Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Sharjah Biennial looks beyond UAE with a year-long programme across five cities

Off-site events in Beirut, Dakar, Istanbul and Ramallah and a new digital platform will explore environmental themes

Farideh Lashai’s Goya-inspired digital epic to go on show at the British Museum

Late Iranian artist’s piece will first go on show at the Prado alongside the Spanish artist's work

Palestine biennial to focus on themes of return and refuge

Richard Bell’s Tent Embassy protest piece will go on show in a refugee camp as part of Qalandiya International <br>

Three to see: Vienna

From dog bites at Viennacontemporary to Pop portraits at the Albertina

Manuel Rabaté appointed director of Louvre Abu Dhabi

Jean Nouvel-designed $1bn museum is due to open next year

Hassan Sharif, the godfather of conceptual art in the Gulf, has died

Emirati who created constructivist drawings and performance pieces in the desert was “probably the greatest artist from the UAE”<br>

Iranian artist Iran Darroudi funds major new museum in Tehran—to show her works

City authorities are backing the venue which will house almost 200 works by the veteran painter<br>

Show of Lebanon-based Syrian artists to open underneath London train station

Films and paintings have been created with refugees who have crossed the border<br>

Leading Istanbul galleries join forces for new Gallery Weekend

Fourteen dealers aim to bring “positive energy” to the city in wake of failed coup <br> <br>

La Biennale des Antiquaires, the grande dame of art fairs, gets a facelift

Reactions to Paris fair revamp have been positive but US collectors stay away due to Tefaf and terrorism

Three to see: London Design Biennale

From an experimental snowmobile to toe chopsticks and Proustian sweets<br>

Nicholas Serota to leave Tate after three decades in charge

Director to remain in public service as chair of Arts Council England

Lucy and Jorge Orta give us a flavour of how much food we consume and waste in new show

Exhibition in Peterborough is&nbsp; dedicated to the couple’s initiatives on the “politics of food”<br> <br>

Tehran’s Modern art collection to make first stop among Berlin’s Old Masters

Gemäldegalerie to show works by Pollock and Rothko bought before Iranian Revolution

Simon Fujiwara teams up with former Harrow teacher who became tabloid news

Artist’s film on Joanne Salley will be shown at the Photographers' Gallery in London<br> <br>

Crackdown in Turkey after coup attempt

Artists and cultural figures among thousands being detained

Mosaic of drawings by North Korean refugees lights up the Thames

Ik-Joong Kang’s floating sculpture focuses on the reunification of North and South Korea

Royal Academy to stage major Jasper Johns retrospective

Exhibition at London institution will tackle “different chapters” of artist’s vast canon spanning more than 60 years<br> <br>

Fairsnews

Biennale des Antiquaires draws new blood from Old Masters

Historic fair revamps exhibitor list after merger with Paris Tableau

Hopes are high for new director of Hong Kong’s M+ museum

Suhanya Raffel will take up the challenging role in November, following the departure of Lars Nittve

Christoph Büchel's plans to build supermarket in Düsseldorf museum axed

K21 cancels project because Swiss conceptual artist’s ideas became too “complicated"<br> <br>

High-profile patron Tiqui Atencio turns the spotlight on her fellow collectors with new book

Publication includes interviews with almost 100 art-world figures such as Maja Hoffmann and Damien Hirst<br> <br>

Parviz Tanavoli unveils his largest ever work at Toronto’s Aga Khan museum

Iranian artist, who faced a travel ban in July, will also show the biggest Heech sculpture in the show<br>

Serpentine Sackler Gallery to mount major Zaha Hadid show

Paintings, drawings and digital art by the late British-Iraqi architect will be exhibited at London institution this winter<br> <br>

Olympic boxer Joe Joyce puts paint—as well as people—on canvas

Super-heavyweight silver medallist, who arrives home today with Team GB, is an artist with a penchant for Picasso<br> <br>

Dambulla temple in Sri Lanka will not be stripped of Unesco world heritage status

Organisation issues statement after international press raised concerns that the holy site could be delisted<br> <br>

Three to see: Edinburgh Art Festival

Damián Ortega gets down-and-dirty at the Fruitmarket Gallery, while searing-selfies unsettle at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery