The Art Newspaper

Pope.L gets back to basics

The Chicago-based artist is selling bottles of water for a good cause

Street artist Banksy up in arms about arms

The event Art the Arms featured other artist-activists such as the Guerrilla Girls and Peter Kennard

A Syrian in space

The astronaut Muhammed Faris was hailed a national hero in 1987 after accompanying a Soviet crew on a trip to the Mir space station

Ofili adds restaurant design to his CV

To celebrate its 50th birthday this year, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has given itself a gift as part of a building redesign: a new restaurant

No Woman, No Drive

Satirical video by Saudi Arabian comedian Hisham Fageeh

Shop (and view art) till you drop: John Bellany’s paintings pop up in Fortnum & Mason

Collector Frank Cohen has loaned several canvases by the late Scottish artist

Multi-religious monument at the V&A is Dubai (and Palestine) bound

Elias and Yousef Anastas’s latticed structure is made of more than 500 stone pieces

Sheffield doesn't do landmarks by half

Artist Alex Chinneck's chimney sculptures ups the ante in the North of England

Maggi Hambling appearance crowns new Art Week in London

The renowned artist pops up as part of new event organised by Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation

Emirati Voices: Noura Al Kaabi on Louvre Abu Dhabi's impact

UAE minister talks about how the museum will change visitors and residents alike

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Emirati Voices: Dr Lamees Hamdan on Louvre Abu Dhabi's Bactrian Princess

Commissioner of first UAE pavilion at the Venice Biennale talks about her favourite object from the museum's collection

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Emirati voices: works from the Louvre Abu Dhabi

UAE citizens talk about the work of art that speaks to them most

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Martin Puryear came, he sawed, he conquered

US artist's solo show in London is a long time coming

Grayson Perry's very British brain map

Group show marks 20th anniversary of Bethlem Gallery

Kevin Spacey’s star turn as towering billionaire patron John Paul Getty

The actor dons prosthetics for the role in Ridley Scott’s kidnap drama

Solange has something to say to the art world

The performer let loose at a sold-out talk at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago this week

Hans Ulrich Obrist to host an interview mini-marathon at Expo Chicago 2018

The artist Theaster Gates and architect Jeanne Gang are two of the confirmed participants so far

Firefighters save the Hermitage’s beloved feline guards

A small fire on Friday at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg raised alarms about the fate of one of its greatest treasures: the beloved Hermitage cats

Berghain to host 46-hour art marathon

Good to Talk event in the Canteen at Berlin nightclub will involve 200 artists, gallerists and other speakers

Scoop: image surfaces of hacks at Royal Academy press view—in 1892

Chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith was surprised by rediscovered illustration

JR's border baby

The French street artist teams up with a very very young collaborator—one-year-old David

Salvador Dalí is not the daddy

Spanish Surrealist’s body was exhumed for paternity DNA test in July

True history of the South comes to upstate New York

Group show in Beacon addresses hot-button issues dividing America