Auction house buys art advisers in surprise $85m deal

Academic Olav Velthuis says growing a scene is “hard and tedious; but once it gets going it gets easier”

Event has been repositioned as “the” place to see South Asian art

Danish parliament has approved plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees entering the country

Lectures and courses are designed to further careers of arts professionals

Government hopes a public collection can match £5.2m asking price for Ferdinand Bol’s Portrait of a Boy

Evan Hughes, son of founder Ray, is closing the Hughes Gallery and running for office

Christine Tohmé says her application was suspended because of ties to culture sector

Five years after the uprisings in Cairo, the spirit of the protests lives on in cultural projects

The Well Fair sees artist duo create a “reversed power relationship”

33-year-old's works were on show at Maison européenne de la Photographie shortly before she was killed

Installation accompanies death objects exhibition

Inaugural show will focus on the objects that individual Palestinians would never part with

162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder

Original owners say shell should be demolished after 95% of the English Palladian mansion’s interior was destroyed

Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic

French press partners pull out of sale “in the name of freedom of expression” following lobbying from Israeli embassy

Condo event offers international colleagues an alternative to expensive art fairs

Chris Dercon to depart after opening of new extension