Plus, the damage to heritage in Italy following the devastating floods and Ellsworth Kelly's Spectrum work

Hannah Gadsby's take on the (in)famous artist at the Brooklyn Museum is all about engaging in difficult dialogues, says the museum's director Anne Pasternak

'There’s not a billionaire on this planet that is not fucked up,' says the Nanette comic

Members of the museum’s union, who have been in negotiations with administration over their first contract for more than a year, handed out leaflets to attendees arriving for the annual Artists Ball

The Brooklyn Museum maintains two rooftop beehives, and several more New York museums are joining the apiculture craze

Sanzgiri will present a segment of a forthcoming feature-length film at the museum within an installation incorporating sculptural and archival materials

The exhibition will address the issues of "misogyny, masculinity, creativity, and ‘genius’" that Gadsby raised in her celebrated Netflix special "Nanette"

The approximately $9m project included modernising 20,000 sq. ft of galleries and bringing key objects out of storage for public display for the first time

Unionised workers lined the main entryway to the museum as visitors arrived for after-hours programming

A traveling Abloh retrospective’s first posthumous iteration, at the Brooklyn Museum, encapsulates the visionary artist and designer’s vast oeuvre

From Genesis P-Orridge at Pioneer Works to Louise Bourgeois at the Met, our pick of the best exhibitions in the city this week

From Deana Lawson at MoMA PS1 to Kyle Staver at Half Gallery

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

The $25,000 prize includes a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and a public commission for the exterior of the UOVO warehouse in Bushwick

The work, dedicated to incarcerated women on Rikers Island, was completed in 1972 and was once almost completely destroyed

Trueblood, who will replace David Berliner early next year, has a background in government and public service

The portraits of former President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and former First Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald continue their national tour in New York

Represented by a UAW local, curators, conservators, educators and others at the New York institution will now seek to negotiate a contract with management

Two decades after one of the most controversial exhibitions of recent times, Arnold Lehman, the former director of the Brooklyn Museum, reveals all in a new book

The labour chapter would represent 130 curators, conservators, front-desk staff and others

We asked art institutions around the country about their efforts to diversify their workforces, exhibition programmes, permanent collections and audiences

He is a global brand, but can a museum show lend Brian Donnelly’s art any credibility?

At a conference on deaccessioning, Christopher Bedford says that museum collections are “a literal manifestation” of prejudice and privilege

From Lorraine O’Grady’s first museum retrospective to Carol Bove’s Met façade commission

As works head to market, organisation reminds members that its relaxed rules were not adopted to “incentivise” art sales

From UOVO Prize winner John Edmonds at the Brooklyn Museum to Michelangelo Pistoletto at Lévy Gorvy

After netting $4.2m for a Cranach, the museum plans to sell off works by Monet, Dubuffet, Degas, Miró and Matisse

Murals, photographs and films by the French artist from past two decades will explore issues such as immigration and gun control

Financial aid will help eight institutions “disrupt dominant narratives” and “build back a more equitable culture” after Covid lockdown

The institution is deaccessioning its only Cranach and 11 other works to finance care of its collection