From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions

The museum has responded to accusations that its collection includes looted artefacts by creating its largest research arm to date

X-ray technology has revealed that a hidden man in the background of 'A Maid Asleep' is holding a paintbrush

The chandeliers made from repurposed plastic bottles are similar to sculptures Cole has been making and showing for a decade

The red carpet delivered countless interpretations of the late designer’s iconic wardrobe and his treasured Birman cat, Choupette

The fashion designer’s fantastical sketches are given equal billing with the dresses that made him famous

For the New York installation, the Californian artist has carved onto a concrete pavilion references to Afrofuturism and funk music and images of her family and friends

The artist has been commissioned to create a work for the museum’s main entryway that will incorporate 3D scans of more than 100 objects in the Met’s collection

Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez

The repatriation comes after a report found more than 1,000 works linked to suspected or convicted traffickers in the museum’s collection

Although the artist is best known as the subject of a portrait by his master, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will shine a light on his life and career

The New York institution, usually the most popular art museum in the US, was overtaken in 2022 by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

A new report claims New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has many items in its collection with major provenance issues

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

A new memoir by Patrick Bringley details what it was like to work as a guard at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam now describes the abstract painter as Ukrainian, while The Met reclassifies other painters who were born or worked in the country

Plus, the Met: a guard’s memoir and Hubert Robert at Stockholm's Nationalmuseum

The repatriated artefacts were looted by an international network of “high-profile antiquities traffickers and smugglers, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office

We uncover the tangled tale of the painting controversially sold off by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 and now in an Athens museum

Guatemalan law prohibits the export of such artefacts for exhibition, local culture organisations say

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

The heirs of a Jewish collector who fled Germany in the 1930s claim that well-documented provenance issues with the painting “La cueillette des olives” have been overlooked by the museum and the Greek foundation that now owns it

Some of the works from the collection, which will go on view next year, are featured in the controversial traveling retrospective devoted to Guston

New York’s Met plans a major show opening next May, with some of his greatest landscapes of Provence

A major exhibition next year will survey the artist’s fascination with the undulating trees

The philanthropist Adrienne Arsht is a longtime supporter of the museum and performing arts programmes nationwide

An ongoing investigation into White's collection expects to see more objects repatriated in the future

The Greek state is now the sole owner of the artefacts but all 161 pieces will be on a 25-year loan to the Met from January 2024

Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York

Masterpieces amassed in Renaissance England are brought together in an exhibition freed from expectations to tell a “hallowed national narrative”