The crypto mogul Justin Sun—who famously bought Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2m banana work and ate it—has also donated $7.8m to the government relief fund

The 18-karat gold sculpture, another edition of which was used by thousands at the Guggenheim Museum, returns to the spotlight at Sotheby's

The 21st edition of Bogotá’s marquee art fair opened alongside the city’s new contemporary art biennial, eliciting healthy sales in the four- and five-figure range

Art-eating crypto mogul is back in the news

Now in its third decade, the satellite fair has stayed true to its mission of showcasing young artists from often overlooked regions

Maurizio Cattelan sheds light on his famous golden toilet and that duct-taped banana

In a countersuit stand-off, the two parties are broadening the scope of their allegations beyond the disputed sculpture

Animals abound in immersive exhibitions ruminating on the idea of utopia

Geffen's countersuit comes two months after Sun, the crypto investor and buyer of Cattelan's Comedian, sued claiming ownership of the sculpture Le Nez

The art world provocateur's latest works have been unveiled at Gagosian gallery, London

Denied recognition and even credit for their work until recent times, Japan’s women photographers are challenging and subverting traditional assumptions about the female body

The student, who was visiting a major Cattelan exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, taped the empty banana peel back to the wall

Kris Jenner and Chris Pratt also featured in the Ray-Ban glasses promo

Despite Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian selling for a staggering $6.2m, The Now and contemporary auctions in New York made 63% less than last year

Creating the ultimate art shock takes more than sticking a banana to the wall

The artist is debuting a new work, intended as a statement on gun violence, at Gagosian’s stand

The private members' club's collection includes works by Christina Quarles and Isaac Julien

Plus basketball is slam dunk for art crowds and much more

The crypto entrepreneur spoke to The Art Newspaper about his journey into collecting, how he feels technology is transforming the art market, and more

Joe Morford claims that the viral Comedian piece infringes copyright on his own duct tape work Banana & Orange

The British artist selected Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous conceptual piece to appear digitally in schools across the next two years

Everything you need to know about the artist behind the infamous banana. Plus, we talk to UK comedians Rob Auton, Jenny Eclair and Annie McGrath about the charity exhibition Art is the Best Medicine. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

The artist behind 2019's viral banana installation talks to us about his newest pigeon sculptures at Miami, what he hopes his art communicates to audiences, and why it was important for him to create a 9/11 memorial

The judge dismissed a suit brought by artist Joe Morford claiming he had made the original taped-banana work in 2001

Almost 1,000 people attended banana-eating demonstration outside Warsaw’s National Museum yesterday

The piece of fruit taped to a wall at Art Basel in Miami Beach "offers insight into how we assign worth", Perrotin gallery says

The lasting ap-peel of Cattelan’s infamous conceptual work seems confirmed

"Comedian" (2019) is one of the most viral (and controversial) works of art of the past decade; Sotheby's is betting it has not lost its a-peel

Justin Sun, who purchased the work just last week, also pledged to buy 100,000 bananas from the vendor who originally sold the fruit for $0.25

The buyer, the collector and crypto investor Justin Sun, immediately vowed to eat the banana

Curator Francesco Bonami has created his own version for the British artist as a consolation prize

Plus, Dante's divine inspiration and plans for a “new hybrid work, life and art centre” in Brussels

Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution

At last November's evening auctions in New York, eyes were on a $6.2m banana, but overall sales were down 41% on the previous year

From Maurizio Cattelan’s $120k banana to dedicated viral accounts, here are the images that tickled us this year

Sun claims he is the rightful owner of Le Nez, which is purportedly now in Geffen’s possession in New York

French president Emmanuel Macron was apparently not amused by artwork depicting him beheaded

This unlikely grouping is part of an astonishing story involving New York’s Guggenheim Museum

Guests at the packed exhibition launch included Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant and fashion icon Pam Hogg

This updated art market manual by Mary Rozell merits a place on any bookshelf

Guests were fed pork, poblano peppers and pumpkin soup at the Glenstone Museum

Exploring this week’s New York auctions, which included Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous fruit, plus a tribute to the late German-British artist Auerbach and a chat with Sobekwa about a work from his powerful series, on view at the UK’s Sainsbury Centre

Land art piece will remain on view for two years

A show at the Minneapolis Institute of Art displays more than 120 Japanese textiles made from the stuff of nature

The artist's latest work, on show at Gagosian, was created with the help of a Brooklyn gun range

