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Honolulu Art Museum sues collector; Germany’s proposed heritage law draws more fire; UK seeks to save its ‘Sekhemka’ statue

Public helps Tate identify mystery landmarks in John Piper photographs

Recognise any of these?

How Edmund de Waal came to love the colour white

The artist is to curate a show about the colour at the Royal Academy

An Art History Lesson from Bridget Riley at the De La Warr Pavilion

‘I was looking at Cézanne along Matisse’s lines’

UK government extends export bar on £16 million Sekhemka statue

Will anyone step forward to buy the work for the nation?

The Gardner Museum Theft 25 Years On

The FBI may know who stole them, but the location of 13 masterpieces remains a mystery

Robin Hood Gardens and the politics of regeneration

Debates about the estate’s future tend to ignore the residents

The great contemporary art hidden in York’s historic buildings

For cutting edge culture, head straight for the church

‘Restoring the National Gallery’s political reputation will be a hard task’

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Maurice Davies on the challenge facing Gabriele Finaldi

London Diary

London is now stuck in the August doldrums. I’d complain about it more if only I could muster the energy

A Necessary Realism: Interview with Luc Tuymans

‘When I paint I don’t want to think any more.’

London can’t make up its mind about its Brutalist past

The city’s post-war concrete blocks have always divided opinion. But is the new stuff any better?

What happens if you unwittingly buy a looted artefact?

We ask a legal expert for their advice to concerned collectors

Art Outlook

All-out strike at the National Gallery; Gulf Labor in Venice; €80million for cultural projects in Italy; and a new Global CEO for Bonhams

Italian government invests €80million in heritage sites

The headline winners are the Uffizi and the Colosseum

Are the National Gallery strikes just the beginning?

However this issue is resolved, it won’t be the last such confrontation

Picasso painting seized from super-yacht in Corsica

The incident raises difficult questions about private collectors and national interests

Iranian nuclear deal brings hope for artists

On 15 July, the day after the historic Iranian nuclear deal was reached, the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond told the…

Five highlights from the Edinburgh Art Festival – and two to miss

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It’s a patchy programme this year, but a few projects stand out

Arguments Between Artists and Patrons

Does Jeff Koons own the concept of a balloon dog? And why did Lucian Freud turn Jerry Hall into a man?

Human Nature: the unsettling work of Piero di Cosimo

Since Vasari’s day, Piero has been treated as if he were a primitive ‘outsider’ artist

Acquisitions of the Month: July 2015

Which major works have made it into public collections this month?

Jonathan Ruffer’s grand plans for Auckland Castle

He’s saved the castle’s Zurbarán paintings; now he wants to transform the town into a hub for Spanish art

Book Competition

Your chance to win ‘Van Gogh: The Birth of an Artist’, by Sjraar van Heugten