Art
Sotheby’s pays top dollar for the art world’s best address book
Auction house buys art advisers in surprise $85m deal
Why is the art market like a carousel?
Academic Olav Velthuis says growing a scene is “hard and tedious; but once it gets going it gets easier”
After stint in the doldrums, India Art Fair shows signs of picking up
Event has been repositioned as “the” place to see South Asian art
The Buck Stopped Here: everything is rosy in the Royal Academy garden but it looks like it could be a nuclear summer
The Buck Stopped Here: set sail from London to Bristol for this week’s top shows including Elizabeth Peyton and John Akomfrah
Ai Weiwei cancels two shows in Denmark in protest over new asylum seeker law
Danish parliament has approved plans to allow police to seize cash and valuables from refugees entering the country
Art world heads back to school as Frieze Academy launches
Lectures and courses are designed to further careers of arts professionals
Painting by Rembrandt’s favourite pupil given UK export bar
Government hopes a public collection can match £5.2m asking price for Ferdinand Bol’s Portrait of a Boy
Top Sydney gallerist launches blistering attack on the art world
Evan Hughes, son of founder Ray, is closing the Hughes Gallery and running for office
Lebanese authorities backtrack over high-profile curator's passport renewal
Christine Tohmé says her application was suspended because of ties to culture sector
How art is keeping alive the memory of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
Five years after the uprisings in Cairo, the spirit of the protests lives on in cultural projects
Elmgreen & Dragset create a fictional art fair in Beijing
The Well Fair sees artist duo create a “reversed power relationship”
Leila Alaoui, a talent cut short by terrorists in Burkina Faso
33-year-old's works were on show at Maison européenne de la Photographie shortly before she was killed
Bristol museum sheds light on assisted dying
Installation accompanies death objects exhibition
Palestinian Museum to open in May
Inaugural show will focus on the objects that individual Palestinians would never part with
Gurlitt task force wraps up with ‘meager’ results
162 works suspected to be Nazi loot, but just five have been identified as definite plunder
National Trust to restore fire-devastated Clandon Park
Original owners say shell should be demolished after 95% of the English Palladian mansion’s interior was destroyed
Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital
Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic
Artcurial charity auction cancelled after work showing Palestinian activist is pulled
French press partners pull out of sale “in the name of freedom of expression” following lobbying from Israeli embassy
London’s emerging galleries host exhibitors from abroad
Condo event offers international colleagues an alternative to expensive art fairs
Tate Modern names Frances Morris as new director
Chris Dercon to depart after opening of new extension
Lego changes policy after Ai Weiwei backlash
Chinese artist describes U-turn as “victory for freedom of speech”