Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Swiss artist will make you dance to the music of fireflies and time

Robin Meier’s immersive installation is the Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet’s first commission

Why curators can't get enough of Marcel Broodthaers

The late Belgian poet and conceptual artist is due to get his first US retrospective since 1989 at MoMA next year

Artnews

Salvador Dalí show heads to Shanghai

Surrealism comes to K11 art space in move to promote understanding of intellectual property rights

Cleopatra comes to Singapore

Asian branch of the Pinacothèque de Paris opens with eye on the box office

Lawnews

Iranian artist sentenced to 12 years in prison

Atena Farghadani punished after depicting politicians as animals

Guaranteed to smash records: Manhattan sales set new highs

Almost $2.5bn was spent on art in just six evening auctions last month, as the market is pushed to new levels for trophy works

Solo Calder show is a first for Russia

Artist’s grandson welcomes ‘long overdue’ retrospective at the Pushkin featuring more than 50 works

A Home for interdisciplinary art opens in Manchester

The inaugural exhibition at the new $25m arts complex in northern England focuses on affairs of the heart

Pompidou outposts to pop-up across China?

The new president of the Paris museum was in China last week to discuss joint projects with Chinese officials

In New York auctions $2bn already spent but no one is that surprised

Most works at Christie’s auction on Wednesday were guaranteed to sell including Lucian Freud's reclining nude, which fetched an ample price

New York's Museum of Modern Art plans big Broodthaers show

Belgian Conceptual artist subject of exhibitions in Paris and Eindhoven

Theaster Gates to open cultural space in former bank in Chicago

Stony Island Arts Bank will launch during the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial

With $1.45 billion already spent at auctions, it could be a record-breaking week in New York

Sotheby’s totalled $379.7m for its contemporary art auction on Tuesday evening, while Christie's raised $705.9m the night before

Who's bankrolling the Venice Biennale?

Putting on an event of this size is an expensive business—and increasingly it is dealers, collectors and foundations that are stumping up

Five of the best exhibitions around Venice

Shows worth checking out beyond the Arsenale and Giardini<br>

Iraq War and rise of Islamic State under scrutiny in the Iraq Pavilion

Curator says the show is made in response to the “manifest impossibility of making art in the country”

India and Pakistan’s historic Biennale collaboration

The historically-conflicting nations come together for the first time in this highly-anticipated exhibition

Row over Old Masters flares up in Madrid

National heritage office says the Prado should hand over four paintings for new Royal Collections museum

Minister hails revamped Egyptian Museum as shining example

Turin-style reforms could take place across Italy as soon as a dozen new directors are appointed