Contemporary art
Podcast episode 39: All about the biennials
We talk to Sally Tallant, the artistic director of the Liverpool Biennial, about the 10th edition opening next week. And Jane Morris, an editor-at-large of The Art Newspaper, joins Ben Luke to discuss “peak biennial”
From project space to mega dealer: Jay Jopling celebrates 25 years of White Cube
Hong Kong show features rarely seen archival material, while 23 artists have made new works for an exhibition dedicated to memory in London
London’s contemporary art summer season in flux as middle market comes out on top
Christie’s introduces day sale format and established names give way to new talent
Podcast episode 38: Marina Abramovic and Michael Jackson
We speak to the queen of performance art about casting herself in stone and to the National Portrait Gallery’s director Nicholas Cullinan about the king of pop’s influence on artists.
Uranium glass chandeliers banned from Shanghai exhibition
Chinese authorities did not explain why Ken and Julia Yonetani’s four works will not be part of Powerlong Art Museum group show
Copenhagen's new kunsthalle for 'huge site-specific art installations' opens in refurbished shipyard
Gallery's inaugural exhibitions go to Danish collective Superflex and US artist Doug Aitken
Can’t beat it? Michael Jackson’s impact on contemporary art explored in London show
Artists participating in National Portrait Gallery exhibition explain why the King of Pop matters to them
Frieze focus on women who challenged the male-dominated 1980s art market
New section at London fair will explore artists who railed against "the idea that genius resided solely in masculinity"
Serbia recovers from ‘cultural genocide’
National Museum reopens after 15 years, following Museum of Contemporary Art’s decade-long revamp
Collector's Eye: Grazyna Kulczyk
The Polish art lover on her fascination with female artists and how she wishes she could have been seated at Judy Chicago's Dinner Party
Down under: Australian artist Mike Parr buries himself under a road for 72 hours
Veteran performer's tribute to victims of totalitarian violence is part of Dark Mofo festival in Hobart
Chinese collector scoops up McArthur Binion painting at Unlimited
Nine other works by the US artist sold on Lehmann Maupin’s stand at the fair
Deutsche Bank to open Berlin art centre Palais Populaire in September
First exhibition will show around 300 works on paper from the bank’s vast corporate collection
Gerhard Richter creates Foucault pendulum for Münster church
Artist's donated installation pays tribute to "a small victory for science"
Basilea: Turn on, tune in and chill at the Messeplatz
Creative Time’s Art Basel project abounds with everything from gravel deposits to DJ-led meditations
Olafur Eliasson’s Little Sun teams up with Ikea
Project aims to produce affordable, off-grid tools
In pictures: From treading on taxidermy to sounds from Basel's sewers
Parcours, the Art Basel section for public art projects, is "radically different" from previous editions, says its curator Samuel Leuenberger
Juergen Teller tackles football’s highs and lows in Moscow show
Exhibition at Garage Museum includes stalker-like snaps of Pep Guardiola and live work charting Germany’s World Cup success—or failure
Jeff Koons on transcendence
The artist reflected on his early career and gradual success in David Rockefeller lecture
From Riga to Los Angeles, biennials are searching for answers in troubled times
Manifesta 12, Made in LA, Riboca and the tenth Berlin Biennale explore whether art can make a difference in a rapidly changing world
Baltimore museum sells blue-chip art to buy works by minority artists
Five works made around $18m (with fees) at auctions at Sotheby’s New York on 19 May, and two were bought for undisclosed sums in private sales
Richard Prince denounces exhibition of early Joke paintings at Skarstedt gallery. Or does he?
US artist says he has “nothing to do with the show”, the first to focus on this body of work in the UK
Hong Kong museums scene finally on the rise, as Central Police Station opens
Long-awaited Tai Kwun complex will give local artists a world-class exhibition space
Lee Bul lights up Hayward Gallery inside and out for its 50th anniversary
Korean artist has covered exterior of Brutalist gallery with 180,000 crystals as part of mid-career survey
Controversial plans to install Jeff Koons's tulips sculpture in front of Palais de Tokyo in Paris abandoned
The work will be located elsewhere in Paris, French culture minister says
Christie’s reintroduces contemporary art to its London summer calendar
Still no evening auction, but blue-chip artists make way for fresh talent in new day sale format
Turkish artist Zehra Dogan continues to paint on scrap paper from prison
She was sentenced to jail for "spreading terrorist propaganda" after posting a painting depicting a Kurdish town draped in Turkish flags
Dispute erupts over location of Kassel’s Documenta obelisk
Artist Olu Oguibe believes the city caved in to demands from the anti-immigration AfD, which opposes the monument
Gerhard Richter donates 18 works to provide permanent accommodation for the homeless
Sale aims to raise €1m to help buy 100 dwellings
The futuristic architecture that emerged from Mobutu’s Kinshasa comes to MoMA
First US survey of Bodys Isek Kingelez shows how his sculptures addressed urban, social and economic concerns in Congo