Contemporary art
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
Science fiction in the Holy Land
Artists Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind discuss how they are propelling Palestinians into an alternate reality
Art world hero: artists and curators pay tribute to David Bowie
British musician, artist and actor inspired a generation of artists including Tracey Emin and Dexter Dalwood
Monuments to absence: Gregory Gilbert on a new book about Charles Ray
The artist's excessive emphasis on production eclipses everything else
Art among the cacti: recurring exhibition to launch in the Southern Californian desert
Site-specific works will be dotted around Coachella Valley for the new Desert X show
Three contemporary art collectors to know in Taiwan
Art lovers with international visions
Vik Muniz to reveal flip side of Mauritshuis’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer
Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa
Jenny Holzer draws on Walt Whitman for Aids memorial
App will allow people to keep memories alive far beyond New York
Frank Stella’s decline: on the artist's Whitney Museum retrospective
Critical conviction regarding Stella's work has fallen with the quality of the art
Walk on water with Christo
The artist who once wrapped islands in Biscayne Bay reveals why he is in a hurry to create Floating Piers
Trevor Paglen dives deep into the system
Off the coast of Florida, the artist finds the fibre-optic cables tapped by the NSA
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Artists who organised performances in Collins Park earlier this week, as part of Art Basel in Miami Beach’s Public sector, also work in other media and had pieces on sale at the fair
























