Imperial appointment: former Japanese princess lands job at the Metropolitan Museum
Mako Komuro, a former member of Japan’s imperial family, is reportedly volunteering her time to help with a forthcoming exhibition of hanging scroll paintings
Works rescued from dumpster lead to rediscovery of star artist of 1970s New York scene
Francis Hines was a well-known artist most famous for wrapping the Washington Square Park arch in fabric, but after he died in relative obscurity, in 2016, his work was nearly lost forever
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation gives $2.5m in emergency grants to protect at-risk heritage and artists in Ukraine and beyond
The foundation’s grants will be distributed through partnerships with PEN America and the World Monuments Fund
Review: Does the Whitney Biennial really reflect the world today?
Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Walid Raad at Paula Cooper Gallery to Daniel Lie at the New Museum
The 2022 Whitney Biennial in five key themes
The latest iteration of the Whitney Museum's closely-watched exhibition is structured around a contrast between light and dark, but a few motifs provide alternate ways of navigating the massive show
New York University provost Katherine Fleming will be the Getty Trust’s next leader
Fleming succeeds the Getty’s longtime leader James Cuno, who is retiring this summer
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Robert Irwin at Pace to Barkley L. Hendricks at Jack Shainman
The American Academy in Rome picks new director, the first woman of colour to lead the institution in its 128-year history
Aliza Wong, a professor and scholar who has written extensively about modern Italian history and culture, will take the reins in July
Italian court calls for restitution of ancient marble statue from Minneapolis Institute of Art
The two-metre-tall statue, which the museum acquired for $2.5m in 1986, was allegedly excavated illegally in the 1970s
Seven artists’ studios and environments added to US National Trust for Historic Preservation programme
The new additions to the Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios reflect an effort to add greater diversity to the network of sites
Sackler name will be removed from British Museum galleries, rooms and endowments
The removals are the result of a mutual agreement between the museum and the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation
From Christie’s to the United Arab Emi-Rex: record-smashing Tyrannosaurus fossil to be star of new Abu Dhabi museum
The massive ‘Stan’ skeleton is one of two major scientific discoveries destined for the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island
Archaeologist calls for repatriation of Roman fresco in Getty collection that came from known antiquities traffickers
Research published by forensic archaeologist Christos Tsirogiannis suggests the brilliant fresco fragment may have been illegally excavated near Pompeii
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Hollis Sigler at Andrew Kreps to James Turrell’s ode to Ad Reinhardt at Pace
Laurie Cumbo, city council member who founded a museum in Brooklyn, tapped to lead New York’s cultural affairs department
New York mayor Eric Adams has allegedly selected Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn’s Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, to lead the largest municipal arts department in the US
Los Angeles’s Underground Museum abruptly closes as directors depart
The museum, founded by the late Noah Davis and his wife, the artist Karon Davis, announced the sudden closure in a statement that offered few specifics but alluded to inner turmoil
Joe Biden taps major supporters of the Guggenheim, Menil Collection and Dia Art Foundation for advisory committee on the arts
The committee, established in 1958, advises the president on pressing issues in the arts and how federal policies can help shape them
European institutions pull loans from Moscow exhibition about the history of duels
Museums in the UK, France, Austria and Spain recalled their works, effectively postponing the Moscow Kremlin Museums exhibition indefinitely
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Michael Heizer at Gagosian to Frédéric Bruly Bouabré at the Museum of Modern Art
As Omicron wave recedes, US museums drop vaccine and mask requirements
With Covid-19 cases down sharply from January’s peak, art institutions from the Smithsonian to the Seattle Art Museum are no longer requiring visitors to mask up
Pussy Riot member curates US billboard art exhibition to raise awareness of gender pay gap
On the occasion of Women’s History Month, a show of large-scale public art curated by Nadya Tolokonnikova is taking over advertising spaces across the US
Why endow a museum wing when you can fund archives? Hauser & Wirth Institute gives $700,000 in grants to preserving historical records
Newly announced funding for the Studio Museum in Harlem and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute follow 2021 grants to small nonprofits in Chicago, British Columbia and Hong Kong
Appeals court sides with Phillips in dispute with Chinese collector over auction of Gerhard Richter fighter jet painting
The decision, the latest (and possibly last) in a legal saga that stretches back to 2015, upholds a 2021 decision in the auction house’s favour
Ukrainian institutions in North America ramp up programming and field donations as Russian invasion intensifies
Museums and institutes devoted to Ukraine and its diaspora are experiencing a surge of support and interest brought on by war in the homeland
Artworks from Ukrainian museum appear as monumental projections in California
The partnership between a Bay Area nonprofit and a museum in Kyiv began shortly before the Russian invasion has taken on new urgency in the days since
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Danica Lundy's disquieting tableaux of teenage angst to Claudette Schreuders's introspective doubles
US artist Nick Cave to project his dancing ‘Soundsuits’ onto massive building in central Chicago
The large-scale video projection coincides with the opening of Cave’s major solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, which will then travel to the Guggenheim in New York
Artist Sacha Jafri plans to place the ‘first official artwork on the moon’
The aerospace-grade aluminium plate will be sent to space later this year, but earthbound collectors can partake of the journey thanks to line of exclusive NFTs
Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein’s studio building donated to Whitney Museum
The building, just a few blocks from the museum, will be renovated and used as a permanent home for the Whitney’s Independent Study Program