Brooke Shields and KAWS, elves at the Morgan, plus more art world gossip

Anna Somers Cocks recalls a telling episode in her relations with the Met’s benefactor, who died on 20 April

To prevent similar high-profile losses in the future, the Met should hire a permanent, full-time provenance curator

From Alicja Kwade's rooftop solar system to Joe Minter's commanding sculptures

A reminiscence of the New York socialite, arts patron and philanthropist by Keith Christiansen, the chairman of the Met's European Paintings Department

We talk to Marc Spiegler, global director of Art Basel; discuss the forgotten artist Richard Lin; and speak to the curators of a New York exhibition on the ancient Middle East. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

The New York museum's Heavenly Bodies exhibition came first even though curator “never set out to create a hit”

Fashion continues upward trend in the US, shooting to the top of The Art Newspaper's chart, while the British Museum slips from the top spot in the UK

From the "computer cowgirl" Gretchen Bender to Girault de Prangey's haunting snapshots of the past

From a meditation on power to female sexual awakening

A wave of innovative exhibition design has graced our museums in recent years. What are the keys to holding the viewer’s gaze?

From a view of the West from China, to Carol Rama's weird works made with dolls eyes

In the first part of a new series, Adrian Ellis looks at the increased public scrutiny of museum boards in the social media age

The São Paulo collector James Kung Wei Li, whose father was a Chinese ambassador in South America, says the donation is his family’s repayment for American educational largesse

Describing itself as a victim of fraud, museum says it cooperated with district attorney's investigation

Pain held demonstrations at the Guggenheim and the Met over the weekend

Teams produce five digital prototypes for acquainting people with images of museum objects online

Exhibition at the Met Breuer argues that the Italian-Argentinian's early sculptures and decorative pieces inspired his works to come

Their family’s support “began decades before the opioid crisis” says president and CEO Daniel Weiss

The new Greek and Roman curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum should rejuvenate its displays with honest, better stories

From cross-cultural pollination in Armenia's Christian art to a pagan awakening

The museum will mark its anniversary in 2020 by launching a renovation of the Rockefeller Wing and celebrating its permanent collection

She calls on museum to incorporate misogyny into the art historical narrative

The Association on American Indian Affairs says the "first mistake was to call these objects art" and that tribal representatives should have been consulted

Hollein took Campbell's old job as director of the Met

Sheena Wagstaff says the move is part of a “positive, forward-thinking” new regime under Max Hollein’s directorship

Conservator calls in master storyteller to decipher shamanic object

Curator returns to the UK where he organised the blockbuster 2011 Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London