Exhibition inspired by oceans opening this week will be the last for “some time”

The South African photographer also gets career survey at Centre Pompidou, Paris

Mass MoCA has planned massive, long-term shows on artists such as Jenny Holzer and James Turrell

The government money helped launch an initiative that has raised $1.2m in private funding

France’s former culture minister among candidates to be new director-general

Preserved by Saxon elders and plundered by Stalin’s Red Army, textiles return to view for first time since Second World War

Major show on figurative painting at Tate Britain will feature Freud and Bacon while Tate Liverpool will host Egon Schiele survey

Gargantuan steel sculptures by French artist fill the grounds of Cliveden country house

American Numismatic Society purchased the coins with aim of tracing original owner

With the theme The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, artistic director Trevor Schoonmaker stays in tune with the history of the city, the birthplace of jazz

A trio of solo shows will inaugurate the restructured space, which aims to respect the building’s Art Deco roots

High costs and low footfall put end to non-profit institution

Gallery has attracted more than 2.3 million visitors since it opened helping to regenerate English seaside town

Building in Unter den Linden expected to open mid-2018

He has been sentenced to 180 days in a private facility, and three years of formal probation

Loan to National Gallery sparks internal debate about upgrading display of Taddei Tondo on its return

Names of 144,000 people who have died to be read out over more than a week in four cities

The site of the artist’s last great project is once again under threat

Joint programme will see pieces by artists such as Helen Johnson and Richard Bell shared between London and Sydney

Images of Cairo shot on iPhone, surreal domestic interiors and unearthed pictures of 1980s London among top photography shows opening this week

Part of photographer’s private holdings, built by swapping works with fellow artists, is on show at Photo London this week

Appointment of indie publisher Françoise Nyssen enthuses French cultural world

The historian will discuss how artists invented new forms after the brutality of the Second World War

Competition is heating up among galleries seeking to sign exclusive representation of late artists, as both heirs and dealers eye the possibilities

Published ahead of the general election in June, the UK opposition party’s manifesto includes strong support for the arts

Influential photography co-operative was not founded over a MoMA lunch, curator reveals ahead of series of exhibitions

Three-night event will be part of Shubbak festival in July

The ruling, which stipulates that all histories and religions be taken into account, could be a landmark decision

Indoor installation of falling water is so popular in China that numerous online companies are now offering to set one up in your home