Contemporary art

The sculpture is mightier than the sword

French dealer Kamel Mennour highlights art’s role in developing humanity

Donors give to local art projects

Knight Foundation awards $2.36m to 53 initiatives in Miami

When Chuck met Jay and more Miami gossip

Sly Stallone reminisces at Versace mansion, artist Larry Bell on spaceships in his head and more gossip from Art Basel in Miami Beach

After Abstract Expressionism

Art Basel in Miami pays homage to America's great art movement

Susan Philipsz: Eavesdropping on the Eisler files

The Turner Prize-winning Scottish artist finds inspiration in the FBI files of the communist composer who spent the 1940s in Hollywood and the Cold War in East Berlin

Art Basel in Miami Beach's new director prepares to build for the future

Noah Horowitz hits ground running with redevelopment set to start

Pamm benefactor Jorge Pérez parties the night away with former Fugees frontman

Dancing in the streets with Rashaad Newsome, Craig Robins and fashionistas take a walk on the style side, and more gossip from Art Basel in Miami Beach

Squawking points

Old friends take up residence at Pamm

Warning: you are under surveillance

The artist Trevor Paglen interrogates the world of mass surveillance and its increasing impact on society

It’s cave art, but not as we know it

Allora & Calzadilla install 1960s Dan Flavin light piece in the Puerto Rican jungle

Rain Room to quench Sharjah’s thirst for art

Edition will go on permanent display in United Arab Emirates from autumn 2017

Elmgreen & Dragset’s skinny dip in Miami Beach

Duo create one of six new works at convention centre

Poland’s richest woman plans new contemporary art museum for Warsaw

Grazyna Kulczyk has sold her culture centre in Poznan to dedicate herself to the project in the Polish capital

Fresh face for Frieze Projects

Raphael Gygax, who has acted as a fair adviser, takes the reins in 2016

Ukrainian artist recreates sculptures destroyed by pro-Russian separatists

Saatchi gallery exhibition features 30 artists from the UK and Ukraine shortlisted for new competition

Auctionscomment

The sky is falling on the art market, or is it?

Kenny Schachter on the auctions in New York

No costumes needed for Xavier Le Roy’s new work

Arts patron John Kaldor helps bring six-hour performance to Sydney

Bubbles, burps and chimes: Sophie Lvoff on Jim Shaw at the New Museum

The artist’s exhibition is at its best in its quieter, less spectacular moments

Art marketcomment

Quantity now wins out over quality

The constant demand by dealers for new work to feed the market has led even the most promising artists to overproduce

Big show for Oldenburg's mini works

Paula Cooper's exhibition, which opens tomorrow, includes miniatures of some of the Pop artist's most monumental pieces

Where anxiety lives: Jessica Lynne on Rashid Johnson

The artist’s Drawing Center exhibition channels the disquiet of black life

Antony Gormley to confront Hong Kong’s raw nerves by placing sculptures on its rooftops

Artist links delayed arrival of Event Horizon with pro-democracy movement and taboo subject of suicide

Iranian artists look forward to the day when sanctions are finally lifted

Interest grows in younger generation active in Tehran’s lively art scene and the Iranian diaspora

Theaster Gates brings new life to bombed-out Bristol church

Performances from poetry readings to gospel singing will run 24/7 for the Chicago-artist’s first public art project in the UK

Arabian art space moves east

Gentrification in Battersea forces Middle Eastern arts foundation to look for another home

Is Catford the next Peckham?

Bow Arts charity has won the tender to create workspaces for between 35 and 60 emerging artists in southeast London

Where have all the artists in central London gone?

Property price rises and rapid redevelopment in the capital are forcing artists to seek studio space in the suburbs and beyond.