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

Earliest surviving figurative sculpture, carved from mammoth tusk, is among 160 objects in Living with Gods

Russian art patron Igor Tsukanov has created a show at the Saatchi Gallery about artists who have risked protesting against conditions in Russia since 1991

Roman museum aims to become the primary reference for scholarship on the artist

From Cézanne’s ballsy portraits to a Tove Jansson survey showing that she was much more than Moomin’s mother

From ancient Crete to contemporary China

Italian artist known for submerging a giant pair of hands in Venice’s Grand Canal plans to install the steel sculpture next year

New work is about how prisoners lost sensory perception and “eventually their minds”

A show of the artist's work in Sheboygan is sure to spur more interest in his art and life

Show of more than 40 artists includes Jenny Holzer, Grayson Perry and Gerhard Richter

From Soutine’s flushed-cheek portraits to Alex Katz’s 10ft-tall sculpture of his wife Ada 

El colectivo está ayudando a museos a acceder a una audiencia hispanohablante con servicios de traducción e interpretación—pero están marcando el límite con espacios de gentrificación

The collective is helping art venues access a Spanish-speaking audience with translation and interpretation services—but they draw the line with museums they see as gentrifiers

Celebrate Halloween with ghosts, spirits and souls

Chinese artist was en route to premiere of his documentary Human Flow when staff wrongly claimed his visa was invalid

The show, which was met with protest before it even opened, packs a punch

French artist has filled the 13,000 sq. m space in Paris with an exhibition based on the days of the week

The protest work He Will Not Divide US has been moved four times after attacks by far-right extremists and vandals in the US and UK

Exhibition brings high priest of conceptualism to Melbourne International Festival

Artist's ideas on "borderless space" particularly potent against the backdrop of Brexit

The bust of Napoleon Bonaparte has been authenticated and is due to go on loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

New show at Turner Contemporary brings together artists who both once lived in seaside town

From John Akomfrah’s video on the threat of climate change to Nick Goss’s paintings of a great flood via Katharina Grosse’s paint-splashed walls

A New York gallery show and new publication draw fresh attention to little known collaboration between the fashion photographer and African-American writer

What will happen when the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction? Plus: the New Museum's big new show on gender, and our literary editor talks 18th-century princesses

New 500 sq. m column-free gallery makes space for performance art

Artist unveils his “black site” installation in Yorkshire as Guardian article reveals the suffering of prisoners shackled in dungeons in Afghanistan and Thailand

Visitors to war photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa’s project experience the humanity in people on both sides of conflicts