Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

Chinese billionaire to build 17 shopping centres and fill them with art

Adrian Cheng’s “museum-retail art malls” to open across China

Turner prize nominee hands out housewarming sculptures to west London estate residents

Nathan Coley’s apple tree works draw on the turbulent history of the former Frestonia community

Author’s art show is the write stuff

Michel Houellebecq exhibition will fill Palais de Tokyo but Paris institution keeping nature of works under wrap

Nuclear deal paves way for cultural diplomacy with Iran

Overtures include Louvre director’s planned visit to Tehran, while Italy lends classical sculpture

French culture ministry on the move?

Relocation could take place in two years’ time

Palestinian Museum draws diaspora together

Collection, which launches on Nakba Day, focuses on personal memories

New festival to celebrate England’s northern art stars

Warrington event will include works inspired by retail giant Ikea

Turner Prize hits the road

Show of works by Scottish prizewinners and nominees will travel in a bus across Scotland

Vatican fundraising: there’s an app for that

Patrum aims to bring in donations for restoration projects, and connect patrons around the world

Collector turns Ibiza salt warehouse into Modern art gallery

Clubbers’ paradise is turning into unlikely culture destination

Ground-breaking Bihar Museum opens in east India

First phase of women-led project includes children’s and orientation galleries

Cabinet gallery’s new Vauxhall home stands on Pleasure Gardens of the past

The purpose-built, five-storey building is backed by arts patron Charles Asprey

Cindy Sherman steps into Maria Callas's stage clothes

Artist plays role of ageing diva with Francesco Vezzoli in director’s chair

Plan foiled to sail off with portrait by Picasso

Spain could claim painting in private collection seized from banker's super yacht

Azeri non-profit Yarat gets a new artistic director

Bjorn Geldhof will continue to run programmes at Kiev’s Pinchuk Art Centre until the end of the year

Underground art by Eduardo Paolozzi saved from destruction

The late artist’s celebrated mosaics displayed at Tottenham Court Road tube will be restored at Edinburgh University

Tate Britain gets a new director

The appointment of Alex Farquharson, director of Nottingham Contemporary, is welcomed by artists and critics

Australian gambling millionaire acquires acclaimed oil installation

Richard Wilson’s 20:50 work will leave the Saatchi Gallery in London, and head for David Walsh’s museum in Tasmania—but may go on a world tour first

Have passport, will travel: where will Ai Weiwei go?

The Chinese artist-activist is due to visit Berlin, London and Melbourne

Artists install in Fukushima’s radioactive zone

Exhibition may not be accessible for decades

Paris dealer opens sculpture park on Côte d'Azur

More than 30 works feature on trail of valleys and lakes

Private collector adds performance space to London gallery

David Roberts to show more ”live projects” in his Camden building—and may launch initiatives outside the capital

Newly expanded Lambert Collection reopens with gifts from Abdessemed and Vezzoli

Museum has doubled its exhibition space in historic headquarters in Avignon

Henry Moore's 'Old Flo' belongs to east London council, High Court rules

New mayor of Tower Hamlets scraps disgraced predecessor's decision to sell public sculpture

Whitechapel to host UK's most comprehensive exhibition of Arab art

Series of shows will include more than 100 works drawn from the Barjeel Art Foundation

Greek museums forced to close as funding runs out

“Cultural institutions on brink,” says curator of main exhibition at Thessaloniki Biennale

Head of France's most prestigious art school abruptly dismissed

French culture minister decides its time to replace Nicolas Bourriaud who was caught by "surprise"

Fontana as you’ve never seen him before

HangarBicocca show in Milan will throw new light on artist’s walk-in installations