Doha-based artist Wael Shawky has been named Artistic Director of the inaugural Art Basel Qatar.

The art fair will open to VIPS in Doha on February 3 and 4 before running to February 7 across two main venues – M7 and the Doha Design District – as well as public sites in the city's creative quarter.

A spokesman for the fair said the theme of the show would be "becoming" which they described as "a meditation on humanity’s ongoing transformation and the evolving systems that shape how we live, believe, and create meaning".

Shawky represented Egypt at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and has had solo shows at London's Tate Modern and the Serpentine Gallery as well as MoMA PS1 in New York.

The Qatar show is the latest outpost of the fair which has outgrown its Swiss origins and now includes events in Paris, Miami Beach and Hong Kong.

A vast archive built up by artist, collector and curator Richard Demarco will go on show in a Polish museum after he failed to find it a permanent home in his native Scotland.

The 95-year-old from Edinburgh is credited with bringing names including Joseph Beuys and Marina Abramovic to Scotland for the first time.

His archive, made up of around 4,500 paintings and drawings, 1 million photographs and books, posters and letters is going to the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz - a city that made him an honorary citizen in 2008 in recognition of his support for Polish culture.

What you need to spend if you want to buy Lorna Simpson's former Brooklyn studio. The 3,293-square-foot building was designed by British architect David Adjaye for Simpson and her then husband and fellow artist James Casebere and comes complete with a Japanese style walled garden.

US artist Wayne Thiebaud is getting his first-ever UK museum show at the Courtauld Gallery in London.

The Californian, who died in 2021, made his name painting the everyday delights of American life during the 1960s boom from hot dogs to pinball machines and slices of cherry pie.

The show includes work never seen outside the US as well as loans from New York's Whitney Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life is sponsored by US businessman and collector Ken Griffin’s philanthropic organization Griffin Catalyst and runs October 10 to January 18.

Yinka Ilori has taken over one of Helsinki's public squares on the roof of the Amos Rex art museum and transformed it into a giant playground.

Inspired by his own childhood experience of London's playgrounds, he has set up a basketball court, table tennis table and a colorful trail intended to inspire visitors to run, walk or skate their way round.

The installation, called Transparent Happiness, is there until October 12.

Almost 30 years after her death, the first major solo show in Europe of work by Aboriginal Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray has wowed the critics.

The exhibition in London's Tate Modern brings together more than 80 works by the woman who only started painting in her late 70s and created more than 3,000 works over the next decade. Among them are several loans from US comedian and collector Steve Martin.

Writing in the Times of London, Nancy Durrant gave the show four stars and described the work as "so compelling" and teeming with life.

There are another four stars from the Daily Telegraph's Alastair Sooke, who says the show "delivers on the hype, with a thrilling finale" and picks out the 22-panel Alhalker Suite from 1993 with its "atmosphere of inspired, unbridled exuberance".

In a rare show of unanimity, there are four more stars from The Guardian whose reviewer Adrian Searle said her art is "filled with exhilarations and with difficulties".

The show runs until January 11.

1 - The race for this year's Turner Prize starts in earnest on September 23 when the critics get their preview of the works by nominees Nnena Kalu, Rene Matic, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa. The public is allowed in four days later to the show at Cartwright Hall art gallery in Bradford before the winner of the UK's most prestigious contemporary art prize is announced in December.

2 - A square in the heart of Paris will soon bear the names of Bulgarian-born artist Christo and his wife and creative partner Jeanne-Claude. The square is situated near the the historic Pont Neuf bridge where Christo and Jeanne-Claude famously realized one of their most iconic projects 41 years ago by wrapping it in fabric.

3 - Prospect New Orleans - the contemporary art triennial launched after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005 - has scrapped its planned 2027 event. Instead it will publish a book, mixing oral history and criticism, looking back at the first six events.