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Maurizio Cattelan’s latest provocative work is buzzy and fun. But is it art?

Zona Maco has announced that more than one-hundred galleries hailing from twenty-six countries in the Americas, Europe, and Asia will participate in its next edition, which will take place in Centro

Each day the sinking reality of climate change deepens, manifesting in rising sea levels and blazing fires. A human reckoning is unavoidable. Teresita Fernández’s retrospective immerses viewers in a

With images drawn alternately from memory and imagination, self-taught artist Ira Watkins has been telling stories about the lives and histories of African Americans for more than four decades. Watkins

Sited within the manicured, mawkish snow globe that is Mayfair during Christmastime, Hilary Lloyd’s exhibition proves a welcome antithesis to the surrounding ostentation. The show opens with Moscow,

The Museum of Graffiti, the first of its kind, opens in Miami with a ticktock history of the art form’s early development

The grayscale paintings in Kara Joslyn’s “Tragic Kingdom” portend surreal, vaporous worlds that might have been plucked from the depths of Platonic allegory or Jungian psychology. Spindly saplings,

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) have announced the selection of the third annual NADA acquisition gift for the museum. PAMM associate curator María Elena Ortiz and

The six works on view here, spanning from 1968 to 2019, illustrate Renata Boero’s ongoing, stratified interest in the fields of nature, alchemy, and painting. Although the artist’s practice inevitably

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s work, Comedian, a piece of fruit duct-taped to a wall, has been snapped up at Art Basel in Miami

Sometimes a banana is just a banana. And sometimes, like the one duct-taped to a wall that sold for $120,000 this week, it’s an expensive piece of art.

The questionably genius work by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was being shown by the international gallery Perrotin at Art Basel in Miami when it was sold. One in a series of three, a second version of the piece has also been sold for a similar price, Perrotin told the Guardian.

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Much of Sophie Nys’s work deals with the relationship between domestic and political space; her practice is often associated with a Germanic literary imaginary that, though slightly out-of-date, she

Franklin Williams recently retired from the California College of the Arts, where he taught for more than half a century and earned the honorific in this exhibition's title: “The Inimitable Professor

Meet Fabrizio (Fab) Moretti, visual artist and drummer for The Strokes. Then, meet Fabrizio Moretti, art dealer and proprietor of the London-based Galleria Moretti. At Sotheby’s New York headquarters,

Quoth Milton’s Satan: “The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” Kyung-Me certainly does the latter. In her sequential suite of exquisitely proportioned

There is something peculiar about the beginning of a party, the conspicuous amounts of empty space fostering an ambient anticipation of what will come, who will arrive, and how I, you, or we will respond.

Tufts University in Massachusetts will remove the Sackler name from several buildings on its campus as well as from its programs over the family’s role in the United States opioid crisis. The school

Alina Szapocznikow’s bits of body; Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg’s triggering Claymation; Sonya Kelliher-Combs’s poignant picturing of abuse; and Amy Brener’s urethane goddesses.

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, has received a significant donation of more than one-thousand photographs by artists such as Eugène Atget, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston

Life in the Jewish East End of London, the forgotten history of a 19th century multiracial experiment and a new wave of indigenous art – all in your weekly dispatch

Young Bomberg and the Old Masters
David Bomberg depicted life in the Jewish East End of London in canvases of futuristic daring before 1914 – and drew on Renaissance art to do so, reveals this exhibition.
•National Gallery, London, until 1 March.

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This week in our ongoing series of exclusive Guardian photography we have a shot from a demonstration in Islington in March 1990 by the Guardian photographer Sean Smith

Nearly 30 years ago, anti-poll tax demonstrations swept across Britain, culminating in riots in Trafalgar Square in London on 31 March 1990 where more than 100 people, including police officers, were hurt. The tax was seen as deeply unfair – a flat rate that penalised the poor and favoured the rich. A few weeks earlier, on 13 March, the Guardian photographer Sean Smith covered a protest outside Islington town hall, one of several local demonstrations that took place around the capital, in angry scenes would not look out of place today.

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Architect who was an early proponent of sustainability and social awareness, as well as a master of ingenious design

Founded on ideas about ecology, sustainability and social responsiveness, the buildings of Ted Cullinan, who has died aged 88, prefigured the intensifying debate around the role of architecture in society.

His best-known project was the Downland Gridshell (2002) for the Weald and Downland Living Museum in West Sussex. It was the first timber building of its kind in the UK, and the method of its construction was unorthodox. A diagonal grid of slender oak laths was first laid flat on a scaffolding framework and then literally bent into shape, inch by inch, to create a three-dimensional structure resembling a giant peanut shell, seductive and zoomorphic.

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The English painter achieves precision with geometric lines and shapes that have become synonymous with her style

Op art legend Bridget Riley’s breakthrough work from 1961 uses a staggeringly simple technique: lines of squares whose width contracts. Knowing how this trick is done, though, does not diminish its impact: a painting whose perfectly balanced building blocks seem to suddenly bend and vibrate. One early critic described the experience as “anxiety”.

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This was a year of highs that included political protest in the art world, a historic Whitney Biennial, inspiring monuments and a revamped MoMA.

