News from London: Kruger’s talking chess set, Hirst goes to Hollywood, and Duran Duran show their sweet tooth
Also featuring parenting tips from Emin and Tate's spiritually uplifting cabaret
Interview with Tomma Abts, champion of abstraction
Abts’ small, deeply layered canvases exert a quiet power
Outside curators buy for Tate at Frieze
This year's haul included video, installations, and photos but no paintings
Top collectors descend on Zoo as the satellite fair opens its doors a day ahead of Frieze
Saatchi and Branson among first to race round fair
Jeff Wall: Year-long exposures at Tate Modern
An overview of his career and a major new work
Interview with Jake Chapman: “Our hunger for Goya has not waned but our horizon has widened”
On the eve of the Chapmans’ first commercial show in three years, Jake Chapman talks to The Art Newspaper
“Our hunger for Goya has not waned but our horizon has widened”: Interview with Jake Chapman
On the eve of the Chapmans’ first commercial show in three years, Jake Chapman talks to The Art Newspaper
Commercial publishing: Would you pay $250 for this Hirst catalogue?
Published to accompany his show of paintings at Gagosian in New York, it promises much but delivers little
Interview with Cecily Brown on her UK success: “The act of looking is underrated”
After her achievements in New York, British painter Cecily Brown is having her first solo show in the UK
Paul McCarthy collaborates with filmmaker son in swashbuckling Munich show
At the climax of McCarthy's career, the cowboy and the pirate are brought together with pleasing dissonance
The London latest: It’s art, but not as Beck’s intended it
A typo on their beer bottle turns it into an instant collectors’ classic
Making space speak: An interview with Richard Wentworth
Richard Wentworth’s mid-career survey at Tate Liverpool is more of a remix than a retrospective
Rubell family transform their private collection into major museum complex
In the space of just a year, a former US Drug Enforcement Warehouse has been expanded to 40,000 square feet and now includes 18 new galleries, a conservation laboratory, a library and a sculpture garden
Frieze already an established British tradition
Although only the second edition of this contemporary fair in a tent, global collectors flocked to it and sales were frantic
News from London: Battersea gets its shots and Michael Jackson is barred from RA
Maggi Hambling’s portrait of the singer is rejected from the Summer Show, while Tracey Emin goes on the wagon
A blow to Britart as Saatchi's collection is caught in Momart warehouse blaze
Shame on the Schadenfreudians
Interview with Tracey Emin: Art, life and autobiography
Tracey Emin’s new exhibition concentrates on her work as a filmmaker in which she usually takes the starring role
Interview with Mike Kelley on accumulating the uncanny in his new Tate Liverpool show
The Californian post-conceptualist plays the role of artist, curator and collector in his latest piece
News from London: Gagosian grows and grows, as does Tate Magazine, while Lisson and White Cube get into the festive spirit
Meanwhile, a dead animal stirs things up in Camden
Three degrees of separation: Interview with artist Mark Wallinger
Absence is as important as presence in Mark Wallinger’s new works on show
News from London: Jake Chapman on dogs and flower arranging, Wolfgang Tillmans on Bush's backside, C. I. Kim on his front side
Meanwhile Britain's rugby hero, Jonny Wilkinson, brings sporting glamour to the BALTIC
London aims to step into the big league
Dealers are planning new, original display techniques
Paula Rego: prints of darkness
After 40 years, the Portuguese-born artist is still surprised by the images she creates
News from London: A time of transitions for Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, and Tate magazine, while Royal Academy prize-winner gets more than he bargained for
Meanwhile, Tracy Emin is compared to Chinese takeaway
Interview with artist Richard Long: Still walking, after all these years
Long’s latest show is a collaboration with Indian tribal artist Jivya Soma Mashe
Interview with John Wood and Paul Harrison: “I like the little one”
John Wood and Paul Harrison’s minimal, deadpan performances make complicated references to the art world of the past—with a dash of slapstick
Saatchi’s challenge to Tate with new Thameside gallery
The collector credited with transforming London’s contemporary art scene opens prestigious premises on the Thames this 17 April
Andy Warhol at Sadie Coles: private drawings from the 1950s
These never-before-seen works show a more personal side of the artist
Best of London commercial galleries chosen by Louisa Buck
Chantal Joffe, Victoria Miro
Interview with Robert Ryman: Painting is for pleasure
Ryman has been painting white on white for more than 50 years. He talks about how his paintings work and which shade of white he uses