Carter has been serving as the agency’s acting chair since January

Tariffs and new anti-trafficking rules took their toll in the US and Europe this year, as attention and investment shifted to the Middle East

The proposed museum outpost at a nearby nature reserve has been mired in controversy since it was first mooted in 2008

The $6.7m New York sale of the film star's prized possessions closed out a successful season for the auction house

While art-museum architecture remains vibrant across the globe, many US institutions are both uninspiring and unwelcoming

From collaboration to consolidation, some dealers are adapting to a changing market that many agree should not return to its previous peak

From Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou to Linder at the Hayward, these are the shows that stood out this year

The publications that delighted our literary team this year, from important exhibition catalogues and overdue surveys to personal reflections and playful illustrations

Netting a solid $133.4m total, the first Sotheby’s live sale in Abu Dhabi is described by the house as the largest debut for any new market in its history

The prize, presented in partnership with Nxthvn, includes a solo stand at Frieze Los Angeles and $25,000

The crypto mogul Justin Sun—who famously bought Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2m banana work and ate it—has also donated $7.8m to the government relief fund

The blue-chip gallery has acquired a 19th-century palazzo in need of restoration in Sicily

The University of Wolverhampton’s School of Art building, which played a key role in the emergence of the British Black arts movement in the 1980s, has been granted Grade II listed status

Archaeologists hope that the space, closed for more than ten years, will create positive change for the country’s heritage

A federal judge has rejected attempt by National Trust for Historic Preservation to temporarily halt president’s pet construction project

More than half the names originally planned to be inscribed on the Ottawa monument have been linked to Nazis

The biennial opens its 17th edition with a wide-ranging programme of 17 curators directing the projects of 51 artists across multiple venues

Show proposes that West and Central African photographers may have helped shape Black identities across the globe

The exhibition, co-curated by Whitney Museum of American Art staffers Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, will feature artists from 25 states and Puerto Rico, plus “places marked by the reach of US power”

“Exhibitions weren’t held, research wasn’t done,” says the curator of a new show on a forgotten generation

The publications that delighted our literary team this year, from important exhibition catalogues and overdue surveys to personal reflections and playful illustrations

In this extract from her new book, Maria "Masha" Alyokhina Alyokhina recalls her first meeting with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson

The best publications about Picasso's later years, from an esteemed biography to a book about his animal drawings—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The Toronto-born architect, who reshaped global skylines with his sweeping, seemingly unfinished creations, has died, aged 96

An anti-establishment fixture of the Los Angeles scene, Foulkes leaves behind a long legacy of furious expression spanning painting, sculpture, animation, music and more

From the signage of HMS Victory and Tate Britain, to the graphic identities of galleries and biennials, his designs can be found across contemporary British culture

The founding editor-in-chief of the bilingual Artes Visuales magazine, Stellweg ran galleries in new York and was also a prolific critic, scholar and curator

At Art Basel Paris, “the art world seemed to be staging a rally for art created by flesh-and-blood people”

The idea of making luxury more democratic seems both noble and impossible

John-Paul Stonard argues the case for honouring Constable at London's soon-to-be expanded National Gallery

To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor

The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s

Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar

An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages

The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month