Contemporary art
Artists’ battle for refugees is beginning to pay off
Amid the din of cynical populists the voices of these fragile communities are needed more than ever
Frieze special: the fair and the top shows, with Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson
We talk to the art market specialist Melanie Gerlis about the fair, to Doris Salcedo and Ragnar Kjartansson about their shows, Massimiliano Gioni about the New Museum’s video-art pop-up in London—and Louisa Buck discusses Frieze's special Social Work section. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Lost art: the joys of the ephemeral
Noah Charney on amazing works that were always meant to be temporary
Damien Hirst scales back business activities to focus on making art
The former YBA has laid off 50 staff and bought a £40m studio in Soho, opening next year
Gwangju Biennale's 11 curators delve into South Korea's hidden traumas
The theme of Imagined Borders addresses the fraught relationship with the North as well as global tensions surrounding migration and identity
Expo Chicago grows but local dealers drop out
While international exhibitor numbers are up again, the Midwest collectors base proves elusive
Garage Museum helps new Kazakh venue to get started
Collaboration in Almaty is expected to be long-term, but no money is changing hands
Vienna Contemporary here to stay with decade-long venue booking
The contemporary art fair makes it mark with a ten year lease on Marx Halle
Authorities destroy sculptures in the Maldives
Destruction of Jason deCaires Taylor's Coralarium installation came after condemnation by local Muslim leaders and politicians
Glenstone’s giant $200m expansion is ready, but will visitors come?
Collectors’ private museum, scrutinised by US Senate for limited access, could draw 100,000 people a year
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
The power of Black artists resonates at the Brooklyn Museum, while Medieval monsters lurk at the Morgan Library
MoCA Toronto set to open in new industrial home that hosts both art and artists
New works by Barbara Kruger, Tania Bruguera and Awol Erizku will be presented in Canadian museum's first year
Frick collection invites contemporary artist into its permanent galleries for the first time
Edmund de Waal's porcelain creations will open a dialogue with the historic art and furnishings and 'will not shock', curator says
Pussy Riot protester Pyotr Verzilov ‘was probably poisoned’, doctors say
Medics in Berlin have not identified substance but are confident Russian will recover
Quintessentially Chinese art gives way to a global identity
Contrasting Zhang Xiaogang with a young 'post-passport' generation
Is contemporary art the kale of the art world?
The rise in popularity of the green vegetable mirrors that of contemporary art
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
Mika Rottenberg’s surreal world lands in London’s newest space, Goldsmiths CCA, while the “king of cling” Azzedine Alaïa captivates at the Design Museum
In the aftermath of far-right riots in the German town of Chemnitz, an artist’s wolves act as a warning
Rainer Opolka’s bronze sculptures, some making Nazi salutes, on show in Chemnitz for one day only
Hollywood stars and art world A-listers come out in support of Frieze Los Angeles
Salma Hayek, Tobey Maguire and Serena Williams are among those on the fair’s host committee, while Gagosian, Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth and Ropac will exhibit
London's National Portrait Gallery’s contemporary art programme resonates more with the art world than the public
Though not as dire as first thought, visitor figures for the museum's contemporary shows have still been poor
Mining the lessons of African American history
With a grant from the Art for Justice Fund, Xaviera Simmons draws inspiration from Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations series
Berlin artists face poverty, meagre pensions and a yawning gender pay gap, survey reveals
“Women are particularly affected by this precarious situation,” study’s author says
Münster on track to raise funds for Eisenman fountain as artist and gallery reduce price
Fund-raisers have so far raised €300,000 of €800,000 needed
US whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning to make first UK appearance at ICA London
The polarising ex-army leaker will discuss artificial intelligence, LGBTQ rights and the links between digital technology and democracy
Russian authorities stop Pussy Riot member from travelling to Edinburgh's Fringe festival
Maria Alyokhina had spent two years in prison for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”
Art installation in Canada helps rebuild burnt-out library in Iraq
A project at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto challenges the public to help restore a Baghdad art college’s collection
Nicholas Galanin remixes Native American identity at Phoenix’s Heard Museum
The artist, who is of Tlingit and Unangax descent, confronts the traumatic past in deeply affecting ways but does not wallow in it
Surrealism in the digital age: Beirut exhibition looks at new wave of 20th-century art movement
Show at Lebanon's Aishti Foundation is last in a trilogy exploring its vast private collection before its first solo presentation of Albert Oehlen
Chinese authorities demolish Ai Weiwei's studio in Beijing
The space is latest artistic casualty in the city's gentrification campaign
Poland’s answer to the Guerrilla Girls—the 'bison ladies'—stage protest against Araki exhibition in Warsaw
Japanese artist became embroiled in #Metoo movement over treatment of long-time model





























