Exhibitions

A trifecta of shows on Felix Gonzalez-Torres to open in London, New York and Milan

Hauser & Wirth, Andrea Rosen and Massimo de Carlo collaborate to host simultaneous exhibitions

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Ai Weiwei cancels two shows in Denmark in protest over new asylum seeker law

Danish parliament has approved plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees entering the country

Doctor Who star Matt Smith to play Mapplethorpe

Production on biopic, which will also feature Girls actress Zosia Mamet, will begin in the summer

Is Norway gearing up for a new biennial?

Oslo Pilot is testing the water for a permanent contemporary art festival, with citywide exhibitions and events

How university museums bridge the gap between art and science

The Berkeley Art Museum, which reopens this month, joins host of institutions looking to cross disciplinary boundaries

Jack Shainman Gallery thinks inside the grid

Group show to present work by El Anatsui, Bernd and Hilla Becher and Maya Lin

V&A curators unveil 3D-printed portrait of Chelsea Manning in Davos

Model was created using DNA of the transgender whistleblower

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Elmgreen & Dragset create a fictional art fair in Beijing

The Well Fair sees artist duo create a “reversed power relationship”

A man of many—tiny—letters

Collector, author and magician Ricky Jay on the 18th-century limbless entertainer Matthias Buchinger

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Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying

Installation accompanies death objects exhibition

David Bowie, patron saint of gender bending

Duncan Fallowell on the blockbuster travelling show, now at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, until 13 March

A battle won but a war lost: Red Horse at the Cantor Arts Center

Drawings of the Battle of Little Bighorn by the Minneconjou Lakota Sioux warrior are on view in California

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Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash

Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”

New Tate Modern to devote gallery to Artist Rooms

Louise Bourgeois, whose work helped launch gallery, first artist to be featured from collection each year <br>

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Dubai turns to photography in bid to become UAE’s premier arts hub

Dubai Photo Exhibition to launch in March with works from 23 countries

Los Angeles artist sells shadows of sculptures by Koons and Brancusi at a sliver of the price

Ana Prvacki finds a more “sustainable and minimal” form of appropriation art

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Science fiction in the Holy Land

Artists Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind discuss how they are propelling Palestinians into an alternate reality

Art world hero: artists and curators pay tribute to David Bowie

British musician, artist and actor inspired a generation of artists including Tracey Emin and Dexter Dalwood

Swap shop: the stories behind six objects in Pia Camil’s New Museum installation

Find out why visitors brought a glass chicken, a Mardi Gras wig, a vintage hat, a diary page, a quilt and a package of seaweed for the artist’s first solo show

What to see in 2016: our picks of the top exhibitions

Make sure you add these shows to your art viewing schedule

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Vik Muniz to reveal flip side of Mauritshuis’s Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer

Artist's painstaking copies of backs of famous paintings include the Mona Lisa

Top ten shows of 2015

Louisa Buck and Pac Pobric pick their favourite exhibitions of the year in the UK and the US