Contemporary art
Are we colonialising Middle Eastern art?
As the Middle East increasingly becomes a producer and consumer of contemporary art, the role of the West as 'tastemaker' grows progressively more troubling
Interview with Jeff Koons on the eve of his summer show at the Serpentine: Pop culture meets art history
Koons talks to us about the artists who inspire him, his studio system, and what he hopes to communicate to the public through his work
Leading collector plans contemporary art space in Mexico City
The museum will be drawn from the Jumex Foundation's 2,000 works
Two artists and an soldier are taking the war in Iraq to the American people
A British conceptual artist, an Iraqi artist, and a US soldier who served in Iraq travelled from New York to Los Angeles with the remains of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bomb attack in tow
Forty years of Art Basel: From Stübli to global hub
Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades
Interview with Antony Gormley on the Fourth Plinth project: “Why not treat everybody as a hero?”
If he gets planning permission, Antony Gormley will transform Trafalgar Square into a space for the ordinary man and woman
Portraits of leading Muslims (and President Obama) by Sacha Jafri for Prince Charles
Jafri hopes to raise up to $5 million for one of the Prince of Wales’s charities
Havana Biennial opens as relations with US thaw
Local artists show alongside established international names, as collectors and exhibitors circumvent trade restrictions
The changing faces of Cindy Sherman
We speak to the chameleon-like photographer about her latest series, in which she becomes a string of fictional, surgically-enhanced socialites
Pinault’s electric chair Christ upsets the French; black version to be shown in London
Paul Fryer's work was installed in the city of Gap over Easter weekend
Interview with Chuck Close on how his grandma’s crochet inspired his artistic vision
On the eve of a show at PaceWildenstein in New York, the veteran US artist discusses the importance of the year he spent with his grandmother when he was eleven
Interview with Patti Smith: "I look at Jeff Koons’s stuff and I’m appalled”
The veteran rocker discusses the artists who inspire her, those who do not, and what drives her photography
British collector Anita Zabludowicz reveals photo collection in New York
Zabludowicz is also planning a Las Vegas space
Francesca von Habsburg’s collection goes on long-term loan to Iceland
Decision made after rejection by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid
New Kinetica fair celebrates kinetic and hi-tech art
The event will be held 28 February to 2 March
Collector Stella Kesaeva’s plans for a new gallery in her garage
The Moscow-based collector has amassed a hoard of Russian contemporary art
Artist Interview: Marilyn Manson and his dark Miami debut
The gothic rock star reveals the inspirations and compulsions behind his new work on show in the Design District
From Russia with art: meeting London's newest gallerists
Are these women the real deal?
Saatchi purchase makes collector Howard Faber think again
$6m from sale of Chinese paintings, including a Zeng Fanzhi, encourages him to review his remaining collection
MoMA buys Chinese contemporary photographs including works by Ai Weiwei and Sheng Qi
Twenty-eight pieces have been purchased from collector Larry Warsh
“I always insist that the artist must be given carte blanche”: Interview with Huang Yong Ping
The artist discusses his work, politics, censorship, “fake art” and the Beijing Olympics
Meet China’s top collector of contemporary art
Guan Yi tells us about his plans to open a museum and sculpture park on a 16.5-acre plot of land in Beijing
Another private collector opens his own gallery
A new contemporary art gallery for Barcelona
We talk to Zhang Hao Ming, part-owner of Beijing’s Art Now gallery which took part in Art Basel for the first time in June
Telecoms millionaire, restaurateur, hotelier, reality TV producer, gallery owner and collector
Conveyor belt of directors continues as the world wonders, what is going on at the Ullens Center in Beijing?
Since it opened last November, four out of five senior curators and directors have left and one has apparently been redeployed
Iranian artists triumph at Christie's Dubai as contemporary market hits its stride
Christie's '08 auction report sees the mediocre pushed aside to make way for big names
Artist Interview: David Lynch’s diamond dome
The cult film-maker shows off his skills as an artist with a new, atmospheric work in Miami in the Cartier pavilion
Contemporary art chosen for new US embassy chosen “to connect” to China
The new embassy in Beijing, opening in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and others
Dubai fair reaps reward of focus on Indian contemporary art
British collectors Charles Saatchi and Frank Cohen were among those who bought
David Hockney donates his largest painting to Tate
Bigger Trees near Warter is 12m long and 4.5m high, and made up of 50 separate canvases