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Artoon by Pablo Helguera, June 2017
“We believe art museums should engage with scientific research—so we hired a neuroscientist to help us make visitors pay higher admission fees.”
Lights designed by Le Corbusier withdrawn from Paris auction at last minute
Artcurial auctioneers left surprised as sale of 100 light sconces from Firminy World Heritage site is halted
Spy games: Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron turn the Park Avenue Armory into a panopticon playground
The show Hansel and Gretel, which looks at how surveillance changes the perception of public space, is a mix of menace and fun
Andrea Fraser tracks down museum trustees' political donations
The artist says her project will examine how the US has become a plutocracy
UK election could trigger a cultural bonanza
Both the major political parties make big promises about new money for the arts
Organisers of Ghost Ship artist space charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter
The two men were involved in creating unsafe conditions at the converted Oakland warehouse that caught fire last year, prosecutors say
Monet to be star of London’s National Gallery next year
Exhibition of French Impressionist will be joined in 2018 by shows on Thomas Cole, Ed Ruscha, Mantegna and Bellini
Damien Hirst gives Dan Colen his first major solo show in London
Bubble gum, trash and photorealist paintings to go on show at Newport Street Gallery in October
Hard Brexit could damage UK’s world-class museums
Leading directors concerned about uncertain status of colleagues who are EU nationals
Former Louvre director Pierre Rosenberg to donate Old Masters collection to French town
New centre in Les Andelys will house holdings, which include numerous works by Nicolas Poussin
Iñárritu's VR project brings terrifying experiences of migrants and refugees to life
Oscar-winning director, whose work opens at Milan's Fondazione Prada this week, says it's reductive to call it anti-Trump
Museums in the US and Canada show their Pride in June
Institutions are celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month with exhibitions and events
Art Basel files first lawsuit in the US—and it’s against Adidas
Art fair says the sportswear company infringed trademark with trainers distributed during Art Basel Miami Beach
Aros Triennial unveils swathe of new commissions along five kilometres of Danish coastline
Works in the inaugural exhibition include an “anger room” and a safe haven for bees
Liverpool celebrates The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album with a little help from artist friends
Among the 13 new commissions, Judy Chicago has designed a giant psychedelic mural while Jeremy Deller has produced a series of billboards and a secret performance
Vito Acconci: the controversial and pioneering US artist who refused all restraint to explore his body
He sat under a floor at a gallery with a microphone for eight hours and masturbated while speaking of his fantasies about people sitting above
Sam Durant’s controversial Scaffold to be dismantled and burned
The artist and museum have reached an agreement with Dakota after protests
Giuseppe Penone unveils Rome’s first permanent installation of contemporary art
The luxury fashion brand Fendi commissioned the new work, installed outside its flagship boutique
Have bike, will empower: Tania Bruguera launches public art initiative CycleNews in Corona
For the project, women will hit the streets of Queens on bicycles to inform the immigrant-rich community of their rights and helpful government services
Final show in Vienna for Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary as organisation relocates to Prague
Exhibition inspired by oceans opening this week will be the last for “some time”
David Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails
The South African photographer also gets career survey at Centre Pompidou, Paris
Massachusetts museum’s expansion enables artists to dream big
Mass MoCA has planned massive, long-term shows on artists such as Jenny Holzer and James Turrell
How a $25,000 NEA grant became a springboard for change in a rural Minnesota community
The government money helped launch an initiative that has raised $1.2m in private funding
Who will win race to run Unesco?
France’s former culture minister among candidates to be new director-general
Renaissance royal costumes sparkle again in Dresden
Preserved by Saxon elders and plundered by Stalin’s Red Army, textiles return to view for first time since Second World War
Tate Modern continues to champion female artists with shows on Anni Albers and Joan Jonas in 2018
Major show on figurative painting at Tate Britain will feature Freud and Bacon while Tate Liverpool will host Egon Schiele survey
Conceptual artist Bernar Venet gets a bigger stage in the UK with three shows this summer
Gargantuan steel sculptures by French artist fill the grounds of Cliveden country house
Rare historic coins return to Salzburg Museum 70 years after they were looted
American Numismatic Society purchased the coins with aim of tracing original owner