Sara Driver has made a fascinating chronicle of the late American artist’s formative years

New film about Nordic animator who was behind hugely influential post-war gay erotica

Film review: The sequel has more quips, more kitsch, more spectacle, less plot

DJ Shrem and partner artist Les Cullinan’s home zings with colour and curiosities

Writer and art historian Francesco Spampinato explores collaborations between musician and artists in his new book Art Record Covers

The possibilities are endless, but here are 10 Yuletide activities to do in New York City

Having earned his stripes with political murals, the street artist is taking to the garret

As pay by weight looms, what creative ways can we use to lighten load of reusable refuse?

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, reopened after a $305 million expansion, is now the biggest gallery of its kind in the US and has been transformed into a suitably blue-chip space

Hatmaker Anthony Peto on the design philosophy that runs through his life

The in-demand artist, who’s showing at this year’s EVA International, offers ‘unique inner experiences that can be used for the exploration of the self’

Artworks are like people: you don’t have to like all of them. The best buying tip is to to trust your gut instincts

Artwork blocked during Rouhani and Renzi’s joint address at Capitoline Museum

The Oscar-nominated star of ‘Brooklyn’ has been raving about this Dublin nail salon on the red carpet and US TV

There's a nod to visual art, the stage, and even a robot-themed 3D printing company in Gemma Tipton's selection of people to watch in the arts this year

When Liu Yiqian paid €160m for a Modigliani painting, he put it on his credit card, and the air miles he earned mean he and his family will never pay for a flight again

Where some just see hedges, topiary obsessives in suburbia see a chance to create amazing living sculptures – the dafter the better

The controversial mosque at the Venice Biennale by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel is the latest work in a long line to test the limits of art

Is selling Alec Soth’s ‘intangible’ photographs a cynical ploy to feed the First World’s need to need, or does it reveal something about the parts of us that only art can reach?

What started as an idea to raise money from sketches Bono drew of his father has turned into a book featuring international stars in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation, writes Kathy Gilfillan

Dalí, Bacon, Warhol, Hirst: they are not con artists but their reputations are overinflated

Alasdhair Willis, the boot maker’s newish creative director, says he doesn’t join a business unless he can get results

The spending power of super-rich collectors who are blinded by celebrity is making Old Masters unsaleable while brash works fetch stratospheric prices – and it’s killing a key component in art’s ecosystem

Postmodern pop conceptualist Momus has written a novel that explores America by throwing the Brendan Voyage into reverse

The Dublin-born artist’s piece ‘Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards’ dates from 1984

Large-scale art, a global trend that Antony Gormley’s ‘Angel of the North’ can take some blame for, often doesn’t work, but sometimes, as with Dublin’s Spire, the gamble pays off

“In a time when the women of pop are a depressing mess of childish coquettishness and tawdry pornification, Gaga stands alone as an almost sexless carnival of the bizarre.” Jennifer Gannon is definitely buying a ticket for Lady Gaga

From Pussy Riot to Netflix and Jeff Koons’s €42 million dog, our critics choose their best and worst of the past year

The art world is adept at training us to want what it’s selling, but perhaps it’s time to consider instead what we want from art

Artist’s top auction price prior to Tuesday was a still hefty $86.3m

1969 piece raises bar and becomes most expensive work ever sold at auction

A piece we admire in a gallery might not look so good at home, and vice versa. How do we decide what we like, and what does it say about us?