A new law bans government-funded oil portraits of officials, but most paintings have been paid for privately for years

From anatomy to Americana

After pushing to eliminate the agencies, US President Donald Trump reluctantly signed a spending bill that assures their survival for 2018

Active or passive? With or without a colon?

Sleeping Beauty waxwork joins Donatello and Degas sculptures at Met Breuer

From Medieval time to a "sense of urgency"

The UK graffiti artist has put up a string of murals and stencils in the city

The founding director of Art Hong Kong, which was bought by Art Basel, returns with another venture in Asia

Bust of a Woman, which was never realised, would have been the world's tallest concrete sculpture

"Outsider" artists hold their own against more established contemporary names and inspire buyers in search of authenticity and quirk

At a fair with hundreds of works, it can be hard to know where to start looking. Here are some artists to keep an eye out for at the Armory

Visual artists including Gerhard Richter and Steve McQueen will work with performers like Sia, Quincy Jones and Steve Reich

Your essential guide to the Armory Show, Volta, Independent, Nada and beyond

New shows at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talents

From David Bowie in Brooklyn to Zoe Leonard at the Whitney

Many visitors responded to the change with a shrug, although some were more critical of the mandatory charge

The museum stopped showing the "unbearably relevant" work, which has two hands holding a gun and a candle, after Parkland shooting

From Medieval Europe to contemporary China

The Philadelphia-based curator sees opportunity to create dialogue between public artworks and the market

Every selected artist has a "degree of political and social engagement", curator says

If approved by the court, Rockwell's Shuffleton’s Barbershop will be bought by an unnamed US museum, and the other works sold in stages

Korea, California and the Holy Land

The court dismissed a claim on the painting by the heir of the Jewish collector who sold it to fund an escape from the Nazis

Multi-disciplinary cultural centre is due to open in 2019

City survey investigates the effect of tech boom rent rises on the arts sector

A show at Acquavella Galleries in New York brings together paintings by the two fast friends

The decision adds another wrinkle to the unsettled case law surrounding liability in art fraud

Noteworthy exhibitions at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talents

The museum will rehab a disused building in the neighbourhood’s Wetlands Park for storage and exhibition space, and start community arts programming within the next two years

The state’s investigation into the board’s controversial deaccessioning plan could be wrapping up within a week