Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Nottingham Contemporary gets a new director

Sam Thorne takes the reins after joining Tate St Ives only last year

Bath-based museum needs another £61,000 to acquire rare oil sketch by Thomas Lawrence

Painting’s 19-year-old subject lined up as “poster boy” for the Holburne Museum’s centenary

Shop 'til you Pop art: Lebanese retail tycoon opens museum-mall in Beirut

At Tony Salamé’s $100m Aishti Foundation, visitors can see a major show of abstract works or shop in a string of luxury boutiques

Fiac dealers unsettled by Frieze date change

Art world will have to rethink its schedule as London fair moves earlier in the month

Newcomers shake up Paris art fair scene dominated by Fiac

Paris Internationale and Asia Now look to attract art world footfall

Prizesnews

British artist bags $50,000 Calder Prize

Haroon Mirza is honoured for his audio compositions that fuse sound and light

International dealers flock to Paris Fiac

The fair returns to rival Frieze across the channel

Arabian art space moves east

Gentrification in Battersea forces Middle Eastern arts foundation to look for another home

Iran’s artists begin to shine on London stage

Country's artists are reaping the benefits of a diplomatic thaw between Iran and the West

Yes! We have no bananas—but there's plenty of bronze veg in Vauxhall

PLUS: Get your private parts painted in public at Frieze, dealers have their say on if Renoir is crap, working the aisles with Graham Norton and David Furnish and more fair gossip

John Hoyland revival gathers Pace

Damien Hirst has given John Hoyland a helping hand, as has the mega gallery

No phones allowed at Arcadia Missa

PLUS: A high-tech waterfall flows at Frieze, marmots are a video artist's best friend, the ICA embraces Japanese acid punk and more fair gossip

Do Ho Suh’s joined-up thinking for Cincinnati

South Korean artist's fabric sculpture impress at Frieze

China show for Vuitton museum

Beijing's Ullens Center to help co-organise Paris exhibition

Saudi art students break nude taboo

Artist Abdulnasser Gharem filmed "life-drawing" class in school that he founded

Independent art fair sprouts in Brussels

More than 35 dealers confirmed for the inaugural Belgian edition of the New York offshoot

Why the Dhaka Art Summit only lasts for four days

Founders explain that $2m production costs and import fees limit the length of ‘the world’s largest non-commercial platform for South Asian art’

Prizesnews

New art prize and public garden to mark Hepworth Wakefield’s fifth birthday

The collector David Roberts is backing the £30,000 biennial award for contributions to sculpture

Private fortunes drive Beirut’s museum boom

Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano and David Adjaye get involved as donors step in to fill the funding gap

Centre Pompidou president promises pop-ups in Korea and China

Exhibitions on the Beat Generation, Beirut and Arte Povera also in the pipeline

Lawnews

Tuymans and photographer reach amicable agreement in copyright case

The legal case raised copyright concerns about an artist’s right to use news pictures

Lyons is all about the big issues of modern life

Immigration, consumerism and the downside of the digital revolution are among the topical themes of the 13th biennial

Artists to work with Zurich’s workforce for Manifesta 2016

Christian Jankowski’s plans for the roving European biennial include a floating water venue, projects with local tradesmen and sumptuous Swiss dishes