As part of her residency at the museum, the photographer Bettina von Zwehl made portraits with New York City high school students
A temporary budget deal ended the US government shutdown on Friday, allowing state-funded arts organisations to get back to work
The same old arguments in favour of ignoring the business dealings of trustees, of pretending museum programming can function independently of those funding it, cannot stand for long
Trump's decision to station 15,000 troops at the country's southwest border has further soured political relations between the US and its South American neighbours
Galleries in New York and Los Angeles make the most of their cultural and financial capital
In a letter sent to the White House today, artists and cultural figures including Chuck Close, Kal Penn, and Jhumpa Lahiri censure President Trump for his “hateful rhetoric”
As fake news and 'fake news' takes over politics, Louise Lawler's retrospective hits home
Political and poignant, Gharem's art reflects on one of the defining moments of the 21st century
200 works are now on show which explore hot topics from the 1960s onward, from Vietnam to the AIDs crisis
Many US museums are open free to the public on 20 January as divisive president-elect takes Oath of Office
1986 tax package put the squeeze on donations
De Blasio focuses on diversity, social value and access for all
Display featuring 45 controversial artists takes on added resonance in wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks
Museums could benefit, as well as spouses who inherit works
Museums could benefit, as well as sponsors
New regulations may restrict the use of surveillance technology in their work
Anti-censorship group believes law against images of cruelty limits artistic freedoms
Turner prize-winner to take the controversial show on a three-week tour of the US in late March
The new embassy in Beijing, opening in August, will include art by Jeff Koons, Cai Guo-Qiang, Louise Bourgeois, Robert Rauschenberg, and others
Can US museums help win the war on terror?
The State Department wants to promote programmes in the Muslim world
Meanwhile, doctors form an art club and Mimran takes on Type A
Roma portraits were made by Jewish prisoner on the orders of Dr Josef Mengele
The works focus on American conservatism under the Bush administration
But California Attorney General defends freedom of speech
The Bush administration and its supporters now have their guns trained on social policy
Digital Promise non-profit will develop electronic education programmes
The boost, which will send "American masterpieces" across the US, comes more than a decade after Congress threatened to abolish the NEA for financing "objectionable" works
An American citizen is claiming six Klimts from the Nationalgalerie in Vienna alleged to have been seized from her uncle by the Nazis and then unlawfully retained by Austria after the war
Polls show the public could not care less what the art world thinks