Exhibitions

Mike Nelson turns Monaco bank into an ultramarine blue underworld

Every surface, from the Baroque staircase and underground vaults, has been daubed for the hallucinogenic project

New show reveals grisly details behind Van Gogh’s mutilated ear

The exhibition in Amsterdam focuses on the artist’s mental illness and includes the revolver that he used to kill himself

A bridge between New York and Paris: on Stuart Davis at the Whitney Museum

The artist's power came from his ability to navigate between American realism and European Modernism

Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir

Artists mix fiction and reality in the ninth edition that reimagines the city’s past, present and future

Dis-affecting: Mostafa Heddaya on the Ninth Berlin Biennale

The show’s curators give false prominence to simple provocations

Three to see: London

From Georgia O’Keeffe’s great blooming flowers and Walter Sickert’s snaps to 50 metres of latex in Westminster <br>

Three to see: New York

From Bruce Conner’s haunting assemblage and László Moholy-Nagy’s gesamtkunstwerk to blackness in abstraction<br> <br>

Katharina Grosse's splash of colour for New York beachside building

The Rockaway! project at Fort Tilden opened this week but will vanish in November<br>

Francis Bacon's great gambles—both in art and in the casino—on show in Monte Carlo

The artist regarded his losses on the roulette table as “an expense related to painting”

Africa's first major Matisse show to open in Johannesburg

Exhibition will highlight inspiration the French artist drew from African figurines and masks

Mystery over Bosch's piper

Dutch artist's famous painting, The Haywain, shows musician playing bagpipe incorrectly. Could he be based on a previous print?

Three to see: London

See the best of British at Christie's then hop over to Hockney before going underground for a night of art <br> <br>

Three to see: New York

Get evicted with Martha Rosler before your around-the-world trip with Sigmar Polke<br> <br>

The seriousness of a child at play: Kenneth Baker on Joel Shapiro at the Nasher Sculpture Center

Shapiro says he only wants to 'stick stuff in space,' which belies the many important questions his work raises

Impressionism leaps off the canvas and into the Bronx

Exhibition brings a period garden and 20 US Impressionist works to New York

Steve Martin—comic, collector and now curator—helps launch Lawren Harris show in Toronto

At Tuesday’s preview, the actor and art enthusiast spoke about his first encounter with the Canadian painter’s work, and offered advice to young artists

Three to see: New York

Bas Jan Ader may get you down but Stuart Davis will lift you up

Three to see: London

From dour Dostoevsky to sunny South Americans, what to see this weekend in the capital

Sharjah show looks at immigration in a land of migrants

Al Haraka Baraka at the Maraya Art Centre examines the UAE as melting pot

Russian art collection to get permanent display in UK country home

Andrey Filatov’s Art Russe signs long-term deal with Lord Montagu’s Beaulieu Palace House

Houellebecq lights up Paris with photography show—and a smoking room

Controversial author caters for fellow smokers at Palais de Tokyo show

Kunstmuseum stages sculptural revolution

Museum’s new building opens with ambitious survey ranging from Brancusi to Bruce Nauman

Beyeler gets the balance right

Alexander Calder’s grandson picks his favourite works in the artist’s joint show with Fischli/Weiss

Kids commission the darnedest things: New York high-schoolers choose public art for Long Island City

Brooklyn-based artist Mika Tajima work looks like a hot tub with plumes of coloured vapour that change hues based on the fluctuating price of gold