American Museum of Natural History has repatriated more than 100 Native American human remains and 90 objects
The institution intensified its repatriation efforts after revised federal rules governing Native American remains and funerary objects went into effect earlier this year
Kyla McMillan is The Armory Show’s new director
McMillan joins as the New York City fair, which was acquired by Frieze last summer, prepares for its 30th anniversary edition in September
Getty’s PST Art initiative will open with a colossal Cai Guo-Qiang fireworks display
The artist’s daytime fireworks event, incorporating drones and artificial intelligence, will take place in and above the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on 15 September
New beginnings for public art programme at Newfields
More than a decade after it opened, the art and nature park at the Indianapolis institution has $3m in new funding and its first new show
Art is on the curriculum at The Campus, a former school in upstate New York transformed by six galleries
From former classrooms, locker rooms, labs, a gymnasium and an overgrown football field, art is present in nearly every space
New York City budget for 2025 restores $53m in cultural funding
The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems
After public vote, Los Angeles Natural History Museum’s star dinosaur fossil christened with unusual gname
The 75ft-long sauropod fossil will go on prominent display when the museum’s new entry pavilion opens this autumn
Cancelling Kehinde Wiley shows ‘does a disservice to the audiences’, anti-censorship group claims
The National Coalition Against Censorship is calling out museum leaders in Miami, Minneapolis and Omaha that cancelled or postponed Wiley’s exhibitions following sexual-assault allegations against him
MFA Boston director Matthew Teitelbaum will retire after ten-year stint
Teitelbaum has navigated one of the US’s most prominent art museums through a decade of renovations, revamped education initiatives, scandals and shutdowns
Florida hedge-fund manager building art park for prized Richard Serra sculpture
After abandoning a private museum project in Miami, Bruce Berkowitz will create a verdant art destination in the Florida panhandle
Judge dismisses Holocaust restitution claim to Guggenheim’s Blue Period Picasso
Karl and Rosi Adler’s heirs had claimed that “La repasseuse” (1904) had been sold under duress as the couple fled Nazi persecution
Leading New York gallerist Barbara Gladstone has died, aged 89
The dealer, who died in Paris “after a brief illness”, represented many of the most ambitious contemporary artists of the past half-century
Gagosian’s chief operating officer Andrew Fabricant leaves gallery
Fabricant’s wife Laura Paulson, a former Christie's rainmaker who helped launch Gagosian Art Advisory, has also left
US museums postpone Kehinde Wiley shows following series of sexual assault allegations against the artist
Exhibitions of the artist's work at museums in Florida, Minnesota and Nebraska have been postponed
Brooklyn Museum director’s home targeted by pro-Palestine activists
The entrance to museum director Anne Pasternak’s apartment building was vandalised with red paint and a banner describing her and the museum as a “White-Supremacist Zionist”
Amid backlash, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will modify exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish founders
Organised in response to criticisms that its initial display did not acknowledge Hollywood’s Jewish origins, the exhibition now faces charges of antisemitism from Jewish activists
Photofairs' New York fair is cancelled until ‘market conditions improve’
The fair debuted in 2023 on the same dates and in the same building as The Armory Show
State officials will investigate sudden closure of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts as 600 workers are laid off
The Pennsylvania attorney general’s office is examining the circumstances surrounding the renowned school’s closure, and Philadelphia’s city council is planning hearings
Alleged ringleader of Canada’s ‘biggest art fraud’ pleads guilty
David Voss reportedly led a forgery operation that created more than 1,500 fake Norval Morrisseau works over 23 years
MFA Houston can keep Bernardo Bellotto painting sold to the Nazis, appeals court rules
The lawsuit stems from the accidental restitution of the wrong painting in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War
Legal fight brewing over Pérez Art Museum Miami’s digital billboard
Miami’s city commissioners voted to repeal a law passed last year to allow the museum to build an extra-large billboard
New York branch of photography museum Fotografiska will close and relocate
The museum will vacate its historic premises on Park Avenue South this autumn
New tool tracks incidents of artistic censorship related to Israel-Hamas war
The digital resource, created by US non-profit National Coalition Against Censorship, catalogues incidents from cancelled exhibitions and performances to removed works
Artist Sable Elyse Smith wins $200,000 Suzanne Deal Booth and Flag Art Foundation Prize
In addition to the prize money, the interdisciplinary artist will receive a solo show that debuts at The Contemporary Austin in Texas, then travels to the Flag Art Foundation in New York
Christie’s website brought down by hackers days before marquee spring auctions
The auction giant’s web address currently redirects to a placeholder page where telephone numbers for its various offices are listed
Donald Trump dines with NFT mega-collectors during break from New York hush-money trial
Between days of testimony by Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star who claims she had sex with Trump in 2006, the former president is meeting NFT collectors at Mar-a-Lago
Bard College plans $10m expansion of Center for Curatorial Studies’ library
The expansion of the influential programme’s library and archives will be named the Keith Haring Wing in recognition of a gift from the artist’s foundation
‘An unsatisfying status quo’: art centre can neither demolish artist Mary Miss’s outdoor installation nor be forced to repair it, judge rules
Stalemate in the dispute over the fate of Miss’s Land art environment in Des Moines, Iowa
European court rules Italy can pursue restitution of Getty Museum’s prized Greek bronze
“Victorious Youth”, which was found off the Adriatic coast by Italian fishermen in 1964, has been the subject of an international legal feud for decades
Frieze New York's animal art gives fairgoers paws for thought
From fabulous fish to playful pups, The Shed in Chelsea is crawling with wildlife