The 11 June protests, the largest seen on the island in 30 years, were sparked by years of economic hardship and a lack of government support for its people

The Ionides Scarab sold for $250,000 in April—but it may not have been the auction house’s, nor the consigner’s, right to sell the object in the US

From the Met’s survey of women photographers to Wong Ping’s dark films at the New Museum

"We are trying to build a programme that will be very female and queer oriented... that might be difficult for a Mexican audience, but it has to happen,” founder says

Our pick of the works coming up for sale in London and Los Angeles

The 27N member's colleagues believe he may have been tried in absentia for subverting the Cuban government.

From Huguette Caland at The Drawing Center to the last week to visit the Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

The painting was found in an Ontario thrift shop and purchased for just five Canadian dollars

Auction house chose to hold its 20th century and contemporary art evening sale in New York during what is traditionally the London season due to "detonated" calendar

Both Bryan Barcena and Stephanie Dudzinski have worked with major museums and galleries in the city

Our pick of the best objects up for sale in London and New York

Galleries and auction houses continue to set up shop with niche exhibitions where their clients spend their vacations

From Cézanne's drawings at MoMA to Takashi Murakami curating Outsider art

The San Isidro Movement founder was forcibly taken to a Havana hospital in early May eight days into a hunger strike protesting the government's clampdown on artist's rights

John Sims's current exhibition confronts the symbols of white supremacy and visual terrorism

The work invites members of the public to bring home and plant one of 439 small clay spheres, each with seeds inside

The inaugural program will feature immersive experiences by Es Devlin, teamLab, James Turrell

The cancellation of the Dutch art fair, scheduled for this September, casts some doubt on whether Art Basel will go ahead as planned just a fortnight later

Instead of the routine amenities offered by most residential apartment buildings, Zhukova’s buildings will feature artist studios, workshops and masterclasses

The space will open in the Neri & Hu designed Kimpton Hotel Da An in Taiwan

The evening of sales in New York totalled $439.6m, with Basquiat's Versus Medici topping the contemporary art offering at $50.8m and a new record for Leonor Fini

Our pick of the best objects up for sale in New York, Dallas and Paris

Knotted Ties exhibition features textile works by female artists from Africa and the diaspora

The environmentally conscious project considers broken and violated social contracts in the artists space and in society as a whole

Exhibitors praised Frieze for seamlessness of install and timed entry gave galleries and guests more time than usual for art chat, making deals and catching up

Otero Alcántara’s hunger strike and calls for free speech and artistic freedom in Cuba has drawn international attention

Denis Gardarin has joined as US director and will oversee the South Africa- and London-based gallery's presence at Frieze New York this week as travel restrictions persist

Scaled-back event will relocate from far-flung Randall's Island to The Shed in Manhattan

In a long-running legal battle, the Shchukin Gallery seeks the return of five paintings worth $63m that the gallery says were taken by a Russian financier

The current chief, Edward Dolman, will shift in September to a new role as executive chairman of Phillips’ holding company