The Chicago-based painter is one of 11 children, born and raised in Macon, Mississippi, at a rural address known simply as Route One, Box Two

Feminists take that stage for the Sackler Center First Award at the Brooklyn Museum

Some art is Made to Be Destroyed

“The Brooklyn Museum is hustling to become the greatest, new, 200-year-old discovery on the planet,” said the museum’s director Anne Pasternak

The Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton has his first US survey at the Flag Art Foundation

Abramovic’s show in 2020 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts will mark the first time a woman has been the subject of a retrospective at the prestigious institution

Teenagers in California’s Coachella Valley have found a creative way of “engaging” with the art on view at Desert X

Rarely is an instrumental concert as visually exciting as it is aurally, but that was the case at the Darmstadt Ensemble’s quirky recent performance

For nearly half a century, Jacob El Hanani has been composing obsessively detailed drawings using a Rapidograph pen, typically employed by architects

The conceptual artist Aaron Flint Jamison caused a stir last month when he decided that for his solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery he would show only works in the gallery’s storage

Vittorio Scarpati made a series of bold drawings in a New York hospital before he died of Aids, which also claimed the life of his wife, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller. Teeming with “piles of angels”, Scarpati’s drawings are being shown for the first time in 25 years in London this month

Any remaining art and the profits from works sold to be turned over to the artist’s young children, court rules

Shows in Prague and Chicago expose the fallout of the world's worst nuclear accident

The Armory Show and New York’s satellite fairs prove US market is holding up

Big-name artists and institutions are using Kickstarter to fund their projects

From Joana Vasconcelos' tampon chandelier at Venice to Elmgreen & Dragset's wishing well in Berlin, exhibitions do not just provide learning experiences for audiences

Zwirner and Gagosian galleries are embroiled in the feud between the Austrian artist’s archive and foundation in the wake of his deathbed decision

Memories of Warhol, Rauschenberg and Jack Goldstein, among others, inspire exhibition

As shows of his work open at opposite ends of the US, the nomadic Korean-born artist explains how his coloured cloth installations reflect his transient existence

As the race to the White House heats up, we look at the unlikely advisers that back the leading contenders