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Joo had joined the museum in 2017 as its first contemporary art curator and most recently organised an ambitious project by Kara Walker

Miguel Coyula’s “Chronicles of the Absurd” provides a rare inside view of artist interactions with an oppressive government

A unique and artful exhibition of imaginary books is now on view at the Grolier Club

Liz Nielsen, who showed a piece of her own at the Untitled Art fair, drove from New York to Miami and back with a van full of other artists’ work

Paintings attributed to major Modernists in a recent show at the gallery of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) are facing scrutiny

Sánchez, who fled Cuba and ultimately settled in Puerto Rico, only achieved widespread critical acclaim late in her career

Unlike his best-known, monumental and ephemeral works, the artist’s newly restored Rosebush is firmly embedded in the environment

Our review of 2024: record sales, exhibitions, fakes—and tracking down Dr Gachet

From the devastating war in Gaza to art attacks in museums, our editors analyse the year’s biggest stories

Exhibitions offer fresh looks at a once globally famous French 19th-century Orientalist artist and Pakistan’s embrace of modernity

A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular main entrance closely integrated with the rest of the London institution and with the public space of Trafalgar Square

Sustainability features at heritage-listed former railway factory will include heating system that stores summer warmth for use in the winter months

The biennial award is named for the late collector and food company president Don Tyson

The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s latest “Landslide” report marks a shift from the annual initiative’s usual focus on threatened landscapes

After months of protests in solidarity with Palestine and against a new dress code banning workers from wearing keffiyehs, the Queens institution’s staff are organising for “better conditions”

Vima, the first international contemporary art fair in Cyprus, opens in the spring, while Untitled Art expands to Houston

Less than a year ago, the auction house reduced buyer’s premium and tried to introduce a flat 10% vendor’s commission to avoid bartering. It did not prove popular with sellers

The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and São Paulo

Plus, full listings of the biennials, triennials and festivals taking place throughout the year

The construction of Saadiyat Cultural District is due to be completed, while the Studio Museum in Harlem will unveil its new 82,000 sq. ft building

We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

The London private members club, owned by the founders of Hauser & Wirth gallery, was shut down by police in November following a “serious crime” at the Soho venue

Heritage organisations remain opposed to President Macron’s plans to replace chapel windows at the newly reopened cathedral

New welcome pavilions and a landscaped forecourt are scheduled for completion early 2026

Fresh off a pop-up show in Ireland, the director of the Connecticut-based Palestine Museum US hopes the former Israeli Embassy could become a permanent European outpost

A long-awaited report from Ontario’s auditor general finds that the redevelopment plan for Toronto’s modernist landscape is “not fair, transparent or accountable”

Martin Wilson, the chairman of the British Art Market Federation (Bamf), is joining as chief executive and will oversee global operations

The deputy director and chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum says she is “humbled by the breadth of this responsibility”

The show, at Hauser & Wirth St Moritz, looks at the artist’s visits to his Swiss dealer Bruno Bischofberger, when he would go cross-country skiing and visit agricultural shows

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Among the initiatives launched to mark both 1,000 days since the invasion and its approaching third anniversary is an exhibition in Kharkiv exploring how the concept of safety “has been profoundly redefined by the war”

The bronze is now expected to sell for up to €2m when it is auctioned in Orléans in February

“It was disheartening to experience this level of institutional complacency and complicity,” says the artist Les Gomez-Gonzalez

The house’s auction total saw a double-digit decrease for a second year in a row—but private sales are booming

The artist Odee rejected a proposal by the fishing conglomerate Samherji that would have required him to pay £1 and hand over control of the website; now the company wants £206,000

The 1,500ft-long, coiling earthwork in Utah’s Great Salt Lake is arguably the best known example of Land art

Former minister of state for culture, creative Industries and tourism Margaret Hodge will lead the process

The artist’s 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian

The new contract raises the base hourly wage and reinstates a pre-pandemic retirement programme

At Shrine Empire gallery in New Delhi, the Dalit artist reconsiders the past of his native Kerala

The Texas pilgrimage site for devotees of Abstract Expressionism returns just in time for the holidays

Max and Rosemary Levai claim Pierre’s “long-time paramour” Marcia Levine is responsible for his death and should not receive any of his inheritance

The meaning of the image has been a subject of debate among the artist’s followers

Staff cuts at auction house come as $1bn deal with Abu Dhabi wealth fund closes 

2024 highlights from Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper’s contributing editor

Andrey Zakirzyanov’s video animations of famous paintings are drawing in millions of views on across social media

The Clotilda shipwreck will remain submerged as a monument to the 110 enslaved people it carried—and in tribute to their descendants in Mobile, Alabama

Mandeep Raikhy’s touring work, inspired by the prehistoric statue Dancing Girl, considers how the past is wielded in the present

The show at Turner Contemporary features works made from organic materials that rot, wither and stink—but there is new growth being fostered too

Historical fiction on the famed bohemian collector brings her relationships to life but leaves out much of what she actually achieved

A vast new digital art institute, Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, opened earlier this month with “cutting-edge labs and immersive exhibition spaces”

O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more

Highway road work has uncovered an ancient civilisation’s ceremonial centrepiece

The New York gallery first opened in 1971

Warsaw-born RIBA gold medal winner, who became the professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, changed architectural understanding

Italian investor Nanni Bassani Antivari secured the still-life Cut Melon with a €26.7m bid in June, but has yet to send the auction house any money

The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery

Plans to rebuild the San Antonio de Padua Church and Franciscan Convent in Iquique are in the early stages

This unlikely grouping is part of an astonishing story involving New York’s Guggenheim Museum

Analysis shows that clothing discovered in royal tombs of Vergina in Greece could be linked to the king rather than his father