PreviewExhibitions
How a method of armour decorating in 16th-century Germany spawned a new printmaking technique
Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art charts the evolution of etching through Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden
NewsAcquisitions
New York's Morgan Library receives ‘transformational’ trove of manuscripts and bindings
Bequest comes from New York collector Jayne Wrightsman, who amassed an 18th-century library to complement her celebrated French furnishings
NewsOpenings
Ruby City: collector Linda Pace's dream museum becomes reality in Texas
Wizard of Oz vision inspires new $15m contemporary art centre in San Antonio designed by David Adjaye
NewsConservation
Expert finds lost dress of Queen Elizabeth I in English village church
Rare 16th-century fabric to go on show at Hampton Court Palace after three-year study
PreviewExhibitions
A New York salute to Rube Goldberg and his outlandish contraptions
Queens Museum celebrates a cartoonist who seems more relevant than ever
NewsExhibitions
MoMA will celebrate reopening with six site-specific works in its public spaces
Installations range from Haim Steinbach’s phrases and slogans to Yoko Ono’s blue sky
NewsUnions
New Museum and union reach agreement on a contract
After a strike threat, a marathon bargaining session results in an average pay increase of 8% for full-time employees
NewsConservation & Preservation
Grant will help restore two long-lost frescoes in San Francisco
The project contrasts with a decision to cover up a controversial 1930s school mural in the same city
NewsUnions
New Museum employees vote to strike if no agreement is reached with management
Saying the two sides are sharply at odds, workers vote 69 to 3 in favour of a strike should progress prove elusive
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met Breuer’s Vija Celmins retrospective to Kehinde Wiley’s first public sculpture
NewsLooted art
Looted coffin acquired by Metropolitan Museum is headed back to Egypt
US and Egyptian officials presided over handover at a repatriation ceremony in New York
NewsConservation & Preservation
Poignant online videos showcase 20 sites from Alabama’s civil rights era
World Monuments Fund joins partners in launching an oral history project
NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
Park Service report warns that Trump's border fence could harm archaeological sites
Experts worry that artefacts would be in peril if a 30-ft-high steel barrier is built
NewsConservation & Preservation
Getty plans sweeping $100m initiative to promote the world’s cultural heritage
Projects will range from exhibitions about the classical world to conservation and excavations and a book about “heritage and mass atrocities”
NewsConservation & Preservation
Probing nine paintings, conservators in Amsterdam unlock Chagall’s secrets
Research project at the Stedelijk Museum sheds light on some of the artist’s techniques
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Laser scan may one day aid Notre Dame’s restorers
A 2010-12 effort to map every inch of the cathedral could help the post-fire reconstruction
PreviewExhibitions
Drawing, singing, sleeping, eating, changing costumes: Nikhil Chopra’s nine-day campout at the Met
Moving from gallery to gallery like a nomadic traveller, the performance artist-in-residence will morph into a series of personae
NewsExhibitions
Columbia University exhibition retells the story of America by foregrounding 'black genius'
Featuring archival documents, vintage images and contemporary art, 20 and Odd aims to correct a narrative about a nation's power and identity
NewsLaw
‘Completely unacceptable’: Nan Goldin attacks proposed settlement in opioid crisis
Artist says the reported deal is a cynical attempt to avoid significant restitution
NewsProtests
Artist Nan Goldin and other activists arrested during opioid protest at New York governor’s office
Campaigners known for museum protests accuse Andrew Cuomo of not doing enough to halt drug deaths
NewsLaw
Sacklers in talks over multibillion-dollar settlement of opioid crisis lawsuits
Proposed settlement calls for family's company Purdue Pharma to file for bankruptcy and become a public trust distributing profits
PreviewExhibitions
From lantern slides to racist caricatures, the Walker showcases Theaster Gates the collector
Chicago artist strives for a poetic “resurrection” of African American stories in a solo show in Minneapolis
PreviewExhibitions
A Frank Lloyd Wright synagogue transformed
An immersive installation will fuse music, tapestries, video and orchids
NewsConservation & Preservation
New York Public Library shores up its marble lions
Two-month conservation effort for the sculptures follows a public appeal to donors
NewsConservation & Preservation
San Francisco school board votes to preserve but conceal a controversial mural
Its 4-3 decision reverses an earlier vote to paint over a 1930s work that some parents and board members found racist and damaging to students
NewsExhibitions
In highly personal portraits, an artist speaks up for his native Baltimore
Painted before Donald Trump disparaged the city, Derrick Adams's new works celebrate family life there
News US politics
African American leaders object to erasure of controversial school mural in San Francisco
Local figures defend portrayal of the nation’s blemished early history
NewsInterviews
In the rescued Johnson archive, poignant images from black American history
How four institutions swooped in to acquire four million images
NewsMuseums
Baltimore Museum of Art dedicates a year of exhibitions to women
From Georgia O’Keeffe to Mickalene Thomas, museum will aim to address diversity gaps
NewsMuseums & Heritage
For its centennial, Oriental Institute weds ancient artefacts with contemporary art
Three artists enter a dialogue with Middle Eastern antiquities at the University of Chicago
NewsMuseums
Baltimore Museum of Art to create a Matisse study centre
Museum will draw on its 1,200 works by the artist to help further scholarship
NewsArt market
New York thrift store find turns out to be valuable Schiele drawing
Work found at a Habitat for Humanity shop is estimated to be worth as much as $200,000
NewsArt market
Two shareholders seek to block Sotheby’s purchase by BidFair
Lawsuits argue that information filed to the SEC is inadequate
NewsMuseums
With Jean Pigozzi's contemporary African art donation, MoMA to become a 'leader' in the field
The museum says the gift will play an important role in the reconfiguration of its permanent collection
