Life and work of Francis Bacon to be celebrated in new institute in Monaco
Venture will bring together previously unseen photographs as well as oil paintings from the 1920s to the 1980s
Art and design
Why New York’s Metropolitan museum is leader of the free world of art
The Met, all set to rebuild its modern wing, mixes Rembrandts with Pollocks to create an unrivalled cocktail of past and present. Why can’t British art museums be as open-minded?
Michael Schmidt wins Prix Pictet for sprawling global food series
German-born photographer beat Adam Bartos and other big names for an epic look inside factory farms, slaughterhouses and supermarkets
• Farm to table: Michael Schmidt exposes the reality of what we eat – in pictures
• Why our guilt about consumption is all-consuming – Slavoj Žižek on the theme of this year’s Prix Pictet
Faking a fortune: why Damien Hirst’s paintings are poor imitations of art
A Florida pastor has been jailed for trying to sell fake paintings by the British artist. But why does the art world give Hirst’s talentless artworks any financial value at all?
Upcycling case history: from firehose to luxury goods
Design partnership Elvis & Kresse explain how they created
desirable bags and belts from London Fire Brigade’s waste
Movers and makers: the most powerful people in the art world
As Frieze art fair opens in New York, our power primer traces the artists and dealers, celebrity collectors and oligarchs who make the art world go round