Artists

Watts couple’s revamped ‘his and hers’ studios to open in Compton

Visitors can watch conservators at work in the renovated space

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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

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Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash

Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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