Contemporary art

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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

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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

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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>

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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

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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

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Monuments to absence: Gregory Gilbert on a new book about Charles Ray

The artist's excessive emphasis on production eclipses everything else

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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

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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

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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

Buy a piece of the action

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

Artist goes off the rails

Marianne Vitale's sculpture uses recycled steel