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Artists’ homes and work destroyed in California wildfires
It was not just Malibu’s celebrities who lost their property in the Woolsey Fire that ravaged the beachside community
The mid-term elections brought many gains for progressive causes—but there is still work to be done
The artist Martha Rosler, whose politically focussed work is on view at New York’s Jewish Museum, explains what we can take away from this week’s Democratic wins
Holy grail of folk ceramics made by 19th-century snake handler breaks auction record
The “snake jug” shattered the previous record for Anna Pottery, a niche favourite of Americana collectors
When the avant-garde met E=mc2: the story behind Dimensionism
Supported by prominent figures in its day, the little known movement is at last being rescued from obscurity
US museums are too white, and this paid internship programme hopes to change that
Ten museums across America will participate in an inaugural project launched by the Association of Art Museum Directors
Warhol's newly restored 102-canvas work Shadows goes on show in New York
Dia's presentation coincides with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s retrospective on the artist
Highlights from Duke of Orléans collection brought together for 300th birthday of New Orleans
Exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art will include works by Veronese, Reni and Rubens
Pittsburgh’s Carnegie International is a DIY (Do Interpret Yourself) exhibition
The show’s curator Ingrid Schaffner has avoided an ill-fitting theme and allowed the art to speak for itself—sometimes this works and sometimes it does not
Family reunited: US exhibition brings together the pieces of cut-up 17th-century Frans Hals portrait
Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio shows three paintings confirmed as one original work by recent conservation
High Museum of Art’s new galleries honour their public
Non-white visitors have jumped from 15% to half of the museum’s attendance in just three years
Artists join forces in bid to swing US midterm elections
Artist-run organisation For Freedoms’ country-wide initiative is a rallying point—even in right-leaning states
Metropolitan Museum of Art reclassifies status of Native American art for new exhibition
Donor of artefacts asked New York museum to present them as "American art rather than tribal art"
US fairs help bring new blood to Tefaf Maastricht
The success of Tefaf New York Spring this year marked a sea-change
Can’t get tickets for Hamilton: the Musical? See the exhibition instead
A new exhibition about the Broadway show opens in April 2019
Expo Chicago grows but local dealers drop out
While international exhibitor numbers are up again, the Midwest collectors base proves elusive
Hairy who? The group that put a spell on the 1960s Chicago art scene
Art Institute of Chicago hosts first major survey of the loose artist collective
Glenstone’s giant $200m expansion is ready, but will visitors come?
Collectors’ private museum, scrutinised by US Senate for limited access, could draw 100,000 people a year
San Francisco show celebrates diversity of Muslim fashion
As debates on the burqa rage worldwide, De Young Museum exhibition explores complexities and range of Islamic dress
From assassinations to CIA mind control: new show investigates how artists tackle conspiracy theories
Met Breuer exhibition, of works made over the past 50 years, feels timely in the age of fake news
Rembrandt the master printmaker—and shrewd market manipulator
Denver Art Museum's exhibition of the Old Master's prints looks at how he intentionally made “rarities” for his collectors
Dia turns the spotlight on female Land Art pioneer Nancy Holt
New York show recreates 1970s installations that inspired her best known work
Culture Pass has New Yorkers reaching for their library cards—but demand is exceeding supply
New scheme offering free tickets to some of the city’s most popular museums had thousands of responses
Is this the future of catalogues raisonnés?
A new online database of Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings offers a template for a more up-to-date—and richer—resource
Canada struggles with monuments tied to colonialism
Echoing a conflict in the US, the nation contends with calls to remove controversial memorials
Statues are part of history, but do a poor job of recording it
Monuments tell us more about those who set them up than those they represent, says Classics professor Matthew Sears
‘A critical juncture’: Richard Koshalek on MOCA’s future under Klaus Biesenbach
The Los Angeles museum’s longest-serving director shares his recommendations for its newly appointed leader
Naked 'clown Trump' statue installed on Los Angeles billboard
In their latest project, the guerrilla group Indecline compares the US president to serial killer John Wayne Gacy
Why arts journalism matters: because art matters
Even in arts journalism, one can see the effects of President Trump's inflammatory rhetoric against the press
Martin Puryear to represent US at Venice Biennale
The Madison Square Park Conservancy will organise the installation for the US pavilion