Arts education was essentially eliminated in New York City public schools amidst the financial crisis in the 1970s. But on Monday, a handful of lucky youngsters will not only have art class, but a very special instructor, too: Jeff Koons.

Forget The Dorchester. The best London city views are from high above Southbank Centre, which is precisely where artist Fiona Banner chose to erect a one-bedroom houseboat available to the public for one-night-only stays.

From May 11 through June 11, Havana, Cuba will be a city brimming with art.

If the thirty-foot-tall blow-up bottle of ketchup nestled inside City Hall Park interrupted your daily trek to work last week, don’t fret. The balloon is part of Common Ground, Public Art Fund’s annual summer art spectacular.

Los Angeles has long had its rightful place in art history obscured by the influence of New York, but the last few years have started to reverse decades of neglect.

When David Koren visited Governors Island in 2005, he saw more than an idle mass of land plagued by a federal government deed that prevents permanent housing from being erected there. Instead, he saw a crowning destination for the arts. In 2007 he organized Figment, a participatory arts festival that brought together resources from the island, area artists, and a crazy-cool ethos gleaned from Burning Man in Nevada.

French graffiti artist Tilt cuts a room at Marseille’s Au Vieux Panier in half with his mad wall-writing skills.

Photographer Nick Stern stages eight real-life versions of Banksy’s most iconic stencils.

Manifesta 9, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, opens June 2 in Genk, Belgium and runs through September 30th. Beginning in the early 1990s, the biennial was created to bring Europe back together through art after the end of the Cold War. This year’s curatorial theme is The Deep of the Modern, inspired by the area’s history as a major coal mining region.