Contemporary art
Syrian photographer: 'We refuse to die as a number in the international media'
Issa Touma vows to return to Aleppo amid the fighting
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
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”
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
Ellsworth Kelly’s last projects are also firsts: photography show and $23m building
Initiatives in New York and Texas
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”
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
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
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
Elmgreen & Dragset create a fictional art fair in Beijing
The Well Fair sees artist duo create a “reversed power relationship”
Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying
Installation accompanies death objects exhibition
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
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>
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
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