Last week’s decision to reject an appeal over the ownership of Picasso’s The Actor was a missed opportunity to clarify the limitations of the 2016 HEAR Act

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

From the Met Breuer’s final exhibition, devoted to Gerhard Richter, to Jonathan Berger’s love letters at Participant Inc

This exhibition catalogue shows European technological discoveries from the 16th to the 19th century

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a pot by an African-American slave to the earliest depiction of Highland dress

From Cauleen Smith’s feminist films at the Whitney to Rodney McMillian’s conceptual landscapes at Petzel Gallery

Installation weaves a 400-year narrative with global and sometimes dark threads

From the first US retrospective devoted to the pioneering female photographer Madame d’Ora to an immersive Joan Miró experience at Acquavella Galleries

As Frieze Los Angeles opens, we look at the LA art scene. Plus, we explore the Met's exhibition Sahel about art from the Sahara. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793

The latest commission for the Met's Great Hall continues the New York institution's upending of the colonial-settler narrative of American history

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from an "erotic" depiction of Adam to a masterpiece by a female French painter

From the Morgan’s ode to the French symbolist Alfred Jarry to overlooked paintings by a feminist pioneer at James Fuentes Gallery

After more than a year in his new job, we interview the director about his priorities

From a sweeping survey of American Indian contemporary art to historical photographs at the Met

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections—from a rising star of Weimar-era Berlin to a Bohemian Virgin and Child

Lead curator says relaunch next spring is timely as "the UK is reassessing its role on the European and global stage”

From Artemisia to Abramović, Old Masters to Olmecs, and Richter to Roman antiquities—here are next year's must-see shows

From Kent Monkman’s Met commission to radiant 1960s paintings at the Guggenheim

Our pick of the gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections in 2019

We look back at the biggest stories of the year

Demonstrators demand that V&A director Tristram Hunt drops Sackler name

From Rachel Feinstein’s first survey at The Jewish Museum to a superlative collection of drawings and prints at the Met

From European paintings to the decorative arts, the patron and her oil tycoon husband, who both served as trustees for decades, gave the New York museum more than 1,275 works in all

Show, timed to spring gala, will analyse “the temporal twists and turns of fashion history”

From Alexandre Singh's dark thriller at Metro Pictures to entrancing etchings at the Met, the best shows to see this Halloween weekend

A Met exhibition explores fraught acquisitions in museum collections with the aim of kickstarting new conversations

Sandra Jackson-Dumont will take over in January as leader of George Lucas’s $1bn project in Los Angeles

From Betye Saar’s mysticism at MoMA to the first retrospective dedicated to conceptual photographer Duane Michals at the Morgan Library and Museum

Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art charts the evolution of etching through Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden