Gareth Harris

Gareth Harris is the Chief Contributing Editor of The Art Newspaper

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

New affordable-art website Collectionair backed by curatorial big-hitters

Former director of Pompidou among names behind online platform, which sells works for under $10,000<br> <br>

Frank Gehry’s Luma project takes shape in Arles

Patron Maja Hoffmann is building a €100m cultural campus on vast site previously used to manufacture trains in southern France

Russian artist Erik Bulatov unveils explosive works in former munitions factory

Artist's first series of sculptures is on show in south-west France<br> <br>

Louvre opens up to performance art

Fiac art fair has organised new festival taking place in famous Parisian locations<br>

Sixth Duke of Westminster leaves one of the most important Old Master collections in the UK

Many of the works owned by Gerald Grosvenor, who has died aged 64, have been loaned over the years to a small museum near the family seat in Chester <br>

UK Brexit vote gives the Ruhrtriennale arts festival extra edge

Director Johan Simons says that the programme reflects how “Europe is questioning itself”<br>

London’s V&A buys rare Hans Coper bird bowl

1950s ceramic, which was at risk of being exported from the UK, purchased in memory of the late writer Annabel Freyberg<br> <br>

Rupertinum revamp puts Salzburg on the contemporary art map

Franz West lounge and Generali Foundation collection among highlights of refurbished 17th-century site <br>

Contemporary African art to take centre stage at Fondation Louis Vuitton

Three major shows are planned for Paris museum next year, including one featuring collection of Jean Pigozzi

Bill Viola to unveil second work in St Paul’s Cathedral

New multi-screen video installation depicting the Virgin Mary, along with the companion Martyrs work, cost £2.5m to make and install

Late French film director Claude Berri’s vast, eclectic collection to hit the block in Paris

Several sales scheduled at Christie’s, including an auction of key contemporary works during the Fiac fair

Reading Prison and its most famous inmate inspire major new project

Patti Smith, Steve McQueen and Marlene Dumas, among others, respond to Oscar Wilde and the jail's architecture and history

Exhibition on Greek island of Samos offers new perspectives on the refugee crisis

Works transcend media representations of the humanitarian disaster, says curator Katerina Gregos

Three to see: London

From Eggleston's portraits of America to a hot Latin summer south of the river

French luxury goods billionaire François Pinault makes German debut

His collection will be shown at Museum Folkwang, with an entire gallery dedicated to Cindy Sherman

Suhanya Raffel appointed executive director of Hong Kong's M+ museum

Sydney-based curator will be instrumental in building the collection and acquiring key art, design and architecture works