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Meet the birdman of Brooklyn

Duke Riley has trained 2,000 pigeons to perform for Creative Time—and they took flight this weekend

Furniture retailer West Elm has designs on opening New York gallery

Company is collaborating with Uprise Art to create high-end store with contemporary art space

Russia’s Mariinsky Orchestra to play concert in Palmyra

Event will be held in amphitheater of ancient Syrian city recently recaptured from Isil militants

Lenin’s four-tonne head goes on show in Medieval Berlin Fortress

Monument of communist revolutionary was dug up for new permanent exhibition on statues of past political leaders

Iranian artist Atena Farghadani freed after more than a year in prison

Cartoonist had originally been sentenced to 12 years and nine months for criticising Iranian government

Di Donna Gallery to move to Madison Avenue

Venue is three times bigger but still on Upper East Side

Maurizio Cattelan and a donkey who's starred at the Met—it must be Frieze New York

Installation first shown in 1994 at Daniel Newburg Gallery—just for one day

Damien Hirst and Larry Gagosian reunite at Frieze New York

Gallery is re-representing the artist and is staging a solo show at the fair

Real estate mogul Aby Rosen reaches $7m tax settlement

Dispute centred on differing regimes for collecting and dealing in works of art

Hirshhorn Museum plans Kusama bonanza

Survey will feature six of the Japanese artist's Infinity Rooms

Lisson unveils new home under New York's High Line

Gallery's inaugural show is dedicated to the 100-year-old artist Carmen Herrera

Frieze New York opens to VIPs with a splash of Hollywood gold-dust

Fair's deal with entertainment mega-agent could secure its future—but some still need convincing

Panama papers shed light on the art owners prefer to hide offshore

Paintings, properties and the backstory to a record-breaking auction—the revelations so far

German museums under threat as cities seek to balance their books

Local authorities are targeting cultural spending as a way of cutting their deficits but are facing vocal opposition

Montblanc steps up its art patronage

Luxury brand recruits curators to re-energise and expand corporate collection