Artists

Damien Hirst’s formaldehyde works are not harmful after all

Author retracts report claiming works shown at Tate Modern were a risk

Floating Piers: how Italy learnt to love Christo

The artist’s golden walkways on Lake Iseo drew more than 1.2 million visitors in 16 days

How to keep an artist’s name alive

Galleries at Art Basel bring historic works that are fresh to the market as artists’ estates get proactive

Jonas Mekas: the film-maker’s film-maker

Art Basel honours the Lithuanian-American artist who survived Hitler’s labour camps

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Andres Serrano’s scenes of cruel and unusual punishment

Volunteers in France and former political prisoners from Northern Ireland pose for US photographer's Torture images

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Need a biennial curator? Call an artist

Manifesta’s curator Christian Jankowski is among a growing number of artists organising biennials

Gilbert & George to convert East End house into non-profit gallery

Contemporary art foundation would host two exhibitions a year and is expected to bring 200 visitors a week

Vladimir Nemukhin, Russian abstract painter, died aged 90

The Nonconformist artist also accommodated the Soviet regime

Simon Starling takes to the stage for his latest project

A new play and exhibition has eclectic sources of inspiration, from Yeats to Japanese Noh theatre

Member of Ai Weiwei’s studio questioned by police during evacuation of Idomeni camp

Lu Hengzhong has been filming at the refugee camp in Greece for past 12 weeks

JR makes Louvre pyramid disappear

French artist’s work is a criticism of our selfie culture

New catalogue raisonné sheds light on Francis Bacon’s art and controversial life

Five-volume publication reveals artist’s unseen works—and his sadomasochistic side

China’s rising young stars shine in a man’s world

It takes more than talent for vastly outnumbered female artists to come to the fore

Don’t bank on it: New York artist’s memorial to financial failures comes to Wall Street

Michael Mandiberg has recorded the logos of more than 500 banks that closed during the recession for his installation FDIC Insured

The rent is too damn high: artists tackle New York’s gentrification problem

William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton team up again for a month-long programme of talks and performances that address the city’s housing issues

Portrait of the artist as a young woman: inside the mind of Eva Hesse

Diaries and film describe how the minimalist lauded by LeWitt was plagued by self-doubt and anxiety

Ai Weiwei's first feature-length film to focus on refugees

Chinese artist documents humanitarian crisis from Lesbos to Lebanon

Wim Delvoye unveils plans for museum in historic Iranian city

Belgian artist restores palatial buildings in Kashan and creates works with Isfahan metalworkers

Mark Bradford to represent the US at the 57th Venice Biennale

Pavilion’s curator calls Bradford ‘the leading American abstract painter of his generation’

Museums and galleries turn to the work of Gordon Parks

In the ten years since the artist’s death, interest in his work has steadily grown

USC Seven artists get their ‘graduate’ shows in Los Angeles

New alternative space PSSST will organise exhibitions of students who dropped out of the Roski School of Art and Design MFA programme in protest last year

Sol LeWitt’s art collection reveals friendships and artistic resonances

The Drawing Center displays a selection of the 4,000 works amassed by the ‘natural-born collector’

Betty Tompkins, famous for her Fuck Paintings, now represented by PPOW

The New York gallery is known for its shows of artists that explore the female body and sexuality

Cuban artist offers free wifi to Havana locals, with backing from Google

Kcho’s sculpture studio has been equipped with laptops, cell phones and virtual-reality goggles and is open to the public from 7am to midnight

Francis Alÿs films children’s games in refugee camps in northern Iraq

Belgian-born, Mexico City-based artist was on research trip to the region with the Ruya Foundation

Damien Hirst, suffragette, spins with a twist

Artist has made a work to support the Women’s Equality Party