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Minneapolis Institute of Art unveils new-look period rooms
Curators uncover alternative histories of colonial America through new research
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Nowhere to hide: new tool brings technical firepower to the fight against fraudsters
Proprietary screening software will trawl the dark web for fakes and unauthorised copies sold online
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Texas oil town is enjoying another boom—and this time it’s for art
Since the arrival of a contemporary fair jolted its local collecting scene, Dallas has gone from outpost to hot spot
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Culture on the frontline: Penn Museum shows artefacts curators are fighting to save in Syria and Iraq
Exhibition features ancient objects and Medieval manuscripts, along with contemporary commissions by a Syrian-born artist
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Contemporary art dominates US museums, our visitor surveys confirm
Decisive shift away from historic art exhibitions began in mid-2000s
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More shows, fewer problems
New research reveals that increasing the number of exhibitions pays off for museums
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Cuban loans travel to the US via Europe as barriers remain in place
Cultural exchange is easier said than done
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Teresita Fernandez wants to change the way you think about American landscapes
The artist’s installation at the home of Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church reminds visitors that stunning painted vistas were also homes to real people
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Former Met curator speaks candidly about the New York museum's current challenges
George Goldner, who led the museum’s department of prints and drawings for two decades, says it needs to reassess its priorities
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Metropolitan Museum director Thomas Campbell resigns
The news comes as the New York museum tackles financial problems, sheds staff, cuts down on shows and postpones a $600m project
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Trump’s travel ban denounced by curators and artists
Institutional leaders say such restrictions would have grave consequences on exhibitions, research and the future of cultural exchange
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Why auctioneers are buying into forensics
Scientific analysis comes to the fore as Sotheby's establishes new department, but some remain doubtful about technology's reliability
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Artists, curators and gallerists sign letter calling for repeal of Trump’s immigration order
“The ban affects all of us” say signatories from across the art world
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MoMA responds to Trump’s immigration ban through its collection
The museum installs works by artists from Muslim nations in its permanent galleries
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Art consultants Arisohn + Murphy offer pop-up project management
New York firm finds niche helping artists and galleries
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Signs of the times: museums and libraries preserve placards from the Women’s Marches
Archives in the US and the UK are collecting the wittiest and sharpest signs from the protests over the election of US president Trump
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Tide rises on Robert Rauschenberg's island retreat
Captiva, the late artist's Florida compound, is "at high risk of storm surge flooding”
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Is the Ringling Museum's Velázquez the real deal?
Scans reveal the Florida institution's portrait of Philip IV had a fashion-forward makeover
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US collectors send Dutch Old Masters on world tour
Leiden Collection due to open at the Louvre next year before travelling to Shanghai, Beijing and Abu Dhabi through 2018
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The future is now: mobile phone photos are coming to the Met
Museum invites 24 artists to exchange images through their phones “in a game of visual ping-pong”
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Islamic art takes centre stage in Dallas
Keir collection of 2,000 works is one of the world's largest
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‘Letting colour loose’: Kenneth Noland’s final paintings come to Pace New York
The series of 15 never-before-shown works have remained in the artist’s Maine studio since he started them in 2006, four years before his death
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'Poetry arises out of pragmatism’
The US artist Jill Magid on making art about bureaucracy
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Climate change is the hot topic
As waters rise, Miami is on the front line of global warming
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Artist to disappear into Puerto Rican rainforest
Papo Colo will live off the land in silence for 400 days as part of a new performance
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The Florida island that revived Rauschenberg
Artist’s refuge in tiny Captiva has been transformed into a retreat
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President Trump: the knowns and unknowns
First reactions to property tycoon’s election to the White House and what it could mean for the arts
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Artist turns Whitney work upside down after election
Annette Lemieux asked the museum’s curators to reverse her work Left Right Left Right
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How the Albright-Knox Art Gallery raised more than $100m in just three months
Los Angeles-based billionaire makes surprise $42.5m gift to fund expansion
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Modernism goes Latin American at MoMA
Collectors’ gift is part of wider trend in US museums as they redefine American art
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Three to see: New York
Explore art history with Kerry James Marshall and bask in the pure positivity of Mark Leceky
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MoMA boosts Latin American holdings with Cisneros collection
The Venezeulan collectors have given more than 100 works to the New York museum ahead of expansion
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Five years on and the Clyfford Still Museum is still making discoveries
Curators have yet to examine more than 300 of late artist’s paintings
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VP candidate Tim Kaine sponsors gun art show in Washington, DC
