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Three to see: London

Gawp and howl at Wifredo Lam’s Vodou inspired-works before being sectioned at the Wellcome Collection’s Bedlam show <br>

Three to see: New York

From a photographer in exile, to a painter changing his stripes

Mike Kelley Foundation could follow Rauschenberg’s lead over image copyright

How to support scholarship among hot topics at Berlin conference on keeping artists’ names alive

Thomas Heatherwick steps up to the challenge of creating a centrepiece for Hudson Yards redevelopment

The British designer unveiled his hive-like staircase structure to be installed in a new public square on the West Side of Manhattan

Hamza Walker named the new executive director of LAXART

The curator comes to the LA non-profit from Chicago’s Renaissance Society

R4 'art city' on Paris’s Île Seguin finds new financial backer

The real estate group Emerige has taken over the project as its chief investor Yves Bouvier faces continuing legal troubles

La Biennale des Antiquaires, the grande dame of art fairs, gets a facelift

Reactions to Paris fair revamp have been positive but US collectors stay away due to Tefaf and terrorism

Scottish government bets big on V&A franchise in Dundee

Costs double but funders keep faith with design museum

As artists play the field, galleries are having to adapt

In-demand artists are increasingly calling the shots and forcing dealers to adapt to more fluid relationships

Three to see: London Design Biennale

From an experimental snowmobile to toe chopsticks and Proustian sweets<br>

Art Basel Cities to launch cultural programming in Buenos Aires

The fair organisation will consult on multi-year initiative in the Argentine capital with the aim of attracting the creative class

Rijksmuseum to reveal ‘truly sensational discovery’ of Brazilian animal drawings by Frans Post

Dutch landscape artist's notes describe six-banded armadillo as "good to eat, tastes like a chicken”

Lucy and Jorge Orta give us a flavour of how much food we consume and waste in new show

Exhibition in Peterborough is&nbsp; dedicated to the couple’s initiatives on the “politics of food”<br> <br>

Three to see: New York

From a New York Ab-Ex anniversary to Bruce Nauman striking a sculptural pose

Why a growing number of museum veterans are crossing over to the commercial sector

Boundaries are not what they used to be, as the former director of the Andy Warhol Museum heads to Sotheby’s

Black history takes its place on Washington’s Mall

US president Barack Obama is due to cut the ribbon on the Smithsonian’s newest museum this month

Simon Fujiwara teams up with former Harrow teacher who became tabloid news

Artist’s film on Joanne Salley will be shown at the Photographers' Gallery in London<br> <br>

Crackdown in Turkey after coup attempt

Artists and cultural figures among thousands being detained

Bill Viola reconnects with Florence’s Old Masters for Palazzo Strozzi show

Uccello and Masolino’s frescoes on US artist’s “wish list” for retrospective next year

V&A director Martin Roth to leave in the autumn

Under his leadership, the museum attracted a record number of visitors and was crowned Museum of the Year

New arts district to boost Johannesburg’s cultural credentials

As South Africa’s market gains momentum, investor mixes galleries, restaurants and destination shopping in his Keyes Art Mile development

Mosaic of drawings by North Korean refugees lights up the Thames

Ik-Joong Kang’s floating sculpture focuses on the reunification of North and South Korea

Royal Academy to stage major Jasper Johns retrospective

Exhibition at London institution will tackle “different chapters” of artist’s vast canon spanning more than 60 years<br> <br>

Tragic photograph of Syrian toddler spurs Alfredo Jaar to action

The New York-based Chilean artist is working with Maltese charity dedicated to saving refugees’ lives at sea

Galaxy of art heads to observatory in Russia’s north Caucasus

Alexandra Paperno among artists creating installations in tiny village in southern Russia

London's National Gallery seeks Treasury’s help to buy £30m Italian Old Master

Fundraising is complicated after aristocratic seller paid inheritance tax on portrait by Pontormo

Three to see: New York

From a nearly-finished show of unfinished works, to a new look at an Old Master

Galleries chip in to bring contemporary art to Florence

Dealers make shows of work by Koons, Currin and Gormley possible