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If you pop along to the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, why not drop in on an intriguing group exhibition at Annex East located on the doorstep of the Games in Hutchins Close (until 23 August). Five young London-based contemporary galleries...

The Chinese government plans to turn Beijing into a key art hub in Asia by building an 83,000 sq. m freeport next to the Beijing Capital International Airport scheduled for completion late 2013. Officials hope that the vast storage facility, which...

Snorkeling off the Italian island of Elba; a mother’s tears as her son departs for university; the trauma behind erasing a tattoo: these are some of the tales told by participants in Tino Sehgal’s commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London....

The Austrian sculptor Franz West died in Vienna on Wednesday after a long illness, aged 65. Known for his large-scale, oddly-shaped works often made from paper-mache, plaster and wire, West’s monumental looping sculptures The Ego and the Id...

We spoke to Tracey Emin at Art Basel in June, prior to her “surreal” Olympic-torch relay experience, about her solo show in Margate and working with Louise Bourgeois....

We spoke to Tracey Emin at Art Basel in June, prior to her “surreal” Olympic-torch relay experience, about her solo show in Margate and working with Louise Bourgeois....

The Chinese government plans to turn Beijing into a key art hub in Asia by building an 83,000 sq. m freeport next to the Beijing Capital International Airport scheduled for completion late 2013. Officials hope that the vast storage facility, which...

Anyone listened to the 1963 song “Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa” lately? Did you laugh? So why did it make us feel pleasantly weepy then? How long can we understand a work of art in the terms of its own time? Fifty years? Twenty? Probably not more...

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, has pulled out of a Richard Hamilton retrospective, after the abrupt departure of its long-standing chief curator, Paul Schimmel at the end of June. Schimmel is the co-curator of the Hamilton...

An ancient Roman alabaster sarcophagus, which was stolen more than 20 years ago from a church south of Rome, was returned to Italy on 18 July. It came from the London-based collection of an unnamed antiquities, flown back to Rome on a cargo flight...

An ancient Roman alabaster sarcophagus, which was stolen more than 20 years ago from a church south of Rome, was returned to Italy on 18 July. It came from the London-based collection of an unnamed antiquities, flown back to Rome on a cargo flight...

Anyone who visited the impressive John Chamberlain retrospective at the Guggenheim earlier this year may want to take a trip out to the Hamptons this week, where a documentary of the artist made by his step-daughter, the filmmaker Alexandra...

To supplement our Art Basel team in Basel, we are looking for an Exhibitor & Projects Manager (m/f) (100%)

aged between 26-45, to start work immediately.

Your challenges:

- Advising and looking after...

Jack Shainman gallery in New York appears to have hit upon a canny marketing ploy for the exhibition "Hi! Jack" (2 August-1 September). An e-mail addressed to Shainman informs the genial Manhattan gallerist that his art handlers have organised a...

It may traditionally be a quiet season for the art market but this summer auction houses in London are putting on a show. Bonhams staged “The Olympic Games Sale” on Wednesday 25 July. Among lots sold was the Henry Robert “Bobby” Pearce rowing...

A team of researchers and archaeologists from the Parco Archeologico di Selinunte, near Trapani in western Sicily, and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (NYU), have discovered what they believe to be the oldest temple structure on...

Qatar is funding a £8.7m project at London's British Library to make around 500,000 pages available online from the archives of the East India Company and the India Office in its collection, and a further 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic...

A fast paced New York Contemporary Art Gallery seeks a candidate who must be efficient with Microsoft Excel, Word, and QuickBooks programs. A financial background and a strong attention to detail is required and previous art gallery and Artbase /...

Alison Klayman’s “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry” goes on general release in July in the US, having played the festival circuit to great acclaim. It’s a project born from a lucky break, after Klayman was hired to make a promotional film for a gallery show...

Herbert Vogel, a former postal worker and art collector extraordinaire, died aged 89 on 22 July. Herbert and his wife, Dorothy, collected more than 2,500 works of minimalist and conceptual art by artists including Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Carl...