The 117 artefacts had been smuggled into South America within the past several years

Lorenzo Prendini says his permits to transport the specimens out of Turkey were ignored by police

The Campus, near the town of Hudson, will open to the public this summer

The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has received a grant from the Terra Foundation to get the 41 paintings ready for their first public exhibition since 2010

The 1823 naturalist tome describes species of monkeys and bats unique to the Amazon

The Brooklyn-based artist has created an abstract wall sculpture for the building’s lobby using parts of the old factory’s iconic yellow sign

From fabulous fish to playful pups, The Shed in Chelsea is crawling with wildlife

Hasani Sahlehe’s Trying Green, acquired by the Georgia Museum of Art with help from fashion company Stone Island, gives uniforms a pop of colour at The Shed

From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine

In a ceremony at the museum, Met director Max Hollein signed a "memorandum of understanding" together with a representative of the Thai cultural ministry

More than a decade after Turkey asked for it back, the sculpture will finally be returned

Brandy, anyone?

Drawn from a 300-work sub-collection gathered by John Szarkowski in the 1990s, the gift includes images by 96 photographers—among them Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston

It is the first US-museum acquisition of a work by the talented pupil of Jacques-Louis David

Works by artists from the region and diaspora appear alongside objects from the museum’s collection

The work's brightly coloured positivity stands in sharp contrast to the notorious reputation of the prison where it is installed

A new musical about the glamorous Art Deco painter matches its subject’s maximalism

She was the curator of the museum's blockbuster Edward Hopper and critically acclaimed Ruth Asawa exhibitions

No, this does not mean dinosaurs and humans lived there at the same time

The Whitney Museum’s flagship contemporary art showcase turns on questions of identity, authenticity and mutability, which play out across more than a handful of interrelated topics

The president and chief executive of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, which operates the Warhol Museum, insists that the move is not a result of recent controversies

The provincial government passed legislation to push through a controversial, publicly funded development of Ontario Place

Newly discovered rock art, including human and animal footprints, is thought to have been created 2,000 years ago

With a focus on art and wellness, the project will include Jewel’s own visual art, a drone show set to a new composition and a curated meal

Directed by the artist’s daughter and her husband, “A Revolution on Canvas” is a heart-breaking family drama disguised as a political thriller

The money will go towards the institution’s endowment and operational expenses

Stuffed-animal bodies sporting ceramic heads, hubcaps and their own licence plates roam Frieze

From irreverent fish to ceramic snakes, the animal kingdom is well represented at this year's fair

Vehicle created by the artist Pippa Garner has fairgoers rubbernecking at Santa Monica airport

From important shows of Korean and Japanese contemporary art, to major surveys of Paul Pfeiffer and Joan Brown, and more