$17.7m effort includes refurbishment of “palm dome” and two galleries

Shows at the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston explore the Mexican artist’s love of fashion and “arte popular”

Our highlights of works being sold over the next fortnight

Vladimir Kush is suing the 7 Rings singer for copyright infringement

Following a $65m sale of the Chinese modernist’s work in October, Sotheby’s will offer an untitled work this spring to benefit the museum’s acquisition fund

The Unesco-listed site is due to receive a museum of Afro-Brazilian culture

From female artists who made their mark on New York to designs for cities of the future

The museum has tapped Heather Harmon as its deputy director and needs to raise $12m by October

Our pick of the highlights from January's auctions and fairs

A temporary budget deal ended the US government shutdown on Friday, allowing state-funded arts organisations to get back to work

Our highlights from January's fairs and auctions

Our pick of highlights from January's auctions

The departments of culture, sports and social development have merged

The colossal work, one of the first arachnid sculptures the artist made, has embarked on a multi-city tour

With partnerships with the Smithsonian and Google as well as donations, the institution soldiers on

The organisation oversees the city’s international exhibition, as well as the country’s representation at the Venice Biennale and other projects

We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018

Having to cope with everything from curious koi to melting Vaseline, an art handler’s working days are certainly never dull

Works from the 3,000-strong collection have already travelled to Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil and in 2019, Fontanals-Cisneros plans to “cross even more uncharted waters”

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

The Design Miami Visionary award-winners tell us about their projects at the fair

Activist is among several artists detained in Havana on Monday ahead of planned protest

Our pick of highlights from December's auctions

From a tribute to the feminist stalwart Judy Chicago at the ICA to a reunion of the AfriCOBRA artist at MoCA

We once asked the artist for his thoughts on Minimalism; he called our questions “trivial, superficial, puerile, misdirected, irrelevant, egregious, distracted, dull, feeble, breathless, gossip-mongering, smarmy and lizard-like”

The Carlton Gallery of San Diego and a nearby warehouse had hundreds of pieces

Tis the season for Old Masters: here are three works to seek out, from a mythological marriage portrait to Annibale Carracci's sketch on an old account book

Meanwhile, the museum partners with a Chinese tech firm to digitise its catalogued collection

Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions