Textile artist Gary Tyler wins 2024 Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize
The artist, who was wrongfully incarcerated for almost 42 years, will receive $25,000 and a solo stand at this year’s edition of the fair
Lacma organising Zeng Fanzhi show in Venice to coincide with the 2024 Biennale
Co-curated by the Los Angeles museum's director, Michael Govan, the exhibition is designed by Tadao Ando
Canadian museum removing name of former director and Nazi supporter Ferdinand Eckhardt from its entrance hall
The longtime Winnipeg Art Gallery director's Order of the Buffalo Hunt, one of Manitoba’s highest honours, has also been posthumously rescinded
Eleanor Nairne joins the Philadelphia Museum of Art as head of Modern and contemporary art
The former curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London hops the pond
Frick Collection director to retire after $195m renovation
Ian Wardropper has been leading the museum since 2011, guiding it through its renovation and temporary relocation to the former Whitney Museum building
Confederate Memorial coming down at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, DC
Now that a judge lifted a last-minute injunction, the monument will be gone by the end of the week
Caught red-handed: climate activist pleads guilty to defacing Degas exhibit at National Gallery of Art
Joanna Smith faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei does away with culture ministry 24 hours after taking office
The new far-right president halved the number of government ministries (and devalued the peso by 50%) in a show of “control” over the nation and its economic troubles
In pictures: Art Basel in Miami Beach's Meridians section features big works tackling big topics
Curator Magalí Arriola picks out some highlights from the fair's large-scale presentation
Delayed gratification for Miami’s new Museum of Sex
Postponed until January, the Florida outpost of the beloved New York institution will open with wet, wild and scholarly exhibits
Dutch artist Anneke Eussen’s border-questioning sculpture acquired by the city of Miami Beach
The purchase is part of the city’s annual programme to acquire a work from Art Basel in Miami Beach
Sky's the limit in public art project in solidarity with Miami's drag queens
As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cracks down on their public visibility, local celebrities from Fantasia Royale Gaga to Persephone Von Lips are celebrated in banner form above Española Way
Nam June Paik exhibition at The Bass reveals his love affair with Miami Beach
A show at The Bass explores how the father of video art was inspired by south Florida, where he spent the last few years of his life
Naked ambition: nudist group hopes to build a Miami Beach museum
A local non-profit is looking into possible sites near Haulover Beach Park, one of the only clothing-optional beaches in Florida
Ethiopian culture explored with Medieval icons, Haile Selassie’s cloak and scratch-and-sniff cards
An exhibition at the Walters Art Museum spanning two millennia looks to open our eyes to the splendour of an intercontinental cultural hub
Mark Bradford wins $500,000 Getty Prize
As stipulated in the award's new rules, the Los Angeles-based abstract artist will donate the money to a non-profit of his choosing
A theatrical new Calder exhibition staged in Seattle
The Seattle Art Museum’s gift of more than 45 works from collectors Jon and Kim Shirley makes for a compelling performance
Former Art Institute of Chicago payroll manager gets three years in prison for embezzling more than $2m
Michael Maurello is also expected to pay back what he he stole from the museum
‘One of the great museum directors of her generation’: Ann Philbin to retire after 25 years leading the Hammer Museum
Philbin transformed the University of California, Los Angeles's campus museum (originally built to house an oil magnate's Old Masters) into a world-class contemporary art institution
Jasper Johns’s ‘mutual aid’ organisation for artists receives almost $9m from the estate of Los Angeles gallerist Margo Leavin
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been selling works donated by visual artists to fund those working in experimental forms and performance since 1963
New 3D documentary tells the multidimensional story of American artist H.C. Westermann
Westermann’s hand-carved wooden sculptures pop off cinema screens in Los Angeles and Chicago this month
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum sues architect and construction company behind new $38m pavilion
The museum says that Why Architects and Swinerton Builders “failed to meet even the minimum museum-quality standards”
The National Museum of Women in the Arts reopens after $67.5m makeover
The Washington, DC, museum opens on 21 October with an ambitious show of previously unseen large-scale sculptures and immersive installations
Sallisa Rosa is bringing her largest ceramic installation to Miami Beach and São Paulo
The project, commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary, draws on the artist’s Indigenous heritage to explore collective memory
New building for Memphis Brooks Museum imperilled amid lawsuit over ownership of its riverfront plot
The legal case seeking to block the art museum's new $180m Herzog & de Meuron-designed building is ongoing
The Met and Yemeni government reach agreement for long-term display and care of two ancient sculptures
The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on
Unesco adds sites in Kyiv and Lviv to list of world heritage in danger
Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the historic centre of Lviv join Odesa on Unesco’s endangered list
Gagosian notches victory in lawsuit brought by photographer over Richard Prince’s New Portraits series
The gallery will not have to pay Donald Graham for any “unrealised profits” related to Prince’s appropriation of the photographer’s work
Finding humour in New York's Independent 20th Century fair
The art fair's second edition features plenty of paintings, plus some unusual sculptures, by previously overlooked 20th-century artists
Non-profits paws-itively ubiquitous at Armory Week fairs
Amid the commercial commotion, fairs like The Armory Show, Independent 20th Century and Photofairs New York are providing free or discounted space for non-profits