Almost $2.5bn was spent on art in just six evening auctions last month, as the market is pushed to new levels for trophy works

Artist’s grandson welcomes ‘long overdue’ retrospective at the Pushkin featuring more than 50 works

The inaugural exhibition at the new $25m arts complex in northern England focuses on affairs of the heart

The new president of the Paris museum was in China last week to discuss joint projects with Chinese officials

Most works at Christie’s auction on Wednesday were guaranteed to sell including Lucian Freud's reclining nude, which fetched an ample price

Belgian Conceptual artist subject of exhibitions in Paris and Eindhoven

Stony Island Arts Bank will launch during the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial

Sotheby’s totalled $379.7m for its contemporary art auction on Tuesday evening, while Christie's raised $705.9m the night before

Putting on an event of this size is an expensive business—and increasingly it is dealers, collectors and foundations that are stumping up

Shows worth checking out beyond the Arsenale and Giardini<br>

Curator says the show is made in response to the “manifest impossibility of making art in the country”

The historically-conflicting nations come together for the first time in this highly-anticipated exhibition

A guide to some of the most interesting works on view in the exhibition

The Art Newspaper team guide to some of the best things to see at this year's Venice Biennale

National heritage office says the Prado should hand over four paintings for new Royal Collections museum

Turin-style reforms could take place across Italy as soon as a dozen new directors are appointed

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Franklin Sirmans, Michael Elmgreen, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and others on the artists, exhibitions and events to put on your to-do list

Matching the main exhibition’s political outlook, a host of pavilions across Venice are addressing their countries’ troubled past and present

The move to the Tour &amp; Taxis site next year coincides with the launch of the Independent fair in the burgeoning contemporary art hub

The Armenian pavilion will include four works by Sarkis, who is also representing Turkey at the event

Ruling in France over work by Courbet may have influenced change in “community standards”

The international conference on cultural developments comes to Asia