Contemporary art

Slow start for Brussels Gallery Weekend

Event attracted few international collectors but included many standout shows

Günther Uecker gets first solo show in London in more than 50 years

Zero Group artist has created six new nail paintings about human violence for exhibition at Dominique Lévy gallery

Galleries chip in to bring contemporary art to Florence

Dealers make shows of work by Koons, Currin and Gormley possible

Contemporary art fair comes to Warsaw's historic Palace of Culture

New event in Soviet relic casts an eye beyond Polish borders

Contemporary African art to take centre stage at Fondation Louis Vuitton

Three major shows are planned for Paris museum next year, including one featuring collection of Jean Pigozzi

History of indigenous American people takes centre stage at Site Santa Fe Biennial

New York-based artist Pablo Helguera has created a work based on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680

Artists speak out against racial injustice in the US

Growing number of exhibitions and works address current and historical issues of race and politics

Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir

Artists mix fiction and reality in the ninth edition that reimagines the city’s past, present and future

Valeria Napoleone's all-female art collection hits the road

The London-based philanthropist partners with Museums Sheffield to show works by women artists

Floating Piers: how Italy learnt to love Christo

The artist’s golden walkways on Lake Iseo drew more than 1.2 million visitors in 16 days

Paint with the polar bears: Norwegian government launches art foundation and residency on Svalbard

As coal-mining industry faces collapse on the remote Arctic archipelago, attention is shifting towards culture

And now for something completely different: artists take over former BBC TV headquarters

Residencies will be held in the East Tower of the West London site, once home to children’s programmes

Five offbeat art spaces to seek out in Istanbul

From a soundscape in an abandoned car park to Orhan Pamuk’s imaginary museum brought to life

Put a ring on it: Mariko Mori to hang symbol of unity above Brazilian waterfall ahead of Olympic Games

The Japanese artist plans to realise the second of her six global ecological projects in Brazil

Sotheby’s bounces back with steady contemporary art sale

Auction exceeded expectations after disappointing results for Impressionist and Modern art on Monday

Big in Berlin: four trends spotted at Gallery Weekend

Dealers put their best foot forward as the art world descends on the German capital for three days of openings

Ai Weiwei's first feature-length film to focus on refugees

Chinese artist documents humanitarian crisis from Lesbos to Lebanon

Wim Delvoye unveils plans for museum in historic Iranian city

Belgian artist restores palatial buildings in Kashan and creates works with Isfahan metalworkers

William Kentridge unveils 550-metre frieze along Rome's River Tiber

Mural pays tribute to city through more than 80 figures from Roman mythology to the present

Koons’s kitschy kids and Dubuffet’s beard lead New York sales at Phillips

The works are the first major offerings to come up in a crammed week of auctions

Museums and galleries turn to the work of Gordon Parks

In the ten years since the artist’s death, interest in his work has steadily grown

Roger Hiorns hopes to see lots of planes buried around the world

UK artist says jetliners could be interred in the US, South Africa and the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea

Update: Home of Cairo’s leading Townhouse Gallery demolished

Latest setback for non-profit space shut down by Egyptian authorities last year

Baghdad-based Ruya Foundation launches first online database for Iraqi artists

Website will provide a platform for contemporary artists to show—and possibly sell—works

Artist opens subversive supermarket in Shanghai

Xu Zhen has recreated a Chinese mini-mart, but the packages have been emptied of their products

SP-Arte doubles down to beat the recession

The leading Latin American art fair is introducing a section dedicated to Brazilian design

French novelist Michel Houellebecq to undergo medical exam at Manifesta

Provocative writer will also shows works at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris this summer