‘Blinged-up but razor-sharp’: Chila Kumari Singh Burman on her Diwali-inspired Tate Britain commission
The key figure in the British Black Arts movement of the 1980s has adorned the London museum’s façade with a colourful work exploring her own background
Where art fairs still happen: the Shanghai buzz
Plus, Chila Kumari Singh Burman and the art work that inspired that Biden-Harris video
Activist art steps in when words are not enough
Fiona Banner drops a klanger outside Defra while Laure Prouvost takes language to new levels
Halloween with Ai Weiwei: artist's new film screens in Piccadilly Circus and online tonight
The Chinese dissident artist is stopping the regular advertisements in the famous square for an hour
Portrait of Tracey: how Emin's cancer diagnosis hasn't stopped her from being an artistic dynamo
With exhibitions at the Royal Academy and Xavier Hufkens, as well as her return to Margate, the artist is doing more in convalescence than most people manage in full health
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From a chilling show on Arctic culture to Polly Morgan's gorgeously repellent serpentine sculptures
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge launch public art exhibition showing portraits of a nation in lockdown
Cecily Brown: ‘I’m trying to understand what England means to me’
With her delayed show now open at Blenheim Palace, the British-born painter explains that she is as likely to be inspired by childhood comics as historic battle scenes
Season for Change launches four £10,000 artist commissions to support climate action
The project will support works centred around underrepresented communities in the climate movement
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From Liu Xiaodong's portraits of wealthy Chinese immigrants to the Royal Academy's delayed Summer show
What does the Philip Guston delay tell us about museums and race?
Plus, Maggi Hambling on making love with paint
Frieze: the show goes on. Plus, Theaster Gates
It’s Frieze Week in London, yet there’s no big art fair at its heart. Can galleries create the usual excitement—and is anyone still buying?
Fiona Banner and Greenpeace dump 1.5-tonne granite sculpture outside UK government to protest ocean bed destruction
The direct action is part of a Greenpeace campaign to stop illegal industrial fishing in some of Britain’s most sensitive marine areas
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From transgressive Tantra at the British Museum to a series of artistic interventions in Brent's libraries
New public art project in London will show works by Ai Weiwei and Eddie Peake on Europe's largest billboard
The digital art platform CIRCA will commission a new artist every month to create a work that reflects on the year 2020
Rosewater soda and a coronavirus memorial: what to see at the Brent Biennial
From Dawn Mellor's George Michael mural to Rasheed Araeen's anarchic library installation
This is America: Grayson Perry on race and class
Plus, Robert Storr on his huge new book about the painter Philip Guston. Sponsored by Christie's