Uproar over US art centre’s plan to demolish Land art environment by Mary Miss
The Des Moines Art Center in Iowa intends to demolish Miss’s environmental intervention, against the artist’s wishes
Archival efforts at an artist’s foundation and two New York non-profits get a major boost
Hauser & Wirth Institute is supporting processing of materials from New York’s Drawing Center and Dieu Donné, and the archive of Jesse Murry
New York’s performance art biennial returns, with a focus on the heyday of conceptual art
The 2023 Performa Biennial takes as its starting point the conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s, across works by 40 contemporary artists
Marta Minujín bringing towering, psychedelic inflatable sculpture to Times Square
The Argentinian artist’s first public sculpture in New York will coincide with a survey at the Jewish Museum
New stained-glass windows by Kerry James Marshall unveiled at Washington, DC's National Cathedral
The new works replace those depicting Confederate generals that were removed in 2017
'Non-profit burnout is real': Brooklyn Museum offers funding and specialised training to culture leaders of colour
Eight Brooklyn-based arts non-profits will each receive $25,000 and ten months of workshops and other sessions
An environmental art festival in Los Angeles seeks to counteract climate despair and inspire action
The organisers of Earth Edition, a new festival at CalArts, are seeking to showcase “what is being done that’s positive, that’s solutions-oriented”
Steve McQueen will take over Dia Beacon’s cavernous basement next spring with ‘his most abstract work to date’
Commissioned by the Dia Art Foundation and the Schaulager in Switzerland, the work will mark a return to McQueen’s video-art roots
Former San Francisco Art Institute campus may house a future new art school
Bay Area philanthropists and arts leaders seek to continue the tradition of an art school at the old SFAI campus—great news for the Diego Rivera mural there
US public art project seeks to combat rising antisemitism
The latest billboard campaign by For Freedoms follows an alarming rise in attacks and threats against Jewish people and sites
Renzo Piano to design performing-arts centre in South Florida
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect's firm, which accepts only two projects per year, will take on the new Center for Arts and Innovation in Boca Raton
Intricate Maya nose ornament made of human bone discovered in Mexico
Archaeologists at the pre-Hispanic site of Palenque discovered the finely carved artefact, believed to be at least 1,100 years old
Second judge rules that Vermont Law School did not violate artist's rights in covering up problematic murals
The decision comes after the artist, Sam Kerson, appealed a district court’s 2021 ruling
Orlando Museum of Art sues its former director over Basquiat forgery scandal
According to the lawsuit, Aaron De Groft stood to benefit from the eventual sale of the fake Basquiats—and planned subsequent shows of works purportedly by Titian and Pollock
Employees at the Art Institute of Chicago museum and school ratify their first union contract
More than 500 workers at the institutions will get raises over 12%
Breuer building's miniature sculpture to stay put after takeover
Sotheby's, which is the new owner of the Madison Avenue building, “will proudly act as stewards” of Charles Simonds’s tiny installation
New augmented reality app turns objects at the Metropolitan Museum into digital gaming accessories
The app, Replica, is a partnership with Verizon that lets visitors deploy works from the museum’s collection in the popular game Roblox
Antiquities trafficking is not ‘the third largest illicit trade in the world’, researchers claim
New report traces the origins of the oft-repeated superlative, which its authors say is incorrect and actually makes it harder to fight trafficking
MoMA trustee Leon Black settles lawsuit with the US Virgin Islands over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
He will pay $62.5m to exempt him from legal claims related to Epstein’s sex trafficking
Monuments to overlooked histories are coming to Washington, DC’s National Mall
New public art show will bring alternative monuments by Derrick Adams, Wendy Red Star, vanessa german and others to the busiest national park in the US
Last resort: antiquities Israel loaned to Trump are stranded at Mar-a-Lago
Originally loaned to the White House in 2019, the items followed Donald Trump to his Florida residence and have yet to be returned
New school reimagines art education
Founded by art historian Romi Crawford, the New Art School Modality aims to both make art school more accessible and open up alternative forms of study and exchange
The United States officially rejoins Unesco
Following a five-year absence, one of the founding members of the UN's cultural agency is readmitted as the organisation's 194th member state
Museums cut ties with David Adjaye after sexual misconduct allegations
Since bombshell accusations about the architect's behaviour became public, cultural institutions have rushed to distance themselves from him
US museum returns centuries-old Bakor monolith to Nigeria
The Chrysler Museum of Art repatriated the ancient sculpture following the recent discovery of photographic evidence
A new organisation wants to empower US museums to reallocate resources from objects to people
Remuseum, launched by the Crystal Bridges Museum with support from the Ford Foundation, has appointed Stephen Reily as its founding director
Less than half of California State University campuses are complying with federal Native American restitution regulations, audit finds
The California universities “generally lack the policies, funding and staffing necessary to follow the law and repatriate their collections”, the report found.
Art and heritage groups must ‘take action now’ to protect culture against climate change, report says
Authors of a new report from the the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities say climate change is the most significant threat in conservation
Amid record visitation, Harvard Art Museums do away with entry fees
The university’s three art institutions—the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger and Arthur M. Sackler museums—are now free for all visitors
California man found guilty of smuggling ancient Roman mosaic looted from Syria into US
Mohamad Alcharihi faces up to two years in prison and will be sentenced at the end of August