We speak to the queen of performance art about casting herself in stone and to the National Portrait Gallery’s director Nicholas Cullinan about the king of pop’s influence on artists.

The painting will be lent to the Louvre in Paris next year for an exhibition marking the 500th anniversary of artist's death

Artists participating in National Portrait Gallery exhibition explain why the King of Pop matters to them

Andria Zafirakou’s Artists in Residence campaign launches as creative arts are squeezed in UK classrooms

Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg says it will represent his legacy and estate with “honour, respect and responsibility”

Sixty projects will punctuate the contemporary art trail winding through South Bank, Vauxhall and Nine Elms

Under new partnership, the London museum will lend key objects to the new institution in Abu Dhabi

French billionaire—whose collection numbers 3,000 works—has sold 130 pieces since 2000

Anger as focus turns to cause of blaze that ripped through Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece

Japanese artist is following in the footsteps of Jeff Koons

Works and archival material at several stands at the fair honour big names in the art world who have died this year

New initiatives, fair subsidies and a focus on Swiss artists help dealers to adapt

Winning a prize can give an artist international exposure, but the question of who really benefits—critically and commercially—is an increasingly vexed one

Is the UK’s premier award a big draw for international collectors?

The exhibition, which opens in February, will focus on Blue and Rose Periods

The Lebanese-born artist and writer, who has a solo show at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, discusses her passion for the Swiss abstract artist.

Artist to continue project reconstructing thousands of lost and destroyed Iraqi artefacts

Founder Elisabeth Murdoch’s appointment to Arts Council England governing body cleared by commissioner

MCA’s former senior curator goes freelance, focusing on projects in Venice, Sharjah and Manchester

The US-based photorealist trailblazer turned to Expressionism, experiencing a career renaissance in later years

Partnership with Yorkshire Sculpture Park is shop's latest investment in contemporary art

Comments come after Unesco calls for “mutually acceptable” solution to 200-year-old issue

Patron Francesca von Habsburg shifts focus from her closed foundation space in Vienna to her new academy building in Venice

From the Hayward Gallery’s sparkly and surreal Lee Bul survey to the final paintings of Howard Hodgkin

The work will be located elsewhere in Paris, French culture minister says

The state-backed fifth edition is biggest ever with 44 galleries across five districts

From a church divided by concrete walls to a dose of Brexit washed down with cups of tea

She was sentenced to jail for "spreading terrorist propaganda" after posting a painting depicting a Kurdish town draped in Turkish flags

The Italian artist speaks to The Art Newspaper ahead of his major show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Western-style model could be a turning point for the country’s fast-proliferating private museums