An exhibition open to the public in London's Piccadilly will bring together the art from top UK artists before the works go under the hammer at Christie's

At Gagosian, he trains his weapon of social satire on violence as a source of wealth

Here are our top tips to help you gain—and keep—new followers in the new year

The exhibition at the Frist Art Museum includes works by the likes of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin

The survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will shed light on Neel’s recurring subjects, from family members and lovers to the bohemians and activists she collaborated with

A blow-by-blow account of the Hong Kong digital viewing rooms that launched this morning

Celebrate Women’s History Month through art, from feminism solving an ancient riddle in Brooklyn to Zoe Leonard's retrospective at the Whitney

All you ever wanted to know about art (if you are little), from a cat that wanders round Tate Modern at night to why Louise Bourgeois made giant spiders—selected by The Art Newspaper's Anna Brady

Demands are growing on the Caribbean island to address the impact of its history of slavery

The $29.2m painting sold at Sotheby's last night in a live-streamed contemporary art sale that took place in Hong Kong as Christie's held its marquee sale in New York

The most valuable lot of the week is a record-breaking Magritte with a third-party guarantee, but the most talked-about is a conceptual still life by Maurizio Cattelan

We look back at the stories that have overturned the art world order this year

In the first round of a lengthy legal battle, an Italian court has ruled in favour of a right-wing Catholic organisation which the Ministry of Culture is trying to oust from a historic abbey

As the World Cup 2018 kicks off in Russia, Eddy Frankel picks some of the most striking pieces by contemporary artists

From 20th century Italian masterworks at the Center for Italian Modern Art to Ashley Bickerton’s oceanic sculptures at Lehmann Maupin

Art Basel Miami Beach '04 fair report

Idea for the project was considered "too emotionally fraught" for New York by Guggenheim chief curator

From Lucian Freud's stunning self-portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts to King Tut's treasures at the Saatchi Gallery

The London institution is the third stop for the four-venue touring exhibition of the late American artist

A glut of lawsuits often signals a market in trouble. Three art collectors are suing to recover their losses, but are they justified?

The conversations are better, the public is enthusiastic, and there is enough, but not too much art—and it’s good

From Ruth Asawa's delicate structures to a revelatory show of Picasso's paper works

From Elizabeth Peyton's historically contextualised portraits to a jarring installation on queer existence

Last month’s edition was the last for Rita Aoun, who has made the event a popular annual fixture since its first appearance in 2008

The mega-fair will have slightly fewer exhibitors than it did in 2022

The collector and gallerist explains why he moved his central Hong Kong gallery and is parting ways with some of his favourite works at Sotheby's this week

Stunt suspicions swirl after Sotheby’s auction sees 2009 work by street artist sell for far more than its £2m high estimate

Museum's model, giving access to works not on display, has been replicated throughout the world

On Saturday 14 May, the focus of the event shifts south of the river. Our critic Louisa Buck picks out the shows you should visit

What galleries, collectors and artists can do to help reduce the carbon footprint of buying art

Nicole Eisenman, Jean-Michel Basquiat and a dozen Italians help weather the Brexit storm

Swinging in Prouvé's prototype, a Guggenheim with legs, and so much more

From David Bowie in Brooklyn to Zoe Leonard at the Whitney

From satirical prostitute advertisements to a baby's beating heart—the must see shows from London's coolest gallery sharing initiative

However, despite assistance from big names, it was emerging artists who were the real stars of the show

The Colombian sculptor finds inspiration in grief and channels it into new inventions

Auction house fields a steady contemporary evening sale in London

The artist’s show includes a menagerie of recently gifted sketches, large-scale watercolours and selections from the permanent collection

The Colchester art gallery celebrates its tenth anniversary this year

For each work sold, 15% will go to a charity or institution of the artist’s choice—but will the new sales format ruffle dealers’ feathers?

The new Conservative government has so far kept quiet about its plans for the arts but the signs point to a fractious battle for resources between national and local institutions

Paul Allen’s estate has pledged proceeds of its $1.6bn Christie’s sale to unnamed philanthropic causes, while FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried vaguely promised to give away his fortune

Commercial representation is growing for leading women who launched and sustained careers before the art market cared

Belafonte cited Pablo Picasso and his artist friend Charles White among the visual and performing artists whose support of social justice movements inspired his activism

From concert designer to sell-out artist, we talk to Mike Winkelmann about making millions and selling with Christie's

A look at the top institutions due to launch worldwide in the coming year