Photographs of works made by artists using decommissioned weapons are displayed in Senate building one month before the election, while originals are on view at local think tank
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A study in contrasts
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Most wanted: US Secret Service's car of choice
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Three to see: New York
From a man cave to a coral reef, we've got you covered
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Want a piece of a former Met curator's collection? It'll cost less than you think
The collection of Everett Fahy, who led the museum’s European paintings department and later the Frick Collection, headlines Christie's Old Master sale
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‘If we don’t work together, we will see very dark times,’ says outgoing V&A director Martin Roth
American and Chinese museum leaders gather in New York to discuss international co-operation
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Bigger than the Broad: Glenstone is about to become one of America's biggest museums
Roni Horn gets the solo treatment ahead of private museum’s major expansion in 2018
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President Obama to ring in grand opening of Smithsonian's African-American museum
Tens of thousands expected at the weekend festival celebrating the newest addition on the National Mall, including performances by the Roots and Public Enemy, dance, spoken word and a southern BBQ
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Why a growing number of museum veterans are crossing over to the commercial sector
Boundaries are not what they used to be, as the former director of the Andy Warhol Museum heads to Sotheby’s
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Black history takes its place on Washington’s Mall
US president Barack Obama is due to cut the ribbon on the Smithsonian’s newest museum this month
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Bass museum’s Miami Beach expansion delayed
Construction on the landmark Art Deco building pushed back until spring 2017
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Richard Long gets down to earth at 101 Spring Street
British sculptor invited to create mud-based work in Donald Judd’s restored SoHo home and studio
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Instagram model and makeup artist sues Richard Prince over copyright infringement
Part of the New Portraits series, the work at the centre of the case was shown—and sold—at Frieze New York last year
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Three to see: New York
From the rigours of fashion at the Met to the power of sport in Brooklyn
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Curators' tour of the new Tate Modern
As gallery attracts more than one million visitors in opening month, Catherine Wood, Achim Borchardt-Hume and Matthew Gale pick the works that take pride of place
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Garage opens Russia’s most extensive programme for disabled visitors
This year’s programme to focus on increasing access for the Moscow museum's deaf audience
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Macaws, crowds and an expanded canon: inside the new Tate Modern
Rehang of the collection places unfamiliar names alongside established ones while performance takes centre stage<br>
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Obama library architects chosen
Husband-and-wife team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien designed the Barnes Foundation’s new Philadelphia home and the former American Folk Art Museum in New York
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She’s got the look: where to find self-portraits, a jeune fille, muses and an unmerry widow at Art Basel
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Art Basel puts photography in the frame
Wolfgang Tillmans to get Beyeler’s first show of photos, as collectors buy major works at the fair
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Kids commission the darnedest things: New York high-schoolers choose public art for Long Island City
Brooklyn-based artist Mika Tajima work looks like a hot tub with plumes of coloured vapour that change hues based on the fluctuating price of gold
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Made for each other: Moholy-Nagy and the Guggenheim rotunda
The Hungarian law student and aspiring poet turned Bauhaus artist is an ideal choice for the spiralling architectural space
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US Senate committee submits private museum findings to Internal Revenue Service
Limited opening hours, visits by appointment only and founders’ out-of-hours access to collections transferred to non-profit foundations are among senators' concerns
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New Museum well on way to $80m target
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A curator's tour of the new SFMoMA
Three curators pick under-the-radar works they are excited to have on show at the newly expanded museum
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SFMoMA shows off its hard-won treasures
The San Francisco museum reopens with something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue-chip
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Don’t bank on it: New York artist’s memorial to financial failures comes to Wall Street
Michael Mandiberg has recorded the logos of more than 500 banks that closed during the recession for his installation FDIC Insured
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Sales points: notable purchases at three Frieze galleries
From a Caucasian carpet to Pop-Tart drawings
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Furniture retailer West Elm has designs on opening New York gallery
Company is collaborating with Uprise Art to create high-end store with contemporary art space
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Genius at work: New York celebrates its MacArthur winner
Nicole Eisenman, who is showing new works this week, on the “weird and wonderful” inspiration the city provides
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Top shows to see during Frieze New York
Our pick of exhibitions at museums in the city
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Creating value around women artists: the chief curator’s view
Moca’s Helen Molesworth explains why the gender imbalance in museums persists and what can be done to remove it
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A bigger, bluer-chip SFMoMA reopens after three years
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International furniture retailer opens art space
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Say cheese! Crystal Bridges plans contemporary outpost
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What does a female artist have to do to get a major solo show?
