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‘We are down here fighting for our lives’: Texas exhibition highlights crackdowns on reproductive healthcare and abortion access

Focusing on works by artists with ties to the American South, “Is It Real?” raises awareness and funds for reproductive rights for communities on the front lines

Beeple unveils generative work with an urgent environmental message

The sale of the work, unveiled at Italian Tech Week, supports non-profit initiatives like food justice and the protection of millions of acres of land and sea

Sustainability organisation Gallery Climate Coalition shuts down volunteer programme, citing a lack of funds

The initiative included chapters in seven cities and countries forming one of the art world’s largest climate networks

Tree-planting project memorialising Black lives lost brings 40,000 trees to urban centres across the US

The community-driven living monument from MIT Media Lab’s Poetic Justice will include an evolving, digitally networked story archive

‘You’re right! This is Native land’: New site-specific sculptures in Maine centre Indigenous experiences and relationships with the land

At the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, sculptures by Anna Tsouhlarakis and Shane Perley-Dutcher are part of a push to advocate for environmental and social justice

The Broad will reimagine a famed Joseph Beuys reforestation project

Inspired by '7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks)' and organised in conjunction with PST Art, the initiative coincides with a major solo show of the artist’s work

A new art fair will arrive in the Berkshires in 2025

The Arrival Art Fair will hold its inaugural edition in June 2025 at Tourists, the popular hotel in North Adams, Massachusetts

Oyster sculptures and whale songs: exhibition on Governors Island explores the role of extraction in climate change

Jenny Kendler’s multidisciplinary project seeks kinship between humans and other animals

Sprawling new cultural hub takes shape in Detroit

Little Village arts campus, including church transformed into an exhibition space and a skatepark, aims to bolster Detroit’s cultural scene

‘Iron fist in a velvet glove’: Detroit public sculpture tracks air quality and cleans the polluted environment

A new regenerative installation by Jordan Weber raises awareness of environmental racism

'Empty promises': art on Queens College campus in New York has languished in damaged state for decades

Staff allege that ongoing systemic issues have left the institution's art collection at risk—well before the City University of New York system could blame it all on lack of public funding

‘Once you know the history, you see it everywhere’: Nona Faustine on uncovering New York’s uncomfortable past

At the Brooklyn Museum, the American photographer’s self-portraits reveal the city’s links to colonialism and slavery that were largely erased

How a gallery scene is quietly blossoming in New York’s Flower District

Galleries and non-profits are finding meaningful connections with collectors and artists off Manhattan’s beaten path

Fifteen exhibitions to see in New York this spring

From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine

Boston science museum brings climate action to the fore with year-long initiative

Year of the Earthshot features more than 1,000 interdisciplinary programmes that explore climate solutions, from immersive exhibitions to a project with Unesco and four World Heritage Sites—and an online cooking show

Dia Art Foundation embarks on landscape transformation to make Beacon campus climate resilient

Studio Zewde is redesigning eight acres of the property on the banks of the Hudson River to protect against rising water

New book celebrates collector Eileen Harris Norton’s role in shaping Los Angeles's art scene

Norton, who is also the co-founder of the non-profit Art + Practice, has championed the work of women artists and artists of colour in the city

Black museums face greater peril in the climate crisis

The Association of African American Museums outlines heightened issues facing Black cultural centres, including old infrastructure, coastal locations and lack of access to funds and resources

Cauleen Smith exhibition mines the damage done by mineral extraction

Artist says she wants visitors to imagine a world where caves ares seen as places of shelter, rather than places of mineral extraction

Anne Duk Hee Jordan: ‘We live on a very old, grumpy, fragile planet’

At The Bass, the interdisciplinary artist explores weather and technology in her first US solo show

Twelve must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week

From major solo shows of Sasha Gordon, Nam June Paik and Juan Francisco Elso to exhibitions around themes of food, magic and mystical animals

Maya used aquatic plants in sustainable water purification system, study suggests

New research has revealed the clean-water secret of Classic Maya reservoirs

Swim-through underwater sculptures in the Caribbean aim to draw attention to perilous state of the oceans

Doug Aitken is creating a series of large-scale works will be moored off the coast of St Barts

International organisations form charter for a sustainable visual art sector

The new Art Charter for Climate Action unites over 1,000 global members committed to system-wide change

South African gallery Southern Guild opening a permanent space in Los Angeles

The Cape Town-based art and design gallery will inaugurate its Los Angeles location in February of 2024

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Indigenous collective’s ‘World’s UnFair’ in New York imagines a decolonised future

New Red Order’s Long Island City project turns the models of past World’s Fairs on their heads

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Doug Aitken video about consequences of human and animal migration greets travellers at New Jersey train station

Presented by the Princeton University Art Museum, “migration (empire)” speaks to the rising risks of climate change and displacement

Excavations for Magazzino Italian Art’s expansion allowed the centre to finally create a rare Michelangelo Pistoletto Land Art piece

The outdoor installation, conceived in 2003 but never executed until now, was unveiled on the Italian artist’s 90th birthday

David Adjaye creates his first permanent public sculpture at St Louis museum

The rammed earth sculpture at the Griot Museum of Black History was commissioned as part of Counterpublic triennial

A maritime museum shifts its focus to ocean health

The Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut is foregrounding ocean ecology in its first contemporary art exhibition, with new commissions by American painter Alexis Rockman