Artists
Watts couple’s revamped ‘his and hers’ studios to open in Compton
Visitors can watch conservators at work in the renovated space
Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital
Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic
Gerhard Richter painting being auctioned by Malekis could topple record
Abstract work is top lot in Sotheby’s London evening sale next month
Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash
Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”
British construction boss to open new gallery in Ghana
Marwan Zakhem hopes to create a buzz around the burgeoning scene in the West African country with Gallery 1957
Los Angeles artist sells shadows of sculptures by Koons and Brancusi at a sliver of the price
Ana Prvacki finds a more “sustainable and minimal” form of appropriation art
Art world hero: artists and curators pay tribute to David Bowie
British musician, artist and actor inspired a generation of artists including Tracey Emin and Dexter Dalwood
Swap shop: the stories behind six objects in Pia Camil’s New Museum installation
Find out why visitors brought a glass chicken, a Mardi Gras wig, a vintage hat, a diary page, a quilt and a package of seaweed for the artist’s first solo show
Three Tunisian artists freed on appeal, but two others remain in prison
Human Rights Watch organisation is concerned about the plight of Adnen Meddeb and Amine Mabrouk, who were charged under anti-drugs legislation
Vik Muniz to reveal flip side of Mauritshuis’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer
Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa
Jenny Holzer draws on Walt Whitman for Aids memorial
App will allow people to keep memories alive far beyond New York
The artists who flopped (and triumphed) in 2015
Who was hot and who was not this year, featuring Anish Kapoor, Rachel Rose and Chris Ofili
Art world mourns murder of Indian artist Hema Upadhyay
Internationally acclaimed artist has had shows at the Pompidou, the Ullens Center and the Mori Art Museum
Kenny Schachter on Peggy Guggenheim’s one-woman fight to champion artists
In her lifetime, the art collector’s personal reputation was shredded, but, as Lisa Vreeland’s film shows, her influence on the art world was astonishing
United Talent Agency expands fine arts division
With the appointment of a new creative director, the firm looks to work with more artists and fund ambitious projects
Abbas Kiarostami on his fixation with doors, the still image and carpentry
The Iranian film-maker is showing a photographic series he’s worked on for 20 years at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum
Design is about the human intent
Yves Béhar, the Swiss-born, San Francisco-based designer behind Jawbone’s Up fitness tracker and One Laptop Per Child, is the winner of Design Miami’s 2015 Visionary Award
US photographer with historic Cuban show comes to Miami
Peter Turnley is due to speak at the Miami Street Photography Festival
Who is making Land Art now?
As a new film hails the pioneers of the movement, a new generation of artists are staking out their own territory
Picasso, the master of experimentation
The prolific artist turned his hand to ceramics, photography, textiles and even poetry
Warning: you are under surveillance
The artist Trevor Paglen interrogates the world of mass surveillance and its increasing impact on society
Danh Vo and Dutch collector settle legal battle
The Danish-Vietnamese artist will no longer have to create a “large and impressive” work for Bert Kreuk