Project opens with four-year backing from AKO Foundation to acquire Sámi and Inuit art from Northern Europe

From the best pizza in town to a picturesque island

From cocoa-covered creations, to spaceships and rotting fruit, here is our selection of top shows from the first preview day

Ruth Patir says that she and the curators will not open exhibition until Israel and Hamas reach “a ceasefire and hostage release agreement"

The artist says artistic director Adriano Pedrosa’s "dangerous slogan" reinforces the Italian government’s anti-migrant stance

Religious works, restored by conservation experts, will be returned to the historic cathedral on the Seine

Ignacy Czwartos will present 15 paintings in an exhibition entitled Polonia Uncensored—close to the Giardini site

The commission for the controversial Unravel show reflects geopolitical themes

The German-born curator will step back from his new role as Capodimonte museum director

Conservative Robert Jenrick argues that proposed long term loans of disputed works is a legal fabrication

The artist’s visit to the UK seaside town prompted him to pull out of the original commission that would have seen the works housed in a New York restaurant

The Voices of Resilience project was scrapped following complaints from a local organisation representing a significant part of the Jewish community

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula painting will take centre stage in a forthcoming show at the National Gallery

The public art piece at The Peninsula was produced by a team of engineers and technical designers

Our round-up of the latest art publications

As the art historian makes the move into fiction writing, she tells us how learning about her family history inspired her

Local heritage group decries the "biennialisation of the city" after gallery paid a fee to stage the Manolo Valdés installation

Hong Kong’s huge cultural quarter has been spectacularly successful at pulling in tourists and shows, but with its endowment running out, it needs to find new financial solutions

Musée National Picasso in Paris to loan more than 60 works to M+ museum

Predominance of new generation reflects an emerging trend across Asia

Digital challenges and the social and economic changes sparked by cultural transformation are among issues aired

Simon Roberts’s work incorporates mortality figures and contributions from key politicians

Publication on École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts was reprinted without text on former director Jean-Marc Bustamante

Heirs of the German banker Franz Koenigs claim the works housed at the Courtauld Gallery should be restituted

Customs processes to be streamlined to boost the domestic art market and simplify the importing of art and antiques in the wake of Brexit

Mary Archer to try and identify how arm’s length funding body can make 5% saving

Ahead of a new show in Florence, the German artist talks of good and evil, his Sieg Heil salutes, the eradication of borders through climate change, burning paintings, the fickleness of fame and why size doesn’t matter

The new sculptures will be unveiled on the Trafalgar Square site in 2026 and 2028

Andrea Jahn will leave her post four months after Breitz's show was cancelled over her views on the conflict in Gaza

Anya Gallaccio and Diana Puntar are among those who have submitted proposals for the work, which will reportedly be unveiled in 2026