The Manhattan District Attorney’s office ordered the seizure of works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museums and Allen Memorial Art Museum

More than 500 workers at the institutions will get raises over 12%

It will be on long-term loan from the Illinois State Museum while its current home, the Thompson Center, is converted into Google offices

A survey show at the Art Institute of Chicago brings together the Spanish Mexican artist’s extraordinary paintings and reveals new insights about their creation

Only one photograph of Vincent as an adult survives, drinking at a riverside café—but he turns his back on the camera

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

The curators of his first US museum survey will not talk about the show, honouring his wishes not to interpret his artwork

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The former employee faces four federal charges over an alleged fraud scheme that went on for 13 years

The Van Gogh Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary—and everyone is invited

Ahead of Tate Modern’s Cézanne blockbuster exhibition, we investigate the two artists' links

Plus, the Cezanne blockbuster at The Art Institute of Chicago and Nicola L.’s Gold Femme Commode at Alison Jacques

If successful, they would join staff at the school and its namesake museum who voted overwhelmingly in favour of unionising in January

With the arts sector increasingly vulnerable in the wake of the pandemic, a new breed of digitally optimised worker is emerging

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees will now represent 266 employees at the museum and another 249 at the school

"His energy is antagonistic to everything we do in the museum world"

As a survey show opens in Chicago, the US artist discusses the political urgency of her work, her response to rip-offs, and her desire to let the work speak for her

The new year's must-see shows include Vermeer and Botticelli blockbusters; major Jasper Johns and Yayoi Kusama retrospectives; and sweeping surveys on Iran, slavery and queer art

The decision has divided members, but there are hopes the work might stay in the Windy City

Move by Washington, DC museums comes amid a wave of new US closures

Cuts come as US museums slash costs in response to loss of revenue

Experts embrace a blend of remote monitoring and on-site tours, while marvelling at diminished levels of dust

Institutions like the National Gallery of Art and the Guggenheim remain open but alert to potential for closing as confirmed cases of Covid-19 rise

The museum’s director James Rondeau on why the institution is bringing Barcelona architects Barozzi Veiga on board to rethink the whole campus

The weaving workshop was “an incubator of aesthetic and pedagogical talent”

The artist’s new series of nocturnal photographs, on show at the Art Institute of Chicago, vividly imagine the kinds of scenes escaping slaves might have seen

From a Tschabalala Self painting donated to the Art Institute of Chicago to Goshka Macuga's commission the Norwegian parliament

We asked directors of prominent US institutions what they can or should do