The public space on the banks of the Mississippi, which honours a Black skiff boat operator who saved 32 people from drowning, features work by Theaster Gates and James Little

At the time of her death in March, the British sculptor had been working on a major Public Art Fund exhibition

The museum sparked scandal in 2021 with the phrasing of a job posting, but the new leader of its parent organisation says “we’re not a racist institution”

The collectors Bernard Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Jr, who met while studying at Yale, have endowed the new scholarship, recipients of which will also be mentored by Thomas

The first phase of the redevelopment of the New York museum of art from Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries will open in April

The new position, created by SFMoMA and the Museum of the African Diaspora, will involve the development of exhibitions and other programmes at both institutions

The artist’s new commission for Madison Square Park and an adjacent court building also includes an augmented reality component

Once a military base deep in the desert, the newly restored Marfa art centre is a sanctuary for sculpture

The fair founded in 2019 by collector Dean Valentine and gallerists Al and Mills Morán has carved out a significant niche as a Frieze alternative and local success story

Silver Art Projects, which operates a year-long residency program at the Lower Manhattan office complex, has received support for the initiative from Agnes Gund’s Art for Justice Fund

US museum builds a permanent research space for its "crown jewel"—more than 1,200 works by Henri Matisse

The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco makes four key hires ahead of a series of pop-up events and exhibitions starting in January

Campus expansion opens up “standoffish” building and inspires a total rehang of the encyclopaedic art collections

Dawoud Bey, Kerry James Marshall and Julie Mehretu are among 29 MacArthur fellows exhibiting in show in 19 venues throughout Chicago

Nearly 120 works by the pioneering feminist artist who used her body as a central focus of her work are on view in St Louis

Architect's Core Project expansion creates 90,000 sq. ft of new galleries and reimagined public spaces at heart of 1928 landmark

Evocative surprises await: while its Gilded Age home is closed for renovation and expansion, the Frick displays its masterworks in austere Modernist surroundings on Madison Avenue

The textile artist's retrospective at the National Museum of Women in the Arts explores complexities around race and heritage

Celebrating an anniversary, Arts and Industries landmark will revisit its beginnings as an incubator of new ideas

The daughter of sculptor Joel Shapiro, who grew up surrounded by art and artists, says she is "finally connecting the dots of her history"

Five artists have been asked to spend the next three years imagining what they could do with an uninhabited site

Inspired by the historic election of Kamala Harris as America’s first woman vice president, artists collaborate on a new online work presented by Creative Time

The artist’s foundation is supporting the community in Detroit through micro-grants and residencies

The abstract sound sculpture, the first commission for a fifth plinth in Collins Park, will emit recordings of women speaking maternal affirmations, reminders and critiques

Monumental moving works by the artist will be shown next fall on the Chelsea space’s rooftop and along Park Avenue uptown

“There's nothing common in our wealth”: ICA in Virginia teams up with Philadelphia Contemporary and Beta-Local in San Juan to interrogate a concept

An outdoor exhibition of the sculptor’s work has been postponed to give space to the Black Lives Matters movement

Instead of its annual summer gala, the long-running East Hampton art space will host a selling exhibition to raise funds

The nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organisation recently unveiled an incisive installation by Hank Willis Thomas on its Washington, DC headquarters

The artist Piotr Uklanski raises the spirits of the real-life women behind tragic paintings, such as Elizabeth Siddall, Annie Miller, Emma Jones and Jane Morris, at Belmont Chapel in Newport