Leaders of foreign museums have joined Polish colleagues in condemning the removal of Joanna Wasilewska from her role at Warsaw’s Asia and Pacific Museum

Damaging any of the sites inscribed in the agency's new list qualifies as a ‘serious violation’ to the 1954 Hague Convention

We ask leading art world figures about their hopes and concerns, and discuss what the future has in store for museums, the art market and artists with our long-term contributors Cristina Ruiz, Georgina Adam and Louisa Buck

The Museum of Repressed Writers in Tbilisi was created to remember the creatives who were silenced by the Soviet Union. But, after months of political tension, the future of the museum hangs in the balance

The sculpture, which depicts a daughter of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, is the second out-of-state item to be seized by the Antiquities Trafficking Unit

The funds will benefit organisations including Glasgow Women’s Library and Studio Voltaire

The work will appear on the facades of two museums on the Mall, a “very resonant location for democracy in America”

Residents, students and visitors in Airbnb properties will be exempt from the scheme, which will be implemented next spring

By 2100 the water-level will ring rise one metre, and yet it aims to block UNESCO in-danger listing

Paul Thompson will have a full in-tray when he takes over, as the organisation has suffered from a significant funding shortfall in recent years, leading to staff strikes

The advisory commission said it sees the current framework as “unsatisfactory” and “in need of an urgent overhaul”

Objects handed over as part of the extensive repatriation project include shell dolls, bark baskets and spear throwers

Around 200,000 Yazidis remain displaced following attacks, and efforts to restore shrines and other buildings have stalled due to ongoing security concerns and a lack of funding

Two New York institutions are overhauling their education facilities, while others test a digital-first style of art pedagogy

The Scottish museum confirmed it will not be returning the £500,000 it received before opening in 2018

The treasures singled out so far include the Mold Gold Cape and Moel Hebog shield

Both posts are part of an initative to redefine the institution's “existing collection of art and offer new perspectives on global art histories”

The museum had recently revised public information about the sculpture, likely a depiction of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, in an apparent attempt to distance itself from its alleged looting

The embattled institution is yet to announce an interim director after the resignation of Hartwig Fischer

The new space at the Tasmanian institution will also include other “treasures” according to Walsh's wife, curator and artist Kirsha Kaechele

Archaeologists at the pre-Hispanic site of Palenque discovered the finely carved artefact, believed to be at least 1,100 years old

The septuagenarian artist, best known for her large-scale wire rope installations, has experienced a resurgence of attention from institutions and curators in recent years

The architect’s son is selling the Modernist summer house and a trust hopes to raise the funds to buy it

Vladislav Polenov first made the news after he was drafted in the partial mobilisation launched by President Vladimir Putin last September

Art publications such as The Art Newspaper could offer to publish free-to-access illustrated lists of the 1,500 or more artefacts, says art adviser Ivan Macquisten

A man was arrested following the action, which was organised by the Canadian activist group On2Ottawa

Article in The Global Times also criticises the UK’s ‘bloody, ugly, and shameful colonial history’

To make the British Museum fit for the 21st century it must create a comprehensive publicly accessible database of its entire collection, argues Dan Hicks, curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford

With his first official solo show in 14 years, Banksy left his tag on the Scottish city, home to the mysterious street artist's favourite work of art in the UK

Other Greek treasures would come to London in exchange for a loan of the contested sculptures