Artists

Teresita Fernandez wants to change the way you think about American landscapes

The artist’s installation at the home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church reminds visitors that stunning painted vistas were also homes to real people

Mexican-Canadian artist caught up in political maelstrom over Trump Tower commission

Miriam Aroeste says she was surprised to have her art mixed up with the US President’s politics

Confronting the landscape: Doug Aitken’s Mirage in the California desert

The artist has created a mirrored ranch-style ‘house’ for the exhibition Desert X

‘To be a Scotsman receiving a French award in Germany—it keeps people guessing’

Douglas Gordon explains why he asked to receive France’s highest honour in Berlin

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation names head of catalogue raisonné project

Douglas Dreishpoon joins the foundation from the Albright-Knox Gallery

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Scottish artist Douglas Gordon to receive France’s highest honour

The artist will accept the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in Berlin later this month

Christo cancels Over the River project in protest against Trump

After 20 years of planning and spending $15m of his own money, the artist says he has no interest in finishing the project under the current government

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Three lucky artists selected to live and work in Alexander Calder’s Loire Valley studio

Abbas Akhavan, Rochelle Goldberg and Eva Kot’átková to “continue in Calder’s legacy” through three-month residencies

Giant Portuguese cock takes flight for Beijing and Shanghai

Ten-metre-high illuminated sculpture was originally created for Rio de Janeiro

Tapestry of Sabra and Shatila massacres could hang next to Picasso’s Guernica

Palestinian art collector has commissioned a wall hanging based on Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi’s drawing, which is now in the Tate

John Baldessari reunites Jackson Pollock with his teacher Thomas Hart Benton

“Art comes out of art; I’m interested in artists who influenced me, and how one artist interests another artist,” he says

Lawnews

Lawsuit over Cady Noland’s Log Cabin dismissed

But the question remains if the work can still be considered authentic, after the artist allegedly disavowed it

Wim Delvoye to create public sculpture of French astronomer François Arago in Paris

Belgian artist was chosen over 12 others whose maquettes will be auctioned at Artcurial

Artist turns Whitney work upside down after election

Annette Lemieux asked the museum’s curators to reverse her work Left Right Left Right

The end of the world is coming to Manhattan

Robert Cenedella, the “Art Bastard”, brings his vision of the apocalypse to a gallery window just a week before the US election

Ed Ruscha: ‘All artists want to open the gates to heaven’

US artist recalls Dutch road trip, the basis of his latest works on show in London—and says retirement is not an option

Calling all women artists: the Brooklyn Museum wants to take your picture

Kim Schoenstadt takes her idea for a group portrait on the road from Los Angeles to New York

Booksnews

‘We’re a part of American art too’: Black artists speak on their roles in art history

A new book surveys four generations of abstract art in the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection

Warsaw Gallery Weekend: who are the new kids on the bloc?

Annual event presents the best local talent while a new parallel fair looks beyond Poland’s borders

New York museum and galleries celebrate Richard Pousette-Dart centenary

On the 100th anniversary of his birth, the late artist’s foundation has also undertaken the conservation of his hospital triptych Presence, Healing Circles

Taryn Simon looks at how we all mourn at the Park Avenue Armory

US Immigration is an unwitting curator in the multidisciplinary artist’s project on the global practice of grieving

Interview: David Adjaye and Theaster Gates on working in Washington, DC

The London-based architect and the Chicago-based artist spoke with us ahead of their joint talk at the Hirshhorn Museum

Günther Uecker gets first solo show in London in more than 50 years

Zero Group artist has created six new nail paintings about human violence for exhibition at Dominique Lévy gallery

US artist builds wall near Mexican border to confront ‘everything that Donald Trump represents’

Louis Hock tackles fear, racism and hatred of immigrants with temporary barrier at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Shirin Neshat dreams big for first solo show in Africa

The Iranian-born artist is premiering two new videos at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg this week

Artist Betsy Davis ends her life under California’s doctor-assisted dying law

Before she died, the 41-year-old multimedia and performance artist diagnosed with ALS invited friends and family to a weekend goodbye party

America™: Alfredo Jaar’s controversial 1987 billboard work lights up London’s Piccadilly Circus

Donald Trump’s immigration policies make Logo for America more urgent than ever, the Chilean-born artist says

Bortolami creates US-wide mini-Marfas

Artists given non-traditional spaces and free rein to put on shows