Recent study shows that humans inhabited and made art in the archipelago thousands of years earlier than previously thought

The Greek American artist was always willing to try new forms and materials, working across sculpture, photography, performance, installation and more

The artist’s commission for the Getty Center’s rotunda replicates the forms and colours of abalone shells that were once ubiquitous on the Los Angeles coast

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

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has been revised to expedite repatriation, leading many museums to conceal exhibits in the interim

An innovative agreement between the Metropolitan Museum, American businessman Leonard N. Stern and the Greek government led to the new display of 161 Cycladic antiquities at the New York museum

Authorities also began restoration work on art damaged during the ensuing riots

The Rio de Janeiro site, where one million enslaved Africans disembarked, retains its Unesco World Heritage status

Council moves forward with plans for 90,000 square-foot Las Vegas Museum of Art in Symphony Park

The rail network connecting archaeological sites and tourist destinations on the Yucatán peninsula is one of president Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s legacy projects

The Manhattan branch of photography museum Fotografiska will put around 200 works by the reclusive savant on view in May 2024

The Brazilian artist’s first solo US project, an Audemars Piguet Contemporary commission, turns the Collins Park Rotunda into a cavern of clay

The US federal government’s manoeuvres to boost domestic lithium extraction are raising fears from tribal communities about archaeological and environmental impacts

Soaring visitor numbers and new leadership team at Inhotim Institute trigger reset for major hotel development

Many organisations, including Unesco, fear the project will negatively affect the region’s cultural heritage, natural environment and residents when it opens in December

Companies that manage advertising spaces in Houston reportedly called off the project with little warning or explanation

A collaborative sculpture by Nicholas Galanin and Merritt Johnson was removed from an exhibition at the Washington, DC museum

The artist Summer Wheat will create a space for visitors to “explore their inner world” on the Kansas City Museum campus

The Brazilian pavilion will be renamed the “Hãhãwpuá Pavilion” for Tupinambá’s presentation, which is being co-curated by three Brazilian Indigenous artists

The American artist was long associated with the feminist art movement but resented the label, preferring to form her own critical iconography

Two surveys supported by the National Endowment for the Arts show that in-person art activities remain below pre-Covid levels, while many Americans continue to experience culture virtually

Nancy Baker Cahill’s augmented-reality work explores the climate crisis and interdependence between humans and nature

The activist art collective is bringing an installation of its work and a series of workshops to the Format festival in Bentonville

Converge 45 returns to Portland with more than 50 projects at 15 venues across the city

The installation features a reclaimed Ghanaian railroad track that visitors were previously encouraged to interact with

Titled “Choreographies of the Impossible”, the 35th edition of the world’s second-oldest biennial doesn’t dance around charged topics, it dances about them

Two New York institutions are overhauling their education facilities, while others test a digital-first style of art pedagogy

Arts funding in Brazil is being restored under President Lula, with new projects including a transitory “museum” exploring the history of Brazil’s African diaspora

The exhibition will shed new light on lesser-known, often ephemeral, works by women