The top prize of £110,000 will go to an exhibition that will take place in the next three years, with £30,000 awarded directly to the winning artist

Artists, poets and writers will also respond to statues of William Beckford and Sir John Cass following the introduction of the UK's "retain and explain" policy

The committee voted to protect ancient sites in China, Iran, the West Bank and along the historic Silk Road, but Venice was not included

The group, brought in by UK housing secretary Michael Gove, will oversee the council's accounts following the announcement earlier in September that it was facing serious financial difficulties

The celebratory event marked a major milestone in a process begun in 2004; the new building is expected to be complete in 2028

Organisers, speakers and curators see the most diverse festival to date as a chance to demonstrate that art history is central to education and to reading the signals of modern life

After a protest in front of the museum’s main entrance, 16 activists were arrested after further actions inside the museum

Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the historic centre of Lviv join Odesa on Unesco’s endangered list

Seized in a violent raid in 2020, returned in a blue Ikea bag—now being bought back from the insurer

Plus, Michelangelo at the Albertina in Vienna and Julianknxx at the Barbican in London

Meanwhile Eloise Hawser, a sculptor and mixed media artist, has been awarded the annual David and Yuko Juda Art Foundation grant

Many of the biggest art museums in New York and elsewhere have raised the price of general admission to $30, while others continue to pursue free-entry policies

Art world figures, meanwhile, have continued to question the relevance of the approach

The Art Fund also reveals a drop in teachers taking students to institutions since the pandemic

Blue Shield workers have been able to access and gather evidence in destroyed cultural buildings and heritage sites in Ukraine. What have they found?

Appeal brings artists and institutions together to raise funds to support survivors and long-term reconstruction

A new exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi brings together some of the oldest and most important religious manuscripts from Judaism, Christianity and Islam to show the deep connections between the three faiths

Three years ago, 'The Parsonage garden at Nuenen in Spring' was taken in a smash-and-grab raid in Laren

The work honours the artist and activist Khadija Saye who died in the fire in 2017

Affected sites include the Tinmel mosque in the High Atlas Mountains, which is feared to have been almost completely destroyed

New museum director hopes to appeal to younger audiences though selfie sticks are still off limits

The Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is displaying an exhibition that pays homage to the unsung influence and secret history of Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen

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