Contemporary art
Iranian works will abound at the Venice Biennale despite US sanctions
Complications around shipping and insurance have not stopped artists and curators from the country to make their presence felt at this year's edition
NADA to launch Chicago fair in September
After cancelling its New York event, the organisation's new Chicago Invitational will feature around 40 galleries in the historic Chicago Athletic Association
Bob and Roberta Smith takes council sell-off protest to the Royal Academy
The artist’s work submitted to the Summer Show denounces Hertfordshire’s decision to auction more than 400 works
Uzbekistan opens new art centre to boost 'undeveloped' local scene
Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is offering curatorial expertise as part of growing network of partnerships with post-Soviet countries
Ai Weiwei denies his porcelain works borrow from Lebanese artist's prize-winning vases
Raed Yassin says there are "striking similarities" between his ceramic series on the Lebanese civil war and Ai's pieces on the Syrian war and refugee crisis
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is 'on track, on budget', director Richard Armstrong says
Construction on the long-delayed project is expected to take three to four years
Honey I shrunk the art: the ultimate alternative biennial opens in Los Angeles
Dollhouse-sized paintings and installations replace big artistic statements and egos
Tributes to Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, giant of contemporary Iranian art
Curators and artists, including Shirin Neshat, remember the artist who called her geometric mirror works “signs of light and life”
Indigenous and First Nation artists to take centre stage at next Biennale of Sydney
Artistic director Brook Andrew aims to counter the dominance of Northern American and European narratives
How to future-proof a work of art that will not be completed for 100 years
As Katie Paterson's sand castle project goes on tour, we look at how her Future Library is being made to outlive the artist
The best of Buenos Aires beyond arteBA
Five shows to see during the city's Semana del Arte
Cuban galleries rebound as Havana Biennial opens
Dealers mount work that responds to political tensions while noting art is a 'difficult business' in Havana
Okwui Enwezor was one of the most influential curators in history
The Art Newspaper's features editor Ben Luke pays tribute
Hans Ulrich Obrist remembers his friend Okwui Enwezor
Many of Enwezor's ideas "are more relevant today than ever before", Obrist says
Lismore Castle serves up a rich palimpsest of themes for new show
Irish home of the Dukes of Devonshire is grand backdrop to works by Martine Syms, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Nicole Eisenman, among others
Wallinger's upside-down globe outside LSE angers Chinese students for portraying Taiwan as an independent state
British artist says colouring Taiwan differently from China was his "error"
Bumper haul of 26 acquisitions head to UK's regional contemporary art galleries
Fig-futures project brings works worth £80,000 to four venues
Topping a million visitors: how MCA Australia broadened the appeal of contemporary art
With more than a million people through the doors annually since 2015, the museum is a case study in how to expand audiences
German art collective under investigation by state prosecutor
Zentrum für politische Schönheit sees artistic freedom under attack
Do Ho Suh has 2018's most popular contemporary art show, with 1.1 million visitors
Free exhibition of his installations at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC tops our Art's Most Popular survey
In pictures: hanging ghost ships and upside-down architecture at Art Basel in Hong Kong
Curator Alexie Glass-Kantor talks us through her selection of large-scale works at the fair this year
David Chipperfield on his design for West Bund Art Museum in Shanghai
The UK architect talks about working in China and the decline of its "funny-shaped" buildings
KAWS célèbre: street artist's first survey—and huge inflatable—make waves in Hong Kong
KAWS, aka Brian Donnelly, is now firmly in the mainstream art world
Artist installs mirror into panel of famous Ghent Altarpiece for new project
Kris Martin says his addition to the Flemish masterpiece turns observers into “just judges”
Postcards as art and the art of the postcard
Book looks at British Museum’s contemporary artists' postcards from 1960 to the present
Van Ham to auction 4,000 contemporary works from SØR Rusche collection
Dutch Old Masters in the retailer’s corporate collection are to be sold at Sotheby’s
Collector's Eye: an interview with Candace Carmel Barasch
The New York real estate heiress tells us what she's bought and why she loves it
Hope punctures darkness in The Armory Show's Platform section
Nine large works pose big questions in tandem with a World’s Fair theme
Hockney double portrait sells for £37.7m, accounting for half of Christie’s contemporary sale in London
Overall results are down 42.7% on last year, but European buying remains strong despite Brexit
Sotheby's puts female artists first in contemporary sale, but men still end up on top
Jenny Saville's Juncture sells for £5.4m and records set for Rebecca Warren and Nigerian artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, but Jean-Michel Basquiat still leads prices