Meanwhile, the art world gets back to bare essentials as Hodgkin has an unusual request for the director of the ICA while Tate director’s wife is defrocked

We can reveal that the Creed’s commission for the Duveen Galleries, to be unveiled next month, is likely to startle visitors

Meanwhile, Mark McGowan gets a helping hand on his commute while Richard Wentworth loses his marbles

On the eve of a major show at Tate Britain, we talk to the artist about his life and work in the Caribbean

“In a public space people should feel better after looking at the art”

This year the budget was £150,000, spent on just four pieces

Grayson Perry defrocked

Meanwhile, Grayson Perry displays his (disco) balls

Prices start at $6 for a face towel

After 25 years, the Irish artist is still going strong, subjecting his paintings to “tough love” and steering away from nostalgia

The Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund's budget of £150,000 saw 28 works enter the collection

The new building's first show is of work by Dieter Roth and Martin Kippenberger

The Tate Triennial might be a critical damp squib, but the veteran artist Cerith Wyn Evans made sure the opening went with a bang

Sex, art and turmoil, revealing very little

Tino Sehgal refuses to document his work, rejects written contracts, and only takes cash

Also featuring parenting tips from Emin and Tate's spiritually uplifting cabaret

Abts’ small, deeply layered canvases exert a quiet power

This year's haul included video, installations, and photos but no paintings

Saatchi and Branson among first to race round fair

An overview of his career and a major new work

On the eve of the Chapmans’ first commercial show in three years, Jake Chapman talks to The Art Newspaper

On the eve of the Chapmans’ first commercial show in three years, Jake Chapman talks to The Art Newspaper

Published to accompany his show of paintings at Gagosian in New York, it promises much but delivers little

After her achievements in New York, British painter Cecily Brown is having her first solo show in the UK

At the climax of McCarthy's career, the cowboy and the pirate are brought together with pleasing dissonance

A typo on their beer bottle turns it into an instant collectors’ classic

Richard Wentworth’s mid-career survey at Tate Liverpool is more of a remix than a retrospective

In the space of just a year, a former US Drug Enforcement Warehouse has been expanded to 40,000 square feet and now includes 18 new galleries, a conservation laboratory, a library and a sculpture garden

Although only the second edition of this contemporary fair in a tent, global collectors flocked to it and sales were frantic