Palermo’s patched-up palazzos make the city the perfect backdrop to the stirring artwork on display at Manifesta, the roving biennale.

Carsten Höller’s dream works, a Danish art fair to watch and Madrid reclaims its airwaves.

With its bustling gallery scene and artist-friendly lifestyle, Cape Town is the epicentre of new South African art.

Ahead of unveiling a new artwork for Photo London, the artist – and world’s finest set designer – Es Devlin talks inspiration, hating doors and dreaming of a world in miniature.

Pop-up gallery Black Box Projects is heading to Photo London. Meet the team and, opposite, see what other galleries have planned.

With its scene buoyed by the Dhaka Art Summit, artists and architects are banging the drum for Bangladeshi art.

A group of Austrian philanthropists are working to shine a spotlight on their country’s artists.

The Hayward Gallery’s revamp has breathed a ray of sunlight into a Brutalist classic.

From rarities of the Flemish Renaissance to a resurgent New York market, we mark your diary with the key things to buy and see.

There’s still lots of money to be made in the Hong Kong art market. And the big players are coming to town.

Artist Matthew Day Jackson’s work is influenced by everything from terrorism to the space race. Following a period of intense creative activity Jackson’s new still-life work has come to focus on empires, tackling issues…

In this CGI era when craft means corralling pixels, we take a trip to a traditional animation studio in Tokyo to marvel at mastering the miniature. Among the models and drying paint we find that old-fashioned artworking is…

Digital archives are no replacement for the real thing – it’s only in a private visit to a secret hoard that history, humanity and passion are let loose to inspire, inform and entertain again.

Robert Bound reporting from Abu Dhabi: Now that the celebratory bunting has been taken down and the much-hyped Louvre Abu Dhabi is finally open for business, what does the future hold? Is it an oasis of culture in a desert…