Artists

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

Wild at art: private art foundation dedicated to adventurer and watercolourist Tony Foster opens in Silicon Valley

The artist’s patron, the renewable energy investor Jane Woodward, has wholly backed the project

Artist faces battle to spend final days in forest Edvard Munch loved to paint

Bang goes the neighbourhood? Criticism grows to Bjarne Melgaard’s A House to Die In

Iranian art proves a hit with collectors at new London gallery

Sophia Contemporary Gallery, which specialises in contemporary art from the Middle Eastern region, launched this week

Lucian Freud’s life and work to be the focus of new Dublin research centre

Fifty works from private collections go on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Which star architect will be first to use blackest of black material?

Maker of spray-on version of Vantablack working with “global architects” as well as Anish Kapoor <br>

How to handle fakes, copyright and catalogues raisonnés: Berlin institute offers tips for artists’ estates

The first organisation of its kind in Europe to provide training and support for artists and their heirs

Is now the time for Sherrie Levine’s market to take off?

The conceptual artist has jumped ship to David Zwirner gallery, which is now showing her works in New York

The importance of being an artist’s assistant

Memories of Warhol, Rauschenberg and Jack Goldstein, among others, inspire exhibition

Gerhard Richter slams proposed closure of Germany's Museum Morsbroich

Plans to shut institution and sell its seminal Modern and contemporary works are "alarming" artist says

Opera-loving artist Raqib Shaw to show new paintings at Glyndebourne

Artist is the second to be selected for White Cube pop-up gallery at the music festival

Artist residency programme takes to the high seas

Seven artists will live and work on board commercial cargo ships, criss-crossing the globe along maritime routes

Art360 initiative lets artists take the long view

Three-year archive programme will focus on Modern British and contemporary artists, starting with three women

Bruce Munro’s light installation to illuminate Ayers Rock

British artist wants to recapture joyful moment of camping near the Australian landmark with his fiancée

Gillian Wearing asks for a peek through people’s windows

The UK artist will unveil her new film project, including submissions from the public, at the House festival in Brighton

Aloha Kusama, artist’s polka dot sculpture heads to Hawaii

The bright pink installation heralds the first Honolulu Biennial, which launches next year

Lawnews

American Airlines and seven others sued over damage to Lucio Fontana sculpture

Concetto Spaziale was being shipped from France to the Armory Show in New York last year

Ai Weiwei wraps Berlin landmark in lifejackets in memory of drowned refugees

Mayor of Lesbos donated 14,000 vests to the Chinese artist and activist who created installation outside city’s Konzerthaus

Marc Quinn and White Cube part company after more than 20 years

The British artist is the first that London dealer Jay Jopling ever worked with in 1991

Turner’s house to be restored—but only if crowdfunding cash comes in

Artist designed and built the 203-year-old villa in Twickenham as a retreat from London art world

Art—coming soon to a cinema near you

Short films by major artists will be screened unannounced before regular features in the UK

The bee’s knees: UK’s Expo pavilion to come to Kew Gardens

Wolfgang Buttress’s installation on the honey-makers was on show in Milan

Russian protest artist held in Moscow psychiatric hospital

The Serbsky Center may also host hearings next week in criminal trial against Pyotr Pavlensky

Betty Tompkins paints 1,000 words that describe women—and most of them are horrible

The feminist artist takes on deep-rooted misogyny in a new show at the Flag Art Foundation

Self-taught artist Thornton Dial dies, aged 87

The son of Alabama sharecroppers, he created sculptures, drawings and paintings from salvaged materials