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Works by Rachel Whiteread and Cornelia Parker to be shown for the first time in Saudi Arabia

British Council exhibition organised by six emerging Saudi women curators breaks new ground

Anglo(art)phile Hilton Als to organise series of contemporary shows at the Yale Center for British Art

American author and critic has chosen painters Celia Paul, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Peter Doig for successive solo exhibitions starting next year

Ai Weiwei’s refugee film Human Flow picked up by Amazon

The media production arm of the online retailer giant plans to release the documentary theatrically this autumn and stream it online

Gold breastplate given to the Queen is unveiled at Buckingham Palace

Pre-Columbian treasure, presented by Panamanian president in 1953, could date from as early as AD700

The Met might return another ancient vase to Italy

A fourth-century BC terracotta krater was turned over to the DA’s office last week based on evidence it was looted

Thieves damage Koki Tanaka work at Sculpture Projects Münster

Police are investigating a burglary in the latest incident of crime at festival

Warburg Institute appoints the V&A’s Bill Sherman as director

Scholar says the library founded by Aby Warburg “badly needs some profile raising”

Miami patron Dennis Scholl becomes chief executive of ArtCenter/South Florida

Seasoned collector takes charge at the little-known non-profit, which has an $88m endowment

Christie’s to hold first Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art sale in London

Auction house cuts Dubai October series as it looks to “internationalise” the sector's market

Javier Pes to step down as editor of The Art Newspaper

He has been with the publication for almost a decade

What Thomas Campbell did next: ex-Met chief decamps to LA for research fellowship

As beneficiary of the Getty Rothschild award, the tapestries scholar will contemplate where the culture sector is heading

Arts group restages historic civil rights protest in New York

100 years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP organised the Silent Parade against racial discrimination

V&A to recapture glamour and high design of luxury ocean liners

Exhibition in 2018 will show fragment of Titanic first-class lounge and works by Le Corbusier and Stanley Spencer

New UK sculpture triennial gains momentum for 2019 opening

Yorkshire Sculpture International exhibition at four partner venues secures Arts Council backing

Italian high court gives green light to Colosseum archaeological park

Council of State says government can consider non-Italians for new director post

Turin’s new industrial arts complex prepares for 'big bang' launch

Artists William Kentridge and Tino Sehgal lined up for OGR centre in historic railway workshops

Richard Deacon fills the Royal Academy’s ‘sculpture ledge’

Works by more than 20 Academicians installed in Sackler Galleries in time for Matisse show

Ren Hang’s provocative photographs feature in Shanghai Photofairs’ new Spotlight section

Images by late photographer were last works to be authenticated by artist before his death

The arts festival erupting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Walk & Talk includes exhibitions and performances on the Portuguese volcanic islands of the Azores

Paris exhibition and auction throw spotlight on refugee NGOs in France

Works by Cindy Sherman and Glenn Ligon to go on show at the Palais de Tokyo and on the block in Christie’s sale

Gurlitt bequest spurs provenance research in Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Bern has taken possession of first works from controversial collection of Nazi-era art due to go on show in November

Artists including Mona Hatoum design prayer rugs for San Francisco show

Visitors will be able to sit on 36 wool rugs arranged across the floor of a former interfaith chapel

Three Francis Bacon works stolen in Madrid recovered by Spanish police

Paintings were seized following a tip-off from the Art Loss Register

Private museum of Arab art in the pipeline for Beirut

Pop-up shows and international loans will pave the way for 2020 opening

Neil MacGregor extends contract at Berlin's Humboldt Forum

The former British Museum chief, appointed as founding director in 2015, will steer the project to completion

Portrait of the mystery man behind Castello di Rivoli’s £450m art loan

Federico Cerruti was extraordinary in his extreme ordinariness and austerity

Major Modern Russian collection heads to Fondation Louis Vuitton

After Shchukin show, private Paris museum cements Franco-Russian relationship with exhibition of blue-chip works bought by Morozov brothers