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Often disregarded in the world of fine arts, traditional crafts are at the heart of this year's Also Known as Africa (AKAA) art fair in Paris. For its tenth edition, the celebration of contemporary African creation is blurring distinctions between artisans and artists to bring workmanship to the fore.

These rich and chic manicures mirror the flavours in a bow-wrapped chocolate box - and yes, they look almost good enough to eat

Ireland is giving €325 a week to artists. Honestly!

Event seated guests near Parthenon marbles, which Greece wants returned, and raised £2.5m for museum

Other lives: Long-serving arts director at Nottinghamshire county council who helped transform the region’s cultural landscape

Illustration of ‘old sultan’ by surrealist artist found at a house clearance sale by Cambridge antiques dealer

Acquired in 1944, it has never reappeared on the market until now

Artwork that vanished en route from Madrid to Granada seemingly never made it on to van in first place

Deng Majek followed Whyte to a train station near the hotel where she worked before stabbing her 23 times

Artes Mundi kicks off in Cardiff as JMW hits Liverpool, Germany’s photography star unveils his latest epics and acclaimed abstractionist Wool tries not to unravel

Exclusive: Rob Munday claims he is co-creator of 2004 images but Levine has called him only a collaborator