Next Stop: Chicago will focus on infrastructure inequality after Covid

Evan Vucci’s instinctive composition recalls some famous art of the past, but its real importance may only be felt in the future

Mayor Eric Adams and the city council restored $53m in funding for public programming last month

Ari Emanuel is the latest important Democratic donor to criticise Biden since his age and mental fitness were called into question during a debate against Donald Trump

"We were long a society of fun and sun, but we’re no longer that—we don’t want that," he said.

The museum recently purchased the 1840s daguerreotype of Dolley Madison at auction

The mayor of Jersey City says the move to scuttle the Paris museum's first US location was politically motivated

The $112.4bn municipal budget for the coming fiscal year also restored $58m in critical funding for the city’s three library systems

The artist Sandy Williams IV’s wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial melted during the East Coast heat wave

Museums and other cultural institutions will lose out on millions in promised grants that were originally in the state budget before it was sent to DeSantis to sign

The Artists For Democracy 2024 project is working with world-renowned artists including Shepard Fairey and Carrie Mae Weems to mobilise voters

Chat logs from a private WhatsApp group created by billionaire Barry Sternlicht were leaked to the Washington Post last week

In a time of increased lawsuits over diversity initiatives, a civil rights organisation aims to make the history and legacy of slavery in the US undeniable through art and first-person narratives

Between days of testimony by Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star who claims she had sex with Trump in 2006, the former president is meeting NFT collectors at Mar-a-Lago

New US government data report shows cultural industries accounted for 4.3% of national economic activity in 2022, though some sectors struggled to surpass pre-pandemic figures

A new bill could create a commission to assess the feasibility of adding the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History to the Smithsonian family

Ambos (Art Made Between Opposite Sides) has been working with communities on both sides of the US-Mexico border for nearly a decade

Doug Argue’s exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum last year was not accompanied by the book that inspired it due to sensitivities Argue likened to “book banning”

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee questioned New York art dealer Georges Bergès this week about representing US President Joe Biden’s son

Once dubbed “the art world’s patron satan”, the gallerist is hoping to take the Californian seat formerly held by the late Dianne Feinstein

While some may have preferred an endearing photo of a Minnesotan’s dog for the new flag, Andrew Prekker’s winning design is widely popular

Now that a judge lifted a last-minute injunction, the monument will be gone by the end of the week

It’s the first physical iteration of the El Paso and Juárez exhibition in five years, after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 edition

The Florida governor’s recent education reforms are damaging arts and humanities programmes across the state—but educators and students are fighting back

The Florida governor's proposed budget for the the next fiscal year includes some provisions for museums—and continuing to transport undocumented migrants to Democratic states

Kissinger, one of the most photographed men of his time, with an instantly recognisable pair of spectacles, was a powerful graphic gift to artists including Philip Guston

The No Fakes Act has been proposed by four US Senators and garnered support from organisations representing creative industries

The bill, currently under review by Mayor Eric Adams's administration, renews conversations about the role of public statues that lionise America's history of slavery

The Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art are making plans for continuing operations amid a government shutdown that appears increasingly likely

The activist art collective is bringing an installation of its work and a series of workshops to the Format festival in Bentonville