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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

Porn stars hit the decks plus more Miami gossip

Solange and Ruckus talk dirty, Pamela Anderson on orca watch, and so much more

Goodbye swirly carpets, hello 800-room hotel

Convention Center revamp to start after this year’s fair

Car conundrum

Durham's installation perplexes gallery

Bilious art and more Miami gossip

Julian Schnabel gets the hump, Adrien Brody is burger king and more gossip from Art Basel in Miami Beach

Collectors support El Salvador

US artist Mark Dion visits local artists as part of new exchange programme

Franklin Sirmans reveals major Pamm purchase

Stan Douglas’s epic video, jointly acquired with Lacma, is first step in growing collection

Artist's immigrant performance axed

Untitled fair organisers cancelled it just hours before it was set to take place

Miami exhibition confronts gun violence

Show’s message reinforced by California shootings

Enter the politics: Art Basel in Miami Beach gets serious

A sea change for the sea town as the outside world comes in

Depart Foundation arrives in Miami

Organisation moves into South Beach hotel