Artist lands two big sales at Art Basel after record-breaking auction result

This is what caught our eye

The businessman, who just opened an art space on an island in the Mediterranean, on Alice in Wonderland and hanging out at Warhol's Factory

Curious new relationships between art and capital are being enabled by cryptofinance, which places “monetary value” at the heart of the creative process

From Gursky to Barney, our pick of five plastic-related works at the fair

The Somali-Australian artist Hamishi Farah is showing the work in Basel at the Liste fair

The Lebanese-born artist and writer, who has a solo show at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, discusses her passion for the Swiss abstract artist.

A taster of the artist’s latest project is on show at Art Basel ahead of its unveiling at Tate Modern in London

Artist to continue project reconstructing thousands of lost and destroyed Iraqi artefacts

How soon is too soon? Private collectors are selling off works as little as a few weeks after lending them to high-profile shows

Project aims to produce affordable, off-grid tools

Art Basel’s global director on collector behaviour, auction price databases and the complexity of the art market

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “will be acquiring” a series documenting a Modernist high-rise apartment block in Johannesburg

Parcours, the Art Basel section for public art projects, is "radically different" from previous editions, says its curator Samuel Leuenberger

The US pioneer of digital art discusses her passion for cutting-edge biology and its influence on her new multimedia exhibition, Anti-Bodies

Hauser & Wirth will host concurrent exhibitions of the Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi this autumn in Zurich, London and Hong Kong

The Basel-based collector Ulla Dreyfus-Best on her "Wunderkammer", which mixes 11th-century Italian bronzes with pieces by Jeff Koons

Riga, Bangkok, São Paulo—every modern city wants a biennial. But is this good for contemporary art? Leading curators join the hot debate

Reconstruction at heart of new research centre preserves spirit of artist’s cluttered creative space

“The personal is political—this is a clear and present undercurrent,” says Volta artistic director Amanda Coulson

This will be the first time a major Chinese gallery has opened a space in Europe