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Visitors to Marseille's art venue, La Friche la Belle de Mai, can expect visual arts, performances, films and more in a gigantic space at the heart of the mediterranean city. Until June, they can also discover the work of the overseas French artists shaping the latest programme: "A Field of…

The Italian artist’s architectural background, the design philosophies behind his work, and why he’s a supporter of NFTs.

Stately gallery founded in 1946 in the age of high-minded modernism finally had to succumb to a new reality

Other lives: Art historian who set up an advertising agency for art galleries and became a patron of the National Portrait Gallery in London

Locations in London, New York, Barcelona and Madrid to be shut ‘after long and careful consideration’

It has 1.5m artefacts, 6m visitors, 2,000 staff – and gets by on donations. Max Hollein, the Met’s Austrian-born boss, relives his first five years, when he faced accusations of hoarding, narco-philanthropy and male dominance

Council contractor says sorry amid anger at removal of artwork of poet from an underpass in Hockley area

Amateur artists join the pros in Gateshead, Old Master pastiches go on show in London, and a bursary for young photographers is launched in memory of the Guardian’s Eamonn McCabe – all in your weekly dispatch

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