Contemporary art

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

The Met gets a second chance to get contemporary art right

After 75 years of fumbling, the New York museum can use the Breuer building to play to its strengths and explore art-making across time

What will Shanghai look like in 100 years? New culture initiative to predict the future

Hans Ulrich Obrist and Yongwoo Lee have invited artists, architects, hackers, bloggers and activists to participate in inaugural Shanghai Project

Steinway pairs visual artists and composers in new piano commissions

Mark Bradford and Robert Glasper are the first to create a collaborative work

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It's alive: Philippe Parreno lights up Gladstone Gallery

The artist's latest show includes an active bioreactor

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Full of prim euphemism: Brian Dillon on Dave Hickey’s 25 Women

The book’s finest points are overshadowed by dispiriting foolishness

From pill-popping birds to awkward mannequins: Encounters at Art Basel Hong Kong

Curator Alexie Glass-Kantor picks six works from her section dedicated to large-scale projects

Francis Alÿs films children’s games in refugee camps in northern Iraq

Belgian-born, Mexico City-based artist was on research trip to the region with the Ruya Foundation

Women make their mark on Art Dubai

Tenth edition sees female artists make up almost half of those represented

'You don't need a gallery to show ideas': Orit Gat on Seth Siegelaub at the Stedelijk

An exhibition in Amsterdam devoted to the dealer's work explores his curatorial ideas

How to be a performance artist like Marina Abramovic

Athens project trains Greek artists and the public in the “Abramovic Method”

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Cool doesn’t cut it: Andrew Lambirth on painting today

The presentation of painting all too often undermines the nature of true invention

Imran Qureshi’s miniatures take over London’s Barbican—and a park in Bradford

The Pakistani artist will paint an Indian garden in Lister Park, drawing on the experiences of the British Indian army 100 years ago

Gerhard Richter slams proposed closure of Germany's Museum Morsbroich

Plans to shut institution and sell its seminal Modern and contemporary works are "alarming" artist says

Conrad Shawcross’s monumental sculpture arrives on time in St Pancras, London

<p> Dramatic column for Francis Crick medical research centre stands opposite international train station </p>

Artist residency programme takes to the high seas

Seven artists will live and work on board commercial cargo ships, criss-crossing the globe along maritime routes

Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar faces down Donald Trump over immigration

Monument on US-Mexico border incorporates parts of fence separating the two countries

Bruce Munro’s light installation to illuminate Ayers Rock

British artist wants to recapture joyful moment of camping near the Australian landmark with his fiancée