Contemporary art
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
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