The stelae, on loan from Guatemala, feature life-sized depictions of ancient Indigenous leaders

From the Met’s survey of women photographers to Wong Ping’s dark films at the New Museum

Instagram is sponsoring the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Met Gala for the first time this year. Could this be a marriage made in heaven?

Plus, Rania Matar's photographic portraits

Chronicling the work of female photographers from the 1920s to the 1950s, a show organised with the National Gallery of Art breaks significant ground

From Huguette Caland at The Drawing Center to the last week to visit the Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

The Benin Court plaques donated in 1991 with more than 150 other works, have been deaccessioned, while a third object, an Ife Head offered for purchase, will instead be restituted

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

Museum says the move is intended to promote “truthful narratives” and promote social change

The two-part exhibition invokes the upheaval of the past year and will be accompanied by an "intimate" gala this September and then a more expansive benefit next May

Others welcome the change while scrutinising their Covid-19 safety procedures

From Yayoi Kusama in the Bronx to Alex Da Corte's Big Bird on the Met Roof

From Alice Neel at the Met to an ode to the first Black woman astronaut by Damien Davis

Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events

We asked the people behind the Royal Academy’s Twitter, the Met’s Instagram, the Uffizi’s TikTok and the Van Gogh Museum’s Facebook account what 2020 was like for them

The Art Newspaper's annual survey shows how the pandemic had a devastating impact on museums around the world—but there were some silver linings

The survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will shed light on Neel’s recurring subjects, from family members and lovers to the bohemians and activists she collaborated with

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections

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

This urgent and timely show of the Spanish master's works on paper illuminates the artist’s dim view of humanity and his extraordinary imagination

Museums now appeal for information on three unlocated panels in the artist’s 1950s Struggle series

Artist’s installation, delayed for months by Covid-19, playfully engages with the museum’s classical architecture

Max Hollein argues that more art will not necessarily be sold, although proceeds can now go to other purposes amid the pandemic financial crisis

Students talk about their career goals and how being compensated proved to be an incentive

Sculptural installation will plumb the possibility of hope amid the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic

Formed a peerless photography collection for the J Paul Getty Museum and curated the landmark 1989 Royal Academy exhibition to mark 150 years of the art form

As museum mulls art sales to finance collections care, critics worry that its example could open the floodgates for US art institutions

Our expert panel of artists and storytellers review extended reality exhibitions and events

Portraits date from 1969, a pivotal point for an artist departing from conventional motifs