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Leading architect Zaha Hadid dies aged 65

Iraqi-born designer was the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize

Marina Abramovic to get first China show

Shanghai's Power Station of Art to provide stage for performance artist

From pill-popping birds to awkward mannequins: Encounters at Art Basel Hong Kong

Curator Alexie Glass-Kantor picks six works from her section dedicated to large-scale projects

Project to preserve Venice’s Jewish heritage, 500 years after the first ghetto was created

The €8.5m campaign is backed by the fashion designer Diane von Fürstenburg among others

Countdown to Art Basel in Hong Kong

Heading to the fair? You'll find more historical work by Asian artists, more Western galleries, plus a "waterfall" of numbers as high as a skyscraper

Private museum pops up to fill a gap in Brussels

A former brewery on a canal is being refurbished to house a new non-profit contemporary art space

Theftsnews

Italian police arrest 13 over €15m Verona museum theft

Suspects include museum’s security guard whose car was used as getaway vehicle

How to be a performance artist like Marina Abramovic

Athens project trains Greek artists and the public in the “Abramovic Method”

Fairsnews

Experts reveal the must-haves in their fields

Authorities in eight specialist areas explain what guides the market—and all the latest trends.

People of Geneva say ‘non’ to museum extension designed by Jean Nouvel

The proposal for the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire is sent back to the drawing board after 54% vote against it<br>

Asian art market comes of age in Hong Kong

The fourth edition of Art Basel’s Hong Kong fair will have more historical material by Asian artists—and more Western galleries

Daniel Buren fills Brussels show with all of his favourite things

The conceptual artist pays tribute to his friends and masters–just don’t call him a curator

Milan’s Palazzo Reale eyes up the Symbolists

Major exhibition opens of the artists who put poetry, myth, love and death first and foremost

David Attenborough opens £1.5m gallery for socially-engaged art

BBC naturalist inaugurated Lucy and Jorge Orta's show on environmental change at Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester

Altamira caves raffle plan is ‘nonsense’, says Spain’s culture secretary

Local tourist minister has proposed auctioning tickets to the heritage site to help raise funds

Youth is king at Arte Fiera Bologna

Modern and contemporary art fair celebrates 40th edition with focus on young artists and post-war Italian masters