concerning attribution and authenticity are fundamental to art history

Belgian capital is being hyped as the next big art hub but it still lacks a proper "scene"

Jordan Wolfson’s sculptures depend heavily on special effects studios

The conversations are better, the public is enthusiastic, and there is enough, but not too much art—and it’s good

After years of delay, the UK government is on track to become a world leader in wartime heritage protection