US non-profits have supported more than 130 Ukrainian artists impacted by Russia’s war with emergency and resiliency grants
PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection, with funds from the Frankenthaler and Warhol foundations, has given more than $180,000 in grants to help affected artists with emergency needs and to keep practising
Jenny Holzer projection takes over Rockefeller Center in support of freedom of expression
The renowned conceptual artist’s latest public art piece, a collaboration with PEN America, comes after after shocking attacks on authors and journalists in the US
Québec City museum picks design for $42.5m new pavilion devoted to Jean Paul Riopelle
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec has selected Montreal-based firm Les Architectes Fabg to design a pavilion to house its collection of Riopelle works, the largest in the world
At Independent 20th Century, artists who pushed material boundaries get their dues, belatedly
The new fair’s focus on under-recognised figures and bodies of work from last century occasions rich discoveries, including works by artists who were unafraid to challenge material orthodoxies
The artist confronting the history of New York’s slave trade
In her Armory Show solo stand with Higher Pictures Generation, Nona Faustine calls attention to the city’s oft-overlooked and pervasive ties to slavery
What recession? Foreign galleries splurge on Manhattan outposts
Galleries headquartered abroad are inaugurating New York spaces even while taking part in fairs across the city and around the globe
A critical mass of galleries from across Africa are participating in The Armory Show
This year's edition includes galleries with spaces in Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa
Obamas’ White House portraits unveiled
Commissioned while Obama was still in office, the portraits would traditionally have been unveiled during the Trump administration, but no such ceremony was ever organised
Brazil turns 200—and its National Museum rises from the ashes
Plus, the £50m Joshua Reynolds painting and Michael Heizer’s City
Banksy mural, and the Los Angeles building he painted it on, head to auction
The iconic mural of a girl on a swing, and the storied building on which it was painted, are expected to bring between $16m and $30m
Former trustees of Florida museum claim they were kept unaware of FBI’s interest in allegedly fake Basquiats
Trustees who say they were summarily dismissed over email as retaliation claim that the board chair concealed information about an FBI subpoena months before the Basquiat exhibition opened
Artist Ebony G. Patterson will co-curate next edition of New Orleans’s Prospect triennial
Patterson, whose work was featured in the triennial’s third edition in 2014-15, will co-curate the sixth edition with Miranda Lash
Meta puts analogue art front and centre in sprawling new Manhattan office
The tech giant’s new complex inside the historic Farley Building features site-specific commissions by Baseera Khan, Timur Si-Qin, Liz Collins, Matthew Kirk, and Esteban Cabeza de Baca and Heidi Howard
Donald Trump’s political action committee gives Smithsonian $650,000 to pay for presidential portrait commission
The funds will cover nearly the entire cost of commissioning official portraits of the former president and former first lady Melania Trump for the National Portrait Gallery
Biden appoints archaeologists, museum leaders and Acquavella Galleries director to US committee advising on imports of cultural property
The Cultural Property Advisory Committee guides the US Department of State on import restrictions for artefacts and emergency actions related to cultural property
‘This show was in some way my own wake’: Solange Knowles on her Venice Biennale performance, the focus of a new book
The artist, musician and performer discusses ‘In Past Pupils and Smiles’, a performance she staged in Venice in 2019 that is chronicled in a new book
From the archive | Michael Heizer’s City, a vast art project in the Nevada desert 50 years in the making finally opens to the public
The artist’s sprawling gesamtkunstwerk has been described as the largest contemporary artwork on earth, evoking the scale of Mesoamerican cities and Indigenous burial mounds
Outcry over Mexico City’s plan to replace guerrilla ‘anti-monument’ to victims of gender violence with replica of pre-hispanic statue
After an earlier plan for a new sculpture by artist Pedro Reyes was roundly rejected, the municipal government said it had received activists’ blessing to replace the protest monument that stood in its place
Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture receives $8m in state funding for major renovation
The centre, whose art collection is one of the richest in historic and Modern Black art, will put the state funds toward major improvements to its building
Thermal glass and solar power: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation gives $3m to help US art organisations reduce their emissions
The new grants, to art museums, schools and nonprofits in 19 states, represent the second major round of support under the foundation’s Frankenthaler Climate Initiative
US President Biden names influential museum leaders to Institute of Museum and Library Services advisory board
The directors of the Parrish Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art and Cincinnati Art Museum are among those Biden has named to the National Museum and Library Services Board
Six must-see exhibitions on view in the Hamptons
As the Art Market Hamptons fair returns to Water Mill, these are the must-see shows on the east end of Long Island
Laura Poitras documentary on Nan Goldin’s campaign against the Sacklers to show at New York Film Festival
The film, “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”, chronicles Goldin’s life, career and activism around the opioid crisis
Maya Lin to create sculptural fountain for the Obama Presidential Center
The sculpture, “Seeing Through the Universe”, will be installed on the centre’s grounds in an area honouring Barack Obama’s mother
Expo Chicago picks Americas Society and Macba curators to organise fair's special sections in 2023
Museu d'art contemporani de Barcelona curator Claudia Segura and Americas Society director Aimé Iglesias Lukin will oversee the fair’s large-scale art and emerging gallery programmes, respectively
Chicago’s ten-ton Jean Dubuffet sculpture will be relocated after Google buys building where it has long stood
The tech giant is moving into the Thompson Center, forcing its biggest and oldest tenant—a 29ft-tall Dubuffet—to go elsewhere
From Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s doomed Colorado projects to Precious Okoyomon’s utopian garden, Aspen Art Week's must-see exhibitions
The event coincides with the second edition of the Intersect Aspen art fair and the Aspen Art Museum’s annual ArtCrush benefit auction
Museum devoted to Jean Paul Riopelle planned for remote Quebec island
The museum, proposed by the artist’s widow, would cost $3.3m and is to be situated on scenic island in the St. Lawrence river
Audubon Society chapter drops John James Audubon’s name due to the artist’s racist actions and beliefs
The Seattle chapter of the environmental organisation is the first to do away with Audubon’s name entirely amid a nationwide reckoning with his legacy
Some of the must-see exhibitions during Upstate Art Weekend in New York
The third annual iteration of the Hudson Valley arts festival features its biggest roster yet, with nearly 150 events and exhibitions