Contemporary art
Jackson Pollock and Thornton Dial given equal billing in Met exhibition
Highlights from Souls Grown Deep Foundation acquisition go on show among New York museum's collection
Out with the old in with the new, with a side of Bacon, at Phillips and Christie's $528.8m auction night
New record for Joan Mitchell as fresh artists join the $10m-and-up club—but Bacon and Basquiat still dominate top prices in New York
Kerry James Marshall sets $21m record for a living African American artist at Sotheby's sale
Rapper P. Diddy identified as buyer of the Chicago-based painter's Past Times
Women beaten at Beijing’s 798 Art District for wearing rainbow badges
The attack on the two young women by 798 security staff has been condemned by LGBT groups, online activists and China’s art world
Hospital tests art's healing powers
New York Presbyterian shows contemporary works from its permanent collection
On the road, from Iraq to Germany
The Iraqi-Kurdish artist examines migration and contemporary politics in his solo show at the New Museum
UK artist Yinka Shonibare brings African and diaspora artists to London
Show honours Africa’s contribution to abstraction, beauty and politics at "a time of affirmative difference"
Berlin bans collector from exhibiting art in industrial district
Axel Haubrok is fighting zoning restrictions after buying the former premises of the chauffeur service for top East German officials
Elmgreen & Dragset get first major UK survey at Whitechapel Gallery
Exhibition during Frieze week spans 20 years of the artists' career and will include a major new commission
From Brussels to Bogotá: where will the Pompidou pop up next?
As museum's teaser show opens in the Belgian capital, its president, Serge Lasvignes, tells us about branching out from Paris
Los Angeles County Museum of Art hopes to ‘change American perceptions of Iran’ with new show
Artists based in Iran were absent at the opening of exhibition of historical and contemporary Iranian art this week due to Trump's travel ban
Artists Olafur Eliasson and Susan Philipsz to star in Art21's new season
Episodes of the TV programme will centre on three artistic hubs: Berlin, San Francisco and Johannesburg
New territory for Glenn Ligon with first solo show in Italy
US artist tries new techniques and tackles immigration in Naples exhibition
Art fest: Gallery Weekend Berlin takes over the city
Commercial and non-commercial enterprises combine as the most important event in the German art calendar gets underway
MCA Chicago launches Dunya Contemporary Art Prize and names first winner, Sophia Al-Maria
The $100,000 award recognises mid-career artists from the Middle East and its diaspora
Carsten Höller puts plant life to the test—with slides—at Palazzo Strozzi
The Belgian-born artist has devised experiment with Italian scientist Stefano Mancuso
How did they do that? Young gallery opens vast new Mayfair space
Despite soaring rents in the area, Unit London will open in former Citibank building on Hanover Square in June
Ukrainian artists tackle country’s political turmoil head on in Budapest show
Exhibition at Ludwig Museum aims to uncover work that remains "a blind-spot in the European cultural arena"
Kehinde Wiley—the artist behind Obama's presidential portrait—signs with Hollywood talent agency
Brillstein Entertainment Partners will licence the US artist's paintings and "identify directing opportunities"
What Samson Young did next—the artist will unveil a new sound piece for the Guggenheim New York
The work will feature “impossible” instruments created after intense research carried out at Edinburgh University
Indian galleries raise their game at Art Basel in Hong Kong
Presence of more dealers at the fair signals a comeback in the country’s art market
Spotlight on… Art Central in Hong Kong
What to see at Art Basel in Hong Kong's satellite fair
Secretive Myanmar to host touring Hong Kong contemporary show
The exhibition organised by Para Site will 'challenge preconceived notions about the region'
Great Apes: when Planet of the Apes meets a White Cube opening
A new play in London based on Will Self’s 1997 novel is a viciously literate satire that imagines an art world populated entirely by chimpanzees
Object Stories from Art Dubai Contemporary
From Peter Young's Mandala-inspired works to Aissa Deebi's views of war-torn Gaza
Podcast episode 24: Mural-gazing with the Dalai Lama, plus Michael Rakowitz
We speak to Thomas Laird about his new book on the murals of Tibet and to Michael Rakowitz about his fourth plinth commission unveiled next week
From $300 to $1.1m: What can you buy at Art Dubai?
From works on paper by emerging artists to an Anish Kapoor sculpture, the fair caters to all pocketbooks
Drawings week hits Paris
The 27th edition of Salon du Dessin at Palais Brongniart assembles 39 dealers from Europe and the US
Picasso painting of Marie-Thérèse gives Phillips the edge in London’s contemporary sales
A record sale at Christie’s and a solid result at Sotheby’s show the market is in full recovery