NewsLaw
Collector says he was duped into selling Brancusi sculpture
He seeks $200m in damages from lawyer who he says "hoodwinked" him
NewsConservation
A Wall Street lobby restored to its former glory
A vast Art Deco mosaic celebrates the artistry of its overlooked creator
Podcast
Top of the Pods: the world of Warhol, as told by Jeremy Deller and Donna De Salvo
With the Pop artist's blockbuster retrospective currently on show at SFMoMA, we delve into the life and legacy of the ever-popular painter with artist Jeremy Deller and curator Donna De Salvo. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
AnalysisAntiquities & Archaeology
A Getty lifeline for classical mosaics in the Middle East and North Africa
As the Getty winds down its decade-long Mosaikon project, it leaves behind a legacy of expertise in a region threatened by looting and political unrest
NewsConservation & Preservation
Microsoft aims to harness AI for heritage projects
From languages to historic artefacts, the company will use technology to preserve and celebrate traditional cultures
NewsLooted art
US authorities file criminal charges against antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor and seven others
The government’s complaint outlines a massive alleged smuggling ring involving other dealers, art restorers and associates who helped create false provenances for looted objects
NewsConservation & Preservation
Going undercover: Scotland's leaky Mackintosh treasure shielded by 197-tonne chainmail box
Hill House in Helensburgh has been covered to protect it from the rain while National Trust makes conservation plans
NewsBuilding projects
New Museum unveils Rem Koolhaas design for addition
Building to rise next door that will double the museum’s exhibition space
NewsAppointments & departures
MoMA PS1 hires former Garage Museum curator as its director
Kate Fowle, known as a champion of artists and curatorial innovation, succeeds Klaus Biesenbach
NewsConservation & Preservation
Getty shores up Peruvian church in an earthquake zone
The preservation project could serve as a prototype for saving other earthen buildings
NewsConservation & Preservation
Conservators restore Africa’s first animated film in colour
Nigerien pioneer Moustapha Alassane’s stop-motion work Samba the Great is being screened in Bologna
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Hito Steyerl's Park Avenue Armory takeover to Simone Leigh's commanding Plinth commission
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Donna De Salvo steps down as Whitney senior curator
After organising popular shows like a Warhol retrospective, she resigns to “pursue other interests’’
NewsEconomics
Sizing up salaries in the visual arts world
A US survey compares compensation for employees by age, job type and education level
PreviewExhibitions
Can art bring the walls down? Washington DC show explores the migrant experience
Exhibition at the Phillips Collection is curated by Massimiliano Gioni and will include works by Arshile Gorky, Mona Hatoum and Vija Celmins
NewsObituaries
Robert Therrien, whose outsize art teetered between fantasy and reality, has died at 71
The artist delved into quotidian objects like a 10-foot-high kitchen table
NewsArtists
Artist to install earthwork calling attention to immigration and human trafficking
Trail of red sand will be visible to travellers in flight and on the ground in Seattle
NewsLaw
Artist's copyright infringement suit heads to US Supreme Court
North Carolina used film director’s images without obtaining his permission or compensating him
NewsConservation & Preservation
Conservation project channels thinking of Angkor’s original builders
World Monuments Fund completes restoration of the eastern half of Phnom Bakheng temple
NewsHeritage
Gaudi’s Sagrada Família secures building permit—137 years later
A deal between the city and the church foundation aims to complete construction work on the architect’s quixotic final project
NewsLaw
US Supreme Court declines to hear appeal on Nazi-looted art
Norton Simon Museum can keep two Lucas Cranach masterpieces
NewsSackler family
The Met says it will stop accepting gifts from Sacklers associated with Purdue Pharma
The museum cites recent lawsuits tied to the US opioid crisis in its decision to decline future donations from the family
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Confessions of a dealer: Esther Kim Varet
We talk to Esther Kim Varet, the founder of the Los Angeles (and now, Seoul) gallery Various Small Fires about the art world, a pet peeve and the next big thing
PreviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Winogrand's little-known colour photographs to Miró's mammoth canvas
NewsMonuments
Virginia judge rules that two Confederate statues in Charlottesville are war memorials
City Council members seeking to remove them argued that they were actually monuments to white supremacy
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Confessions of a dealer: Sam Gordon
We talk to Sam Gordon, co-founder of the New York gallery Gordon Robichaux, about his art-world enthusiasms and words to live by
News
Many Whitney Biennial artists sign letter calling for museum vice chairman's removal
Letter cites Warren B. Kanders's role in company that manufactured tear gas used at US border
InterviewFrieze New York 2019
Lauren Halsey brings the spirit of South Central LA to Frieze New York
Artist dedicates installation to Nipsey Hussle, the slain rapper and neighbourhood activist
NewsRestitution
Italian prosecutor claims Medieval missal in Morgan Library was stolen from parish church
Official argues that its return could help boost tourism in an area that has suffered economically from earthquake damage
PreviewExhibitions
Twelve exhibitions not to miss during Frieze New York
From the Leipzig School artist Neo Rauch at the Drawing Center, to Nari Ward at the New Museum, there's plenty to see around New York City during Frieze
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Notre Dame: experts explain why Macron's five-year restoration deadline is impossible
Complex conservation issues mean it could easily take a decade or more to rebuild the Medieval cathedral
NewsConservation & Preservation
Nancy Holt’s desert Sun Tunnels will be cleaned and repaired—but the bullet marks are staying
The artist considered the streaks left by gunfire to be part of the Land Art work's evolution
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alicja Kwade's rooftop solar system to Joe Minter's commanding sculptures