The landscape architect Arnaud Casaus is creating green spaces wilder and warmer than those found at street level.

David Goldblatt was a white South African photographer. Ernest Cole was one of the country’s first black photojournalists. Each had access to places the other was denied – and together their work captures a divided land

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The Times’s art critics select 26 of their favorite art books and books related to art of the year.

The novelist Rachel Kushner also writes about art. Her collection is a reminder of those essays and features.

The gold-standard shelter magazine runs on a brass-tacks budget and refuses to kowtow to the internet.

The raw image of an ash heap in Sokol Beqiri’s photograph The End of Expressionism: Painted by a Madman, 2001, is clearly visible even from outside the gallery. The work is displayed on a central wall

Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.

Rhett Baruch has transformed his compact Los Angeles apartment into a showroom for the colorful, unconventional items that he sells.

I LANDED IN BANGKOK in the midst of an identity crisis: Having lost my Chinese ID just before the Singapore Biennial, my original itinerary was out the window—I had planned to travel from Shanghai

The Freelands Foundation has selected Hepworth Wakefield as the fourth recipient of its $132,000 Freelands Award, which will support the presentation of a major exhibition of Belfast-born photographer

The Stockholm-based artist Susanna Jablonski’s inaugural show at Obra is titled “Dinkinesh.” It means “You are marvelous” in Amharic, and it is also that language’s name for the famous fossil known in

Bataille thought the freedom to dispose of excess—psychically, materially—was a sign of sovereignty. Ryan Foerster’s multimedia exhibition, “A MECCA BLUR,” presents an alternate vision that seeks to

Solveig Øvstebø, the director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, will join the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo as its new executive director in May 2020. Øvstebø

A TRUE “HOTHOUSE FILM,” Little Joe opens with a fluid overhead shot from a rotating surveillance cam, circling rows of genetically modified plants. They’re the creation of workaholic geneticist Alice

David Wojnarowicz’s canonization cemented his reception as a forever outcast, the self-proclaimed Rimbaud of a quickly gentrifying New York. The poet, painter, photographer, activist, and filmmaker’s

Dutch choreographer Hans van Manen and his husband, Henk van Dijk, have gifted the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam twenty-four works by the late American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989). Among

As nationwide protests sweep France, several cultural institutions have temporarily shuttered. Unions representing the transportation sector called for workers to stage a mass walkout today to protest

SOMEHOW, AT THE BEGINNING OF AUGUST 1988, I ended up in the Catskills with Nancy Graves and my husband, Paul Greengard, hell-bent on trying out our riding talents on Gillian Jagger’s horses. We were

The National Gallery of Canada has named Hamilton Artists Inc. in Ontario the first recipient of its new biennial Lacey Prize, which was launched by John Lacey in partnership with the gallery earlier

These midsize institutions, all in Midtown, are close enough for a single afternoon’s tour (and with enough time in there for a bite).

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) announced today that Hesse McGraw has been named the institution’s tenth director. McGraw will oversee all aspects of the noncollecting museum’s artistic and

My colleague and friend Michael West, who has died aged 80, had a long and distinguished career in architecture and planning. After early years in private practice, in 1970 he was appointed director of the Central London Planning Conference, which co-ordinated planning throughout the central London boroughs, and in 1975 became borough planner of Southwark.

He commuted by train daily from Ipswich, Suffolk, to Liverpool Street, and from there charged south to his office on Peckham Road on a folding bicycle, dressed in a long leather overcoat and a sailor’s cap in the winter, with plastic bags over his shoes when it was particularly wet.

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The exhibit The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture, currently on display at Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, features the perspectives of women as both subject and photographer. The show, which spans the beginnings of photography in the colonial period to the present day, draws from The Walther Collection and features work by Zanele Muholi, SJ Moodley, JD ‘Okhai Ojeikere and Lebohang Kganye

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Photographer and lifelong Tottenham Hotspur fan Martin Andersen has turned his camera on fellow fans to create an intimate and often visceral collection of images taken at home, away, and across Europe from
2013 until the last game played at White Hart Lane in 2017. Interview by Felix Petty

My first game at White Hart Lane was Tottenham v Wimbledon on Saturday 10 November 1990. We won the game 4–2. I sat in Park Lane watching a Spurs side featuring Gazza, Lineker, Mabbutt, Walsh … But my love for Tottenham started long before that. We all have our stories as to why we support the club. Mine might be a little different to most, having grown up in Denmark.

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‘The story of the American cowboy is so white, which is frustrating for black riders – right after the civil war, more than a quarter of cowboys were African American’

I shot this on a trail ride with the Delta Hill Riders in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. The gentleman in the foreground, Joe Wrenn, organises this group ride every fall in the hilly terrain to the north of the Mississippi delta. I’ve been going for a few years.

Trail rides are universal in the American cowboy tradition. In other states you might find thousands of people on a single ride. Here there were about 100 people, many riding, and others, who you can’t see in the photo, on dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles.

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Light sculptures glow in the dark at the venue

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British architect and veteran museum director Stephen Garrett, who became the first to lead the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu after the death of founder J. Paul Getty in