Tate Modern to play host to a working ceramics factory
Visitors can volunteer in factory, featuring eight tonnes of clay, a 30-metre production line and more than 2,000 fired objects
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Jeremy Deller behind ‘strong and stable my arse’ posters in London
Turner prize-winning artist says he hopes posters are self-explanatory – especially after Theresa May’s social care U-turn
Fourth plinth shortlist includes winged bull and giant cream blob
Models of five nominated artworks for Trafalgar Square installation go on display at National Gallery in London
Tate to name Maria Balshaw as new director to succeed Serota
Driving force behind Manchester’s cultural renaissance to take over one of most powerful jobs in UK arts
Sandy Nairne portrait at NPG is by American artist Chuck Close
Portrait of former director of National Portrait Gallery will be first big work by Close to enter public collection in UK
Helen Marten wins Turner prize, securing second award in a month
Chair of judges praises 31-year-old artist, who recently won Hepworth prize, for baffling sculptural work which ‘reflects the condition of the world’
Frieze London 2016 to feature Julie Verhoeven lavatory intervention
Political work on toilet attendants will be at fair alongside seminal 90s art from Wolfgang Tillmans and Richard Billingham
South Africa’s golden rhino to star in British Museum exhibition
Figures and objects from Mapungubwe, site of the first kingdom in southern Africa, are part of an exploration of 100,000 years of art
Feminist art activists the Guerrilla Girls get first dedicated UK show
Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned the anonymous group to scrutinise gender diversity at hundreds of European galleries
David Hockney show will be one of Tate Britain’s biggest ever
Extensive retrospective in 2017 will cover six decades of artist’s work from early homoerotic paintings to recent LA pieces
US pop artist Ed Ruscha donates collection of prints to Tate
Tate director Nicholas Serota calls 18 print editions and impression of all future prints a ‘wonderful Christmas present’ to nation
Tate Modern highlights pop art by women ignored by sexist establishment
Many of the works overlooked in the 1960s and 70s will be seen in public for the first time when they go on display in London
REVIEW: Chocolate with your Bacon? Tate Britain offers feast for the senses
London gallery opens ‘sensorium’ to explore whether taste, touch, smell and sound change the way people experience art
Funding cuts could spell end of free museums and galleries
Museums Association warns that entrance fees could be introduced as York Art Gallery considers £7.50 charge when it reopens after £8m redevelopment
Royal Academy turns to crowdfunding to bring Ai Weiwei’s trees to London
RA hopes to raise £100,000 through Kickstarter for installation made by artist from trees that have died in mountains of southern China
Gustav Klimt piece sells for almost £25m at Sotheby’s
Portrait of Gertrud Loew was subject of a 15-minute bidding war at the London auctioneers, as star lot by Kazimir Malevich went for £21.4m
Pivotal Tracey Emin art installation Exorcism goes on sale for £600,000
Collection of works, produced naked in a gallery in 1996 as a performance, also comes with CDs, magazines and a radio
Georgia O’Keeffe flower painting sells for record-breaking $44.4m
Final bid for Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 more than doubles the previous highest price paid for a work of art by a woman
Two studies of family go head to head for BP Portrait award
Only two works out of 1,969 have been shortlisted for the prestigious annual award judged at the National Portrait Gallery
Portrait of Francis Bacon’s violent lover to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
Francis Bacon’s powerful painting of Peter Lacy just months after his death will go up for auction on May 14
Madonna sells Fernand Léger painting to raise money for girls’ education
Sotheby’s announces auction of Cubist work to support projects in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Royal Academy stages retrospective of neglected US artist George Bellows
Man praised as one of greatest American painters was more famous than friend Edward Hopper during his life
Kurt Schwitters: Tate retrospective aims to explode myths about Dadaist
Tate Britain show reveals unknown figurative side to revered German modernist who has influenced generations of artists
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Burroughs triptych to be sold at London auction
Work by US artist, who died aged 27 in 1988, is tribute to his favourite writer and is valued at between £4.25m and £6.25m