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US students and activists take creative action against gun violence
Protests included impromptu memorials to the children and adults killed in recent shootings
Performance pioneer Joan Jonas takes over Tate Modern
Survey of US artist at the London gallery includes an exhibition, performance and film programme
Fury over artist’s plan to preserve prototypes of Trump’s border wall
Others, including the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, support Christoph Büchel’s proposal to turn the eight designs into national monuments
Büchel’s feeble satire ignores the hateful reality of Trump’s wall
The petition to make the proposed border wall a National Landmark is one of the worst excesses of contemporary art and needs to be called out
A golden age in the Americas when even artists were 'spoils of war'
Indigenous peoples valued luxury objects more as tools of statecraft and for communicating with the divine than for their precious metals
Howardena Pindell, shaped by segregation in 1950s America, receives first major museum survey
Activist artist tells a “very different story about what art does in our world”
New Museum Triennial aims to deliver a message for our times
Every selected artist has a "degree of political and social engagement", curator says
Art in the age of the internet: from democracy and dialogue to a new dystopia
One of the largest historical surveys in the US traces the history of the world wide web
Lydia Ourahmane on why she made a work about her grandfather pulling all his teeth
The Algerian-British artist explores her family’s experiences living in the shadow of colonialism
Catherine Opie’s first film is right on queue
Part of Maxwell Williams' Take it to the Max
David Adjaye's Museum of African American History wins prestigious Beazley Design prize
Smithsonian institution was inaugurated by President Obama in 2016
Spotlight on… Master Drawings New York
Exhibitions to seek out at Manhattan's annual gallery trail, which now embraces paintings and sculptures
The American Dream and its powerful imagery questioned in the era of fake news
Exhibition in Germany includes works by major US artists from the 1960s until today
Native American artists garner recognition—at last
US and Canadian institutions are rethinking their approach to contemporary indigenous art
Spanish brothers implicated in sale of fakes to Knoedler & Co to be extradited
Spain have consented to sending José Carlos and Jesús Ángel Bergantiños back to the US where they can be charged
Sotheby's Cambodian smuggling saga quietly resolved out of court
The auction house returns statue and is cleared of wrongdoing as federal government drops allegations
Art Basel director Marc Spiegler confirms the fair will stay in Miami
In a meeting with the South Beach ACE, it was concluded that Miami Beach Convention Center's rebuild would not impede the progress of the annual fair
When art fought the Cold War: A touring exhibition recreates the CIA’s 1946 secret weapon that scandalised conservatives
The ill-fated collection finally comes together
Cambodian sculpture case will go to trial
Sotheby's sale halted as Cambodia demands its return
Iraq refuses to co-operate with US archaeologists unless cache of Jewish manuscripts are given back
However, operations financed by the World Monument in Babylon will not be halted
Pompidou at war with its US donors
The president of the Paris museum and chairman of its American fundraisers go head to head over expense of India show and how it raises cash in the US
Rauschenberg’s foundation could outspend Warhol’s
The artist’s foundation reveals its intention to become one of the largest grant-making organisations in the country
Possible US sanctions on Iran could create back door for commandeering of museum antiquities as damages
Persepolis tablets on loan to Chicago's Oriental Institute since the 1930s compromised in lawsuit brought by victims of Jerusalem suicide bombing
A warm welcome at Sunnylands as the favourite retreat of American presidents gets a new visitor centre
The continuing restoration of the home makes it fit for a queen (Queen Elizabeth II to be precise)
Chicago courts refuse Israel suicide bombing victims request for seizure of antiquities from US museums
Iran was gratified by the ruling that a foreign state's property in the US is exempt from such inquiries
Why American art museums are reluctant to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War
It was a different story for the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in 2009
US art sponsorship suffering after economic crisis, survey shows
Corporate giving down 14% over three years according to Business Committee for the Arts