As his touring US solo exhibition opens in Chicago, where he lives, the painter reflects on the oddness of survey shows, the power of the market and achieving all his dreams

The Chicago artist would like to turn his comic into an animated film on the scale of Star Wars

Mark Bradford and Robert Glasper are the first to create a collaborative work

Early reports indicate that ancient sites that survived the terrorist group’s destruction are in “good condition”

The Onassis Cultural Center is hosting a major loan exhibition of objects from the archaeological site of Dion

The city will be taken over this summer by exhibitions and artist projects, including new work by Damián Ortega and Christian Boltanski

Sculptures from India, Afghanistan and Pakistan have been confiscated in a string of raids on auction houses and a gallery

Muhammad ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami was given a 15-year sentence for reciting a poem in support of the Arab Spring on YouTube

As a major exhibition on the New York photographer opens at Lacma and the Getty Museum, the question of what kind of work museums can show rumbles on

Forbes’ annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest people reveals that personal fortunes may have taken a hit, but the same names stay at the top

The museum puts three-year-old lawsuit over entrance fees to rest and will change its signage to ask for 'suggested admission'

Meanwhile, Philadelphia Museum fights back after "suggestive" ice cream painting is removed from the site

What you see is only half of what you get: five of the ten storeys will be underground

Los Angeles shows will include provocative portraits but not images of children

A few lucky visitors can grab a spot on the Lebanese-American artist’s walkthrough tour of his work

New York law filings peek into the secretive dealings of private, multi-million-dollar international art sales

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation’s €3m grant withdrawn, but institution plans to reapply for funding in new year

Collection valued at more than $15m was used to launder money, Attorney’s Office says

The culture wars may be over, but the debate over what public institutions can show lives on

Our pick of the inaugural biennial, which opened to towering expectations

The massive Land Art project is a memorial to the Sicilian town of Gibellina, ruined by a 1968 earthquake

The case is just the latest in a long-running dispute between the collector’s descendants and the foundation that manages her art in Venice

An exhibition of battlefield photographs by the German artist and activist Bettina WitteVeen opens to the public this weekend