Diary

Ashley just wants to have fun

The Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton has his first US survey at the Flag Art Foundation

Smells like Marina spirit

Abramovic’s show in 2020 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts will mark the first time a woman has been the subject of a retrospective at the prestigious institution

Getting high with JFK

Teenagers in California’s Coachella Valley have found a creative way of “engaging” with the art on view at Desert X

Taking the alphabet by the horns

Rarely is an instrumental concert as visually exciting as it is aurally, but that was the case at the Darmstadt Ensemble’s quirky recent performance

El Hanani, quickest on the draw in SoHo

For nearly half a century, Jacob El Hanani has been composing obsessively detailed drawings using a Rapidograph pen, typically employed by architects

Draw your own conclusions

Fill in the blanks of art crimes solved and unsolved with two new adult colouring books

Street artist Banksy up in arms about arms

The event Art the Arms featured other artist-activists such as the Guerrilla Girls and Peter Kennard

Storage wars in the Lower East Side

The conceptual artist Aaron Flint Jamison caused a stir last month when he decided that for his solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery he would show only works in the gallery’s storage

A Syrian in space

The astronaut Muhammed Faris was hailed a national hero in 1987 after accompanying a Soviet crew on a trip to the Mir space station

Ofili adds restaurant design to his CV

To celebrate its 50th birthday this year, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago has given itself a gift as part of a building redesign: a new restaurant