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Frank Gehrys Luma Tower © Adrian Deweerdt The architect Frank Gehry will unveil his latest blockbuster building—a soaring twisting geometric tower covered with 11,000 stainless steel panels—at Luma Arles this summer, the 27-acre cultural campus in the southern French town of Arles spearheaded and funded by the Swiss pharmaceutical heiress and contemporary art collector Maja Hoffmann. Gehry’s tower is the centrepiece of the new arts campus which formally launches ...

Heather Phillipson To Create Next Tate Britain Commission Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) will be the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. To be unveiled when the museum reopens, this major commission will be the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain. Her work tackles pressing contemporary issues in singular and remarkable ways – Alex Farquharson Audacious and disconcerting, Heather...

The Palais de Tokyo in Paris, pictured here during the 2018-19 exhibition Carte Blanche to Tomás Saraceno, launched a Change.org petition to lift Covid-19 restrictions on French museums and galleries Photo: Alina Grubnyak Around 100 leading figures in the French art scene have published an open letter calling on the culture minister Roselyne Bachelot to lift Covid-19 restrictions on the country’s galleries and museums, allowing them to reopen “as widely and as soon as p...

Jean Nouvel, the 2008 Pritzker Prize winner, has his project The Artists’ Garden under construction in Qingdao, China. The architect aims to create a poetic space for artists and those who are passionate about art, a place where emotional responses to seeing the sea can be shared, a great central garden, with fishermen and their boats, a small creek, parasols, and a rectangular harbour. The museum needs to be flexible, but it should also remain a museum. Jean Nouvel proposes to link up severa...

Luma, Arles11,000 irregular aluminium panels form a cliff face to Frank Gehry’s 56m-high centrepiece tower at the Luma in Arles, a 17-acre cultural centre founded by the Swiss collector Maja Hoffmann

Brutal Bacon, wild Gehry and unmissable Abramovic: 2021s best art, architecture and photography Jonathan Jones, Adrian Searle, Oliver Wainwright and Sean O’Hagan Art Screaming apes, isolated in cages – and that’s just the people. Bacon was the most atheist of artists and his vision of humans and other animals is relentlessly Darwinian, so don’t look for cuteness or sentiment in his ruthless dissections of our nature. This is a sideways look at a modern master. JJ Provoc...