The fair has never been more international, but many of its pleasures are rooted in its links with the local art scene
‘Fountain’ is perhaps the most famous artwork of the 20th century, but its creator’s intentions are still endlessly debated
In Rakewell’s opinion, Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Bacon-esque painting for the cover of the band’s upcoming LP is their best album art in decades
Plus: Kader Attia to curate Kochi-Muziris Biennial | Building of US border wall damages archaeological site | United States returns 650 looted artefacts to India | Collector Doris Fisher dies at 94 | winners of Max Mara and Archibald Prizes announced
The Met opens the new Condé M. Nast Galleries with this expansive show of fashion through the centuries
The artist is filling the museum’s Duveen Galleries with an expansive installation about migration and memory
Thirty shortlisted works in an impressive range of forms and materials go on display at the National Gallery Singapore
SFMOMA recreates the Salon d’Automne of 1905, when a portrait of the artist’s wife shocked viewers and set Fauvism in motion
The Chinese American artist excelled at stagy scenes of San Francisco’s Chinatown as well as moody New York nocturnes
Though best known as a jewellery artist working at a minute scale, Chan has scaled up by creating two monumental installations in Venice and Shanghai
Dreamed up by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis in the 1920s, the Italianate village on the north Wales coast is still a delightful lesson in how to take frivolity in design seriously
The Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, an offbeat gem of the city’s arts scene, faces an uncertain future along with many other organisations
The artist moves between studios in New York and Puerto Rico, where music – be it bossa nova or hip hop – is always playing in the background
Online sales were hailed as the future of the market but most buyers still prefer brick-and-mortar sales
The Venice Biennale is about to begin. After a year and more of tragedy, scandal and, let’s face it, farce, Rakewell can’t wait for the art to be centre stage again
The artist’s work is guided by a deep appreciation of the rhythms of the natural world. Ahead of his presentation at the Venice Biennale in the Canadian Pavilion, he talks about how he has grown as an artist
The Met presents a new side of the Old Master by highlighting the influence of women on his work
The textile artist Amina Agueznay talks to Apollo about representing her country in its first appearance among the national pavilions at the biennial
The painter pulls from sources that range from modernist art to everyday experience to create unsettling visions of life in the United States
Both artists have long mined pop culture to explore how it has shaped American life, for both good and ill
Attempts at self-erasure never looked so good at Dia Beacon's celebration of the minimalist's 90th birthday
There might be no sheep, but Britain’s best-known botanical garden provides a fitting setting for the artist's massive sculptures
An exhibition of little-known interior scenes in Venice gives us a new window onto the artist's work
Plus: the Venice Biennale jury resigns en masse; and Janne Sirén is stepping down as the director of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum
