Dan Duray

Artistic censorship is on the rise, advocacy group reports

A study by the Copenhagen-based organisation Freemuse paints a bleak picture for global creative expression

Reviewnews

It's alive: Philippe Parreno lights up Gladstone Gallery

The artist's latest show includes an active bioreactor

Cuban artist offers free wifi to Havana locals, with backing from Google

Kcho’s sculpture studio has been equipped with laptops, cell phones and virtual-reality goggles and is open to the public from 7am to midnight

Lucky number 13: Edinburgh Art Festival announces packed programme

The city will be taken over this summer by exhibitions and artist projects, including new work by Damián Ortega and Christian Boltanski

Barack Obama visits Havana’s historic city centre

The tour is the first by a sitting US president in 88 years

Where science and art collide

Liverpool’s Fact partners with Geneva’s Cern on an artist residency, while the artist Ryoichi Kurokawa collaborates with the astrophysicist Vincent Minier to depict the birth of stars

National Gallery of Art lands $30m grant from Mellon Foundation

Full funding will go to the museum if it raises an additional $45m on its own

What to see during Asia Week in New York

Our selection of the must see shows and sales, from a centenary celebration of Asian art collecting to contemporary Japanese architecture

Scholarly debate will be stifled after Knoedler

Abstract Expressionism experts forced to watch what they write and say

Is now the time for Sherrie Levine’s market to take off?

The conceptual artist has jumped ship to David Zwirner gallery, which is now showing her works in New York

The Armory Show: preview of New York's stalwart fair

This year's edition focuses on Africa—but its heart belongs to Manhattan

Single-artist shows and off-beat booths at this year’s ADAA Art Show

Highlights include stands dedicated to Lucas Samaras, Marilyn Minter, Sherrie Levine and Frank Stella

Cambodian warrior comes home: Denver Art Museum returns Khmer statue

The sculpture, which was probably removed from the Koh Ker temple complex during the country's civil war, is the last of its kind to leave a US public collection

Flagging market and ‘deeper’ dip in business cycle blamed for Sotheby’s grim fourth-quarter earnings

CEO Tad Smith addressed shareholder concerns over low sales and departures of key staff

Statue stolen from Mussolini’s Roman villa to be returned

The work’s current owner voluntarily turned it over to authorities

Tate Britain commissions Pablo Bronstein to fill Duveen Galleries with ‘deliciously jarring’ performances

The Buenos Aires-born, London-based is expected to draw on his interests in Baroque architecture and spectacle

Creative Time’s new director Katie Hollander outlines her vision

More ‘dream projects’, educational outreach and maybe a tv show

Fairsnews

Paris Photo LA cancelled due to low sales

French organisers pull the plug on offshoot fair, held in a Hollywood studio backlot, two months before opening

Paintings to go: Starbucks now sells art with its lattes

Works by emerging artists are available in new Chelsea branch

Top US prosecutor has art market in his sights

Actor Nicolas Cage’s return of dinosaur skull is latest victory in Preet Bharara’s campaign to police the art and antiquities trade

Taubman collection was a gamble that did not pay off for Sotheby’s

President Tad Smith reveals that the auction house expects to lose between $10m to $19m in the fourth quarter due to sale guarantees for the former owner’s art

Taubman’s final gift to the DIA will be cash not art

The institution will receive some proceeds from the sale of Old Master paintings that belonged to the late patron

ArtCenter South Florida ponders how to spend bonanza

Public works, education and residencies on the agenda

Mystery of the Basquiat sold at Christie’s for $37m

But the work is still owned by Tony Shafrazi two months later

Secret fire sale held of 250 works confiscated from dealer in Knoedler gallery scandal

Glafira Rosales’s name was not mentioned in connection with the auctions, which included pieces by Sean Scully, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Louise Lawler, Andy Warhol and Ad Reinhardt

Dozens of Sotheby’s staff take buyout option

The voluntary programme will cost the auction house around $40m after shaky sale season

United Talent Agency expands fine arts division

With the appointment of a new creative director, the firm looks to work with more artists and fund ambitious projects