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Attempted terrorist attack at Karnak; chaos on the Cooper Union board; Sleeping Beauty found in Ethiopian tomb; and the new Garage Museum
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British Museum highlights could be sent to Abu Dhabi; Iranian artist imprisoned for ‘insulting the Supreme Leader’; MoMA staff stage protests
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Fighting continues in Palmyra; Tania Bruguera is detained in Havana; Richard Prince raids Instagram
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Fears for Palmyra as Islamic State militants seize neighbouring town; Anne Pasternak takes over at the Brooklyn Museum; Abramovic and Jay Z have a very public spat
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Chris Burden dies aged 69; the Royal Academy gets a redesign; architects crash the Turner Prize
Made in China: the ‘fake’ Fragonard that fooled Dulwich
Doug Fishbone hid a cheap Chinese replica in the Dulwich Picture Gallery and hardly anybody noticed
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Cultural sites severely damaged in Nepal; major fire rips through Clandon Park; Museum of Biblical Art forced to close in New York
The destruction of Nimrud is a crime against humanity
Islamic State has posted a video online that appears to show the destruction of the Assyrian city
The Week’s Muse: 11 April
Tiffany Jenkins on Neil MacGregor’s exceptional leadership; Kader Attia on the archival impulse; Jack Orlik on the distinction between art and architecture
The Week’s Muse: 4 April
News and comment from our April issue: Thomas Marks and John Curtis on the cultural desecration of Iraq; Don Quixote in NYC; plus, should the Kunstmuseum Bern have accepted the Gurlitt bequest?
The Drawing Biennial is back
The fundraising exhibition and auction has emerged, somewhat paradoxically, as a highlight in the gallery’s programme
The Week’s Muse: 21 March
Bardo museum shooting; Regional museums in crisis; Changing times for Helsinki’s museums; Richard Long on mud and mark-making; and art fair highlights
Terror attack at Tunisia’s Bardo Museum
Nineteen people are reported dead and more injured in an attack on the Tunis museum
TEFAF Treasures
An early Mondrian hidden among Old Masters; Auerbach’s striking self-portrait; and a curious Collector’s Cabinet
The Week’s Muse: 14 March
Fire at the Battersea Arts Centre; Why ‘avant-garde’ is a slippery term; and what’s wrong with the BBC’s Big Painting Challenge
Fire at the Battersea Arts Centre
The north side of the grade II listed building has been destroyed in a major blaze
The Week’s Muse: 7 March
The iconoclasm of the Islamic State; highlights from TEFAF; the many sides of Paul Durand-Ruel; Britain’s top art school graduates; and the latest museum acquisitions
Islamic State militants take bulldozers to the ancient city of Nimrud
The assault on Iraq’s history is another front in ISIL’s war
The Week’s Muse: 28 February
View Festival of Art History; the Christie’s purchase of Collectrium; Mark Scala on Telling Tales
‘View’ Part Two: what to expect from this year’s art history festival
We spoke to Adélia Sabatini and Joséphine Seblon about the programme
Review: ‘John Golding: Finding the Absolute’ at Piano Nobile
Golding’s rediscovered abstract paintings are the perfect choice to inaugurate Piano Nobile’s new space
The Week’s Muse: 14 February
Hiroshi Sugimoto on fossils and photos; In praise of postcards; The unlikely success of Fig-2; Five highlights from the Wadsworth; Tàpies in focus
Avert your Eyes: Censored Art Masterpieces
The Picasso painting censored by Fox 5 News is just the latest major artwork to be deemed indecent