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Frédéric Jousset warns smaller institutions especially are lagging behind their European counterparts

As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about drugs, orgies and psychoanalysis

Number of traditional skills considered critically endangered jumps to 72 but other crafts are making a comeback

"I was ready to pass away."

Pioneering American video, installation and media artist who used television as her enduring material

Play edited from 150 hours of interviews shows how working-class communities are always subject to the whims of global market forces – be those of steel or the art world

Groundbreaking Swiss-Cameroonian curator would have been the first African woman to head up the art event

A cultural project rooted in the Highland landscape is the venue for a forthcoming exhibition which brings together four UK-based artists whose work…

Other lives: Art conservationist and lecturer who advised on treatment of paintings by artists including Francis Bacon and Edvard Munch

Yes, I’d be mortified if it was my son who’d scratched the £42m work. But talk of limiting access to great art is just wrongheaded, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Faced with the rising cost of living, many students at the prestigious Ecole du Louvre art history school in Paris are finding themselves struggling financially. Its director has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help students focus on their studies rather than worry about paying their rent.