Jeff Koons

At Villa Carmignac, Pourquerolles, the pioneering underwater photographer Jean Painlevé acts as a guiding spirit for a group exhibition that depicts the beguiling strangeness of aquatic life

Beneath the slick surface appearance of the National Gallery of Victoria’s blockbuster exhibition is a timid exploration of Australia’s colonial legacy

In further news: Jeff Koons’ controversial sculpture unveiled in Paris; contract agreed between New Museum management and employees’ union 

At Museo Jumex, Mexico City, the father of the readymade gets overshadowed by bluster

In further news: Venice introduces tourist tax ahead of biennale; Jeff Koons embraces automation

‘Trawling the junkyard landscapes that surround us and hauling things into the museum, these artists offer a way out of our materially saturated culture’

In further news: fears grow over ‘Salvator Mundi’; Dutch government face Nazi-art lawsuit; heritage sites lost in Yemen war

The US artist has been told to pay €135,000 after copying a 1985 advertising campaign by the French fashion label

Nathaniel Kahn’s new HBO film works on the assumption that money and power is all anyone in the art world is interested in

In further news: Tate remembers London’s forgotten women heroes; Pop artist Mel Ramos dies aged 83

In further news: Pro-refugee obelisk to stay in Kassel, Natural History Museum under fire over Saudi event

In further news: San Francisco decrees 30 percent of public art must depict women; Dutch museums find Nazi-looted art

The American artist is accused of plagiarizing an advertising campaign for his USD$3.7M Fait d’Hiver sculpture

Serpentine swimmers complain about Christo’s floating pyramid; and Hermitage’s psychic cat is a World Cup oracle: the latest in art world silliness

In further news: po-mo architecture in the UK gets heritage status; Kassel to buy Olu Oguibe’s monument to refugees

French Ministry of Culture says that it won't locate the controversial memorial to the city’s terror victims opposite the Palais de Tokyo

The rapper and artist have thoughts about originality in art; Melania Trump tries graphic design – all the latest art world nonsense

‘They asked for this lawsuit on a silver platter’ said collector Steven Tananbaum’s counsel, alleging a Ponzi-like scheme

In further news: art dealer and Warhol friend killed in Trump Tower fire; UK arts organizations’s gender pay gap revealed; Pussy Riot sell activist clothing

In further news: French artists and curators rally behind Jeff Koons; Tania Bruguera named for next Turbine Hall commission