Statistics show that less than a third of the biggest exhibitions in the US go to women <br>
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Twice the size and seven storeys high: the new San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is ready for lift-off
Galleries filled with blue-chip gifts plus highlights of the Fisher Collection will greet visitors when museum reopens <br>
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An interview with Connie Butler: curator and advocate for the overlooked and under-known
As the Hammer Museum secures a donation of important collection of street photography by the Japanese artist Daido Moriyama, its chief curator speaks to us about how she’s working to build the collection and exhibition programme
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USC Seven artists get their ‘graduate’ shows in Los Angeles
New alternative space PSSST will organise exhibitions of students who dropped out of the Roski School of Art and Design MFA programme in protest last year
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US museums spent $5bn to expand as economy shrank
Glitzy buildings mean more visitors—but they could conceal a financial timebomb
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No Moore! Columbia students protest public sculpture
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British watercolourist gets private art foundation in Silicon Valley ARCHIVE
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Museums that expand get more visitors, our data analysis shows
Institutions such as the Perez Art Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art saw attendance skyrocket after extensive building work
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Leading German museum director, Max Hollein, heads to San Francisco
New director of Fine Arts Museums brings experience of running three Frankfurt institutions
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Guggenheim ramps up its Chinese art collecting with new commissions
Seven artists and collectives on tight deadline for New York show in November
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Wild at art: private art foundation dedicated to adventurer and watercolourist Tony Foster opens in Silicon Valley
The artist’s patron, the renewable energy investor Jane Woodward, has wholly backed the project
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Scholarly debate will be stifled after Knoedler
Abstract Expressionism experts forced to watch what they write and say
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New books reveal Donald Judd’s words and ideas
Deciphering artist’s scrawl was “no easy task”, says his son<br>
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Sneak peek inside the Met Breuer
The New York museum opened to the press on Tuesday with a preview of the opening exhibitions
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Three New York artists share their advice for the Met Breuer
Deborah Kass, Natalie Frank and T.J. Wilcox tell us what they would like to see the museum do in the Madison Avenue space
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Met Breuer takes the long view of contemporary art
Inaugural exhibitions at new outpost will avoid the usual suspects
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No accident: Maria Hassabi falls down gracefully at MoMA
Don’t call 9-1-1 if you spot one of the Cyprus-born choreographer’s dancers tumbled on the ground
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Director of embattled North Miami museum fired
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New programme aims to train future leaders of artist foundations
Seminar to be held in New York at the offices of influential philanthropic groups, including the Roy Lichtenstein and Joan Mitchell foundations
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The really white cube: New York’s culture groups less diverse than they think
Survey conducted by the city’s cultural affairs department finds workforce does not match up with demographics
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Long-time curator James Rondeau named director of Art Institute of Chicago
Last year, he secured the much sought-after collection of local patrons Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson for the museum
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Doctor Who star Matt Smith to play Mapplethorpe
Production on biopic, which will also feature Girls actress Zosia Mamet, will begin in the summer
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Listen up! Gardner Museum plans sound art show
Eight artist present works in the galleries, gardens and nearby train station in Boston
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Smithsonian acquires Martin Luther King portrait bust for African American history museum
A similar work sits in President Obama’s Oval Office, next to a sculpture of Abraham Lincoln
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Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital
Work is one of eight artist commissions for $276m Cleveland clinic
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Swap shop: the stories behind six objects in Pia Camil’s New Museum installation
Find out why visitors brought a glass chicken, a Mardi Gras wig, a vintage hat, a diary page, a quilt and a package of seaweed for the artist’s first solo show
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Scheme brings new art to regional museums
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Taxing times: private museums under scrutiny by US government
Who benefits most from tax breaks on private art museums: patrons or the public?