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Sarah Sze: the artist creating complex immersive worlds from everyday objects

The US artist discusses her solo show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and her upcoming Artangel project in an abandoned London train station waiting room

Amid mounting scrutiny of its collecting practices, Metropolitan Museum will form provenance research squad

The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

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Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle returns to the big screen in New York

The screening of this ambitious contribution to cinema, showing in its entirety in New York for the first time in eight years, coincides with the debut of Barney's newest project

Former OpenSea employee found guilty in first-ever NFT insider trading trial

Former OpenSea product manager Nathanie Chastain has been convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in a landmark case

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, becomes ‘nexus for the study of Islamic art’

Texas institution opens six new galleries to display its collection of Islamic art, coinciding with its hosting of symposium on the subject

A pop-up museum in New York pushes back against 'excessive policing'

The Museum of Broken Windows takes on themes of state-sponsored racial injustice in light of New York mayor Eric Adams's planned municipal budget allocating $11bn to the NYPD

Florida educator ousted for showing students Michelangelo's David visits sculpture in Florence

Former Tallahassee Classical School principal Hope Carrasquilla travelled to Italy and met with the Galleria del'Accademia's director

50 US museums receive grants and art from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

As the late artist's 100th birthday nears, his foundation is undertaking the largest philanthropic project in its history

Getty Images rejects venture capital firm's $4bn takeover bid

Getty Images has rejected a takeover attempt by the Boston-based venture investment company Trillium Capital, citing issues with the feasibility and transparency of the bid

San Francisco Art Institute files for bankruptcy

After years of financial troubles, one of the Bay Area's leading art school's faces the potential liquidation of its storied archive

Bored Ape Yacht Club creators score legal victory in lawsuit against artists who made copycat NFT collection

Yuga Labs has won a partial victory in its legal dispute with artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen; the decision could impact future copyright copyright rules in Web3

A fugitive art dealer convicted of selling counterfeit art 14 years ago has been extradited to the US

Angela Catherine Hamblin, who has been hiding out in a small village in Scotland for over a decade, is being extradited to the US

First-ever insider trading trial over NFTs set to begin in Manhattan court

A former OpenSea employee has been accused of insider trading; the outcome of the case may change the meaning of that phrase forever

Florida bill would allow civilians to sue over damage to or removal of Confederate monuments

The proposed legislation is seen as an effort to defend Confederate monuments and markers in the public sphere by streamlining civil lawsuits

National Endowment for the Humanities awards over $35m in grants

The agency's grants will support a range of arts and heritage initiatives, including major exhibition projects at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, National Building Museum and elsewhere

Former Art Institute of Chicago employee pleads guilty to embezzling $2m from the museum

Michael Maurello may face up to 20 years in prison for his financial misdeeds at the museum

Santa Fe's Center for Contemporary Arts closes permanently despite last-minute fundraising effort

The New Mexico institution, established in 1979, has shut its doors, seemingly forever

Former museum aide sentenced for stealing Indigenous artefacts, including a grizzly bear necklace

Preston Jay Spotted Eagle has been sentenced to five years probation on charges of stealing government property from his former employer, the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfoot reservation in Montana

San Francisco curator details three previously unattributed Botticelli drawings

Research for a forthcoming exhibition at the Legion of Honor museum has led a curator to add three new entries to Botticelli's oeuvre

Richard Bell’s activist art hits the big screen in Chicago

Bell is showing in Expo Chicago's sector for large and site-specific works, and is the subject of a documentary screening during the fair

FBI launches app to help identify stolen art

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made its Nation Stolen Art File, most commonly used by law enforcement, available on mobile to the public

Derrick Adams’s unicorns are taking over Chicago

In addition to rideable unicorn sculptures at Expo Chicago, the city’s vast projection art venue Art on theMart will feature footage of Adams’s mystical animal statues

Christie's launches grant programme to support research of Nazi-era provenance

The year-long grant will support three graduate students researching Nazi-confiscated cultural artefacts between 1933 and 1945

Amid scandal, Florida Department of Education says Michelangelo's David has 'artistic and historical value'

Though the Sunshine State's agencies have adopted extreme views on other topics, its Department of Education rebuffed claims that "David" is pornographic

Important portrait painting missing for more than 60 years is returned to Montana university

The Montana Museum of Art and Culture has been reunited with an important Impressionist portrait

Man fingered in Philadelphia theft of thumb from terracotta warrior will plead guilty

A man whose drunken antics at a 2017 ugly sweater party at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia got him in hot water with the FBI, is expected to take a plea bargain in order to avoid jail time

Emily Fisher Landau, contemporary art collector and important Whitney Museum benefactor, has died, aged 102

Landau, whose discerning eye and aesthetic curiosity made her a fixture in the art world from the 1980s onward, began collecting after receiving an insurance settlement for a jewellery heist at her home

Questions remain about the fate of Wounded Knee Massacre objects repatriated to Lakota and Sioux nations

After a repatriation ceremony last November, members of Indigenous communities debate what to do with objects long held at the Founders Museum

Florence's mayor invites Florida students and their former principal to experience the 'purity' of Michelangelo's David

The mayor of Florence and the director of the Galleria dell’Accademia have invited the ousted principal and her students on an honorary visit

More than 50 historical guns returned to US museums they were stolen from decades ago

A lead in a 1970s cold case led investigators to a trove of stolen historical weapons; now, these objects are being returned to the institutions they belong to