Allegedly Nazi-looted Egon Schiele works valued at nearly $4m are seized at US museums
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office ordered the seizure of works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Museums and Allen Memorial Art Museum
US authorities return 33 looted antiquities to Cambodia
The artefacts belonged to the late collector George Lindemann and were turned over to authorities voluntarily by his family
Art Basel Miami Beach lines up 24 first-time exhibitors and revamps its layout for 2023 edition
The mega-fair will have slightly fewer exhibitors than it did in 2022
Mexico’s Sfer Ik launches $100,000 award to support creation of AI art project
The Tulum-based art space is putting out an open call, with the winner receiving cash and a two-month residency
Korean emerging artists to watch at Frieze Seoul and Kiaf
From Boschian epics and BDSM hardware to understated sculptures and irreverent paintings, a new generation of Korean artists is making a splash
High sea at Frieze Seoul
The Korean artist collective ikkibawiKrrr offered fair-goers a salty sampling of the sea water from Jeju Island
'I buy from the heart and using my own eyes': Everette Taylor on trusting his tastes and instincts
The chief executive of Kickstarter has built a formidable collection of works by artists of colour, all the while remaining mindfull of his wall space—"I want to live with my art"
Final piece in the Ground Zero puzzle
World Trade Center’s new $500m arts venue, the Perelman Performing Arts Center, opens in September with performances by Laurie Anderson and others
Ten exhibitions to see in New York City this autumn
From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more
Climate activist smears pink paint on Tom Thomson canvas at National Gallery of Canada
A man was arrested following the action, which was organised by the Canadian activist group On2Ottawa
Ambitious Colorado exhibition puts the 'culture' in 'agriculture'
An exhibition co-organised by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Longmont Museum pairs contemporary artists with farms
Afro-futurist portal opens at New York’s Penn Station
The bustling station’s future hangs in the balance of political jockeying, but in the meantime it is hosting two new art installations
Lacma reaches $750m fundraising goal for new Peter Zumthor-designed building
The museum says its new building, which stretches across Wilshire Boulevard, is now 65% complete
Auctioneer, who admitted he helped make fake Basquiats seized by the FBI, avoids jail time
Michael Barzman will pay a fine, do community service and be on probation for his role in the forgery scandal
Officials from three countries have called on Denver Art Museum to return eight artefacts in its collection
Six of the eight allegedly looted objects were donated to the museum by Emma C. Bunker, an associate of smuggler Douglas Latchford
Getty teams with Frieze for projects leading up to 2024 edition of Pacific Standard Time
The partnership will begin during Frieze Seoul in September, with a project by the Korean collective ikkibawiKrrr about the famed women divers of Jeju Island
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s climate initiative awards $2.7m more in grants and extends programme until 2025
The initiative, which initially was intended to award $10m total in grants, will now give out $15m for ecological projects at art non-profits
Sculptor’s long-running lawsuit against Kevin Costner can resume, judges rule
A panel of judges found that the lawsuit, over what Costner claims is the third-largest bronze sculpture in the world, had been erroneously dismissed
Dallas Museum of Art picks Spanish architecture firm for campus overhaul
Madrid-based Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was selected from a shortlist of six firms vying to transform the Texan museum
Planned Centre Pompidou outpost in New Jersey is ‘a circus of waste and excess’, according to Republican report
A Republican state senator is taking Jersey City’s mayor and New Jersey’s governor to task over the delayed museum project
Dallas Center for Photography to close permanently
The organisation was the only non-profit in north Texas devoted to photography
Petra Cortright's digital landscapes blossom at Intersect Aspen
One of the fair's only solo stands, from Florida-based gallery County, features recent compositions by the Net art pioneer
New York’s Guggenheim Museum raises price of admission to $30, keeping pace with Whitney and Met
A standard adult ticket is now on par with other recent entry fee increases across town
New space art project aims to put thousands of works onto the surface of the moon
The so-called Lunar Codex, the brainchild of a scientist-turned-science fiction author, will send a trove of human cultural material to the moon
MoMA trustee Leon Black accused of raping teen with autism at Jeffrey Epstein's mansion in new lawsuit
The new accusations follow Epstein-related rape allegations made against Black last year
Marguerite Humeau plants a resilient crop of Land art in Colorado
Marguerite Humeau’s outdoor project in the rugged San Luis Valley seeks to heighten visitors’ awareness of the landscape
Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at 2024 Venice Biennale
Gibson will be the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition for the US Pavilion
Alaska souvenir store accused of selling artefacts falsely labelled as authentic ‘Native art’
The lawsuit comes amid a crackdown on sales of fake Native American artefacts
Brazil’s Inhotim Institute opens dedicated Yayoi Kusama gallery
The permanent pavilion includes two of the Japanese artist’s beloved installations
Republican lawmakers move to block funding for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Latino
Under a new bill, the planned museum, which was created by an act of Congress in 2020, would be banned from receiving federal funding