Contemporary art

Aloha Kusama, artist’s polka dot sculpture heads to Hawaii

The bright pink installation heralds the first Honolulu Biennial, which launches next year

Computer love: exhibition celebrates Manchester’s tech lineage

City once home to computing pioneer Alan Turing was centre for cutting-edge technologies

Lawnews

American Airlines and seven others sued over damage to Lucio Fontana sculpture

Concetto Spaziale was being shipped from France to the Armory Show in New York last year

Ai Weiwei wraps Berlin landmark in lifejackets in memory of drowned refugees

Mayor of Lesbos donated 14,000 vests to the Chinese artist and activist who created installation outside city’s Konzerthaus

Middle market shines through during week of uncertainty at London auctions

Cautious estimates at Bonhams and Christie’s produce solid results in cooling market

London auctions signal the end of boom years for post-war and contemporary art

Phillips and Sotheby’s sales come in short of estimates—but those in the trade call it a healthy correction

Art—coming soon to a cinema near you

Short films by major artists will be screened unannounced before regular features in the UK

Goya, Magritte and Cai Guo-Qiang feature in Arab art show

Qatar Museums presents key works from collection in Bank of Santander’s Madrid space

Private collection of Warhols pops up in Oxford

Beuys prints among more than 100 works drawn from Andrew and Christine Hall’s “extraordinary pack of cards”

Artnews

Bridget Riley’s art helps put spin into Louisiana’s Op art show

Survey of eye- and mind-boggling works opens in Danish museum

Greek island donates 14,000 refugee lifejackets to Ai Weiwei

Chinese artist and activist to create work to draw attention to people smuggling

The bee’s knees: UK’s Expo pavilion to come to Kew Gardens

Wolfgang Buttress’s installation on the honey-makers was on show in Milan

David Attenborough opens £1.5m gallery for socially-engaged art

BBC naturalist inaugurated Lucy and Jorge Orta's show on environmental change at Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester

Artnews

Why is the art market like a carousel?

Academic Olav Velthuis says growing a scene is “hard and tedious; but once it gets going it gets easier”

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After stint in the doldrums, India Art Fair shows signs of picking up

Event has been repositioned as “the” place to see South Asian art

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Ai Weiwei cancels two shows in Denmark in protest over new asylum seeker law

Danish parliament has approved plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees entering the country

Artnews

Art world heads back to school as Frieze Academy launches

Lectures and courses are designed to further careers of arts professionals

Is Norway gearing up for a new biennial?

Oslo Pilot is testing the water for a permanent contemporary art festival, with citywide exhibitions and events

Artists sign up for Great War commemoration

Rebecca Warren, Ciara Phillips, Yinka Shonibare and Imran Qureshi will create new works as part of UK’s official arts programme, 14-18 Now

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Elmgreen & Dragset create a fictional art fair in Beijing

The Well Fair sees artist duo create a “reversed power relationship”

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Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying

Installation accompanies death objects exhibition

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Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital

Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic

Gerhard Richter painting being auctioned by Malekis could topple record

Abstract work is top lot in Sotheby’s London evening sale next month

Reviewnews

Secrets from a lost world: David D'Arcy on Martin Wong at the Bronx Museum

The exhibition is too stiff for the artist, but he shines through

New Tate Modern to devote gallery to Artist Rooms

Louise Bourgeois, whose work helped launch gallery, first artist to be featured from collection each year <br>

Artnews

British construction boss to open new gallery in Ghana

Marwan Zakhem hopes to create a buzz around the burgeoning scene in the West African country with Gallery 1957

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Dubai turns to photography in bid to become UAE’s premier arts hub

Dubai Photo Exhibition to launch in March with works from 23 countries