SFMoMA fires contemporary art curator Eungie Joo amid misconduct allegations
Joo had joined the museum in 2017 as its first contemporary art curator and most recently organised an ambitious project by Kara Walker
Robert Smithson’s famed Land art piece Spiral Jetty added to US National Register of Historic Places
The 1,500ft-long, coiling earthwork in Utah’s Great Salt Lake is arguably the best known example of Land art
Lorraine O’Grady, conceptual artist who dissected language and dualities, has died, aged 90
O’Grady, who devoted herself to art in her early forties, spent the ensuing decades making incisive works that spanned photography, collage, performance and more
Polychrome 17th-century statue that was stolen from a church in 2007 is returned to Mexico
The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery
President Biden establishes national monument acknowledging history of forced assimilation at Native American boarding schools
The monument, at the site of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, will ensure nobody forgets one of the “most horrific chapters in American history”, Biden said
Metropolitan Museum reveals design for new $550m wing for Modern and contemporary art
Designs for the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, conceived by the architect Frida Escobedo, show a stepped exterior of latticed limestone
MoMA PS1 receives $1m gift from trailblazing collector’s foundation
The gift to the New York contemporary art centre from the organisation named after David Teiger will help to fund an upcoming exhibition programme
‘Breathe in the air and go to the beach’: Karla Harwich shares her Miami tips and latest acquisitions
The Miami native and El Museo del Barrio board chair reflects on the works that got away and her family favourite Miami meals
‘It was Pak’s work that truly ignited our love for digital art’: Desiree Casoni and Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile on their trendsetting collection
The Miami-based designer and NFT platform founder have long championed digital artists, but they still have a love of the great painters
‘I would love to have a Louise Bourgeois spider in my garden’: Ariel and Daphna Bentata on their adventurous collection
The Miami-based couple started their collection 31 years ago with a taste for contemporary art and the local flavors of Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami's splashy acquisition at Nada fair
The museum acquired a canvas by the Jamaican artist Simon Benjamin from the stand of New York's Swivel Gallery
At Miami Beach's Untitled Art fair, three artists win Vortic prize
The digital art platform bestowed its top prize on a decidedly analogue work
Nina Surel’s ceramic symbol of Florida acquired for Miami Beach’s collection at Art Basel
The acquisition is the latest in the city’s annual Legacy Purchase programme
‘Each body of work is exceptional to me’: George Merck on inception pieces and the maquette that got away
The Palm Beach-based art collector is drawn to works that play with light, and plans Miami nights with rigour
Full colour: celebrating 15 years of street art in Miami’s Wynwood
A new book reveals the exuberant and varied work created by numerous artists that has been key to the rejuvenation of the district north of the city’s downtown
Twelve must-see exhibitions in South Florida during Miami Art Week
From ambitious new projects by Andrea Chung, Rachel Feinstein, Marguerite Humeau and José Parlá to shows devoted to the revered and recently deceased artists Jacqueline de Jong and Keiichi Tanaami
US artist transforms former Confederate monument into heartfelt symbol
With a gesture of love, Raúl de Nieves has altered a New Orleans space once described as ‘the most racist’ in the city
101 exhibitors revealed for Frieze Los Angeles fair's 2025 edition
Preparations for the fair come as with Frieze parent company Endeavor is exploring a potential sale of the British art brand
Phillips's contemporary art auction in New York, hampered by Basquiat flop, brings in slim $44.2m
The night’s total take took a major hit when it was revealed that its second-biggest lot, a Basquiat self-portrait, had failed to sell
Remains of second victim of 1985 Philadelphia police bombing discovered at Penn Museum
The museum, which previously came under scrutiny for possessing the remains of another victim of the MOVE bombing, has been conducting an inventory of its biological anthropology section
US authorities return antiquities valued at $10m to India
The repatriated artefacts—1,440 in all—included pieces that had passed through the New York galleries of Subhash Kapoor and Nancy Wiener
San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum to close indefinitely
Museum leaders cited persistently low attendance and support coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reasons for the “reimagining and rebuilding”
Billionaire collector Ken Griffin gives $10m to Pérez Art Museum Miami
The gift was announced in tandem with the museum’s annual Art of the Party gala, where Griffin and the Colombian artist Delcy Morelos were honoured
Hate crime charges for three suspects in vandalism at Brooklyn Museum leaders’ homes
The alleged vandals are said to have targeted the homes of board members with “Jewish-sounding names”
Former museum curator accuses city in Arizona of censorship in lawsuit
The former chief curator of the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is suing the municipality for allegedly ordering the removal of a print from a Shepard Fairey exhibition
‘It’s good to be back at these famous steps’: Kamala Harris holds final rally before US election at Philadelphia Museum of Art
The event featured speeches and performances by Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, Lady Gaga and others
Climate change, racial violence, systemic inequity: New Orleans triennial confronts many of society's biggest problems
The latest edition of Prospect looks at how the city has been a harbinger for different issues, such as the climate crisis and the traumas of racial violence
Gift of more than $45m and 331 works for the Clark Art Institute
The gifts, from the foundation of the late trustee Aso O. Tavitian, will allow the Massachusetts museum to build a new wing
Marian Goodman Gallery opens sprawling Tribeca headquarters
The 47-year-old gallery has made a big move Downtown—to street level—and launched its new space with a sprawling show of works by 50 artists
Whitney Museum to waive admission fees for 25s and under thanks to gift from Julie Mehretu
The artist, a member of the museum’s board of trustees, gave more than $2m to expand its free admission policy