‘Build back beautifully’: new bill aims to support arts jobs with $300m federal grants and commissions programme
The bipartisan Creative Economy Revitalization Act is inspired by the New Deal-era Works Progress Association and the 1970s Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
Legal battle over Frida Kahlo trademark dismissed in the US
The years-long legal tussle over the rights to the Mexican painter’s image was dismissed by a US District Court this week
New Museum announces sculpture award for women artists
Five artists will be commissioned to create sculptures for the museum’s public plaza when its expansion is complete
'No matter how wealthy you are, no one is above the law': New York court rejects Sotheby's attempt to dismiss suit alleging it helped collector evade tax on $27m of art
Attorney general claims the auction house created and used tax exemption certificates that falsely presented the buyer as an art dealer in order to dodge payments. Sotheby's says it will continue to contest the case
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Adam Pendelton's colossal recaps of the past year at MoMA, to Objects of Common Interest's minimalist designs at the Noguchi Museum
Healing Arts programme comes to New York with a two-month schedule of events
Artist commissions, expert discussions and film premieres will take place in the city, starting and ending with a pair of symposia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dread Scott's NFT 'White Male For Sale', a critique on slavery, to be auctioned off at Christie’s Post-War to Present sale
The work features a 1:10 loop of a business-class white man standing on an auction block
'A thunderstorm of ash and cloud': Artists remember 11 September
On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, artists reflect on how the event has impacted their work
Stargazer idol will not be returned to Turkey, New York federal judge rules
The court found there is not enough evidence that the work was taken out of the country after 1906
The top five museum shows to see during Armory Week
From Dior at the Brooklyn Museum to Shigeko Kubota at MoMA
Arts & Crafts Movement gets a dedicated museum in St Petersburg, Florida
The new institution has been founded by the private collector and businessman and Rudy Ciccarello
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Aline Motta’s meditation on colonial erasure at the New Museum to recent paintings by Markus Lüpertz at Michael Werner
New and noteworthy: see what the Armory Show's younger galleries are bringing to the fair
In the Presents section, galleries founded within the past ten years present solo or dual-artist shows. Here are some works to look out for this year
Destination Crenshaw commissions its first group of Black artists to create new works in Los Angeles
The $100m public art and community improvement project will launch with new sculptures by Kehinde Wiley, Melvin Edwards, Alison Saar, Brenna Youngblood and more
Maya stone monuments to be installed in the Met’s Great Hall
The stelae, on loan from Guatemala, feature life-sized depictions of ancient Indigenous leaders
New York dealer arrested for selling ‘cookie cutter’ manufactured goods as authentic antiquities
Investigators found thousands of fakes, as well as tools and materials used to make them seem ancient, in rooms near Sadigh Gallery’s Fifth Avenue showroom
Troubled skies behind the happy little clouds: an interview with Joshua Rofé, director of Netflix's new Bob Ross documentary
The film-maker behind Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed discusses what makes the artist an enduring icon who saw the beauty in life despite personal tragedy
Kaari Upson, Los Angeles artist who obsessively explored identity, family and Americana, has died, aged 51
The artist was known for years-long, multi-pronged projects based on singular figures—such as her mother or a mysterious man she dubbed “Larry”—and subjects
New York International Antiquarian Book Fair cancels its September edition
Officials cite a surge of Delta variant cases and the ongoing travel bans to the US, which blocked more than half of the event’s exhibitors from attending
Activists including the artist Nan Goldin protest bankruptcy settlement shielding the Sackler family from prosecution
Demonstrators plant cardboard tombstones outside a New York courthouse to call attention to Purdue Pharma’s role in deaths from the opioid painkiller Oxycontin
Former dealer Angela Gulbenkian is sentenced to three and a half years for defrauding art clients
Charges involved sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture that was never delivered and the theft of £50,000 that a friend had given her to invest
Fourth suicide shuts down New York’s towering Vessel yet again
Critics fault developers for not raising the barriers around the steps of the spiralling 150ft-tall structure to prevent deaths
Further cuts at SFMoMA end its film programme, art loan gallery and publishing platform
Seven staff will also lose their jobs as tightened budgets and low attendance impact operations
Bring your sunscreen and your opera glasses: Lithuanian pavilion performance comes to Brooklyn Academy of Music
The piece that won the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale will start a tour of the US in New York this September
Christian Boltanski, French conceptual artist, has died, aged 76
The artist, who was born just two weeks after Paris was liberated from Nazi control, was known for work that explored memory, loss and personal as well as cultural history
Mexican man arrested by FBI for attempting to sell allegedly fake works by Basquiat and Haring
Angel Pereda was offering paintings and sculptures by the artists to auction houses in New York
Richard Serra steel work to get its own art cabin in the woods at Glenstone
The artist is collaborating with the architect Thomas Phifer to design the new stand-alone gallery
Secret deals: Hunter Biden’s gallery pens ethics agreement with White House to keep art sales anonymous
German socialite Angela Gulbenkian pleads guilty to theft in London court
The charges against her stemmed from the fraudulent sale of a £1.1m Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture to a Hong Kong collector, while a similar claim against her over a Warhol portrait remains in German court
Sound art garden coming to Blanton Museum of Art thanks to $5m donation from Austin philanthropists Ernest and Sara Butler
The Bay Area artist Bill Fontana plans to make the echolocation of bats perceptible to human ears for the site’s first commission