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Michi Jigarjian on the art she collects and why

The New York-based multihyphenate most recently acquired a sculpture by Camille Henrot in Paris

In pictures: a season for newcomers at Art Basel Miami Beach’s Meridians

“For a lot of the galleries and artists, this is their first time at Art Basel. It’s a good entryway into the fair,” says Meridians curator Yasmil Raymond

Warhol’s Muhammad Ali canvas sells for a punchy price

The canvas sold for $18m at Art Basel Miami Beach, in the same building where Ali won his first heavyweight championship in 1964

Cristina Chacón & Diego Uribe on the art they collect and why

The couple, who serve on the chairman’s council of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, have acquired a collection that spans across Miami, Bogota and Madrid

Pilar Crespi on the art-world friendships that have inspired her collection, and how to spend five days in Miami

The Miami-based philanthropist describes her first acquisition and the best local art venues to visit

Torkwase Dyson and Alia Farid among artists commissioned for next Carnegie International

More than a dozen participating artists have been announced for the 2026 edition of the longest running recurring exhibition in North America

Long-running Azores art festival blossoms into a biennial

Walk&Talk, launched in 2011 as a celebration of street art, this year hosts an abundance of works by more than 80 artists in nine venues around the island of São Miguel

Glimpsing the future: William Kentridge opera has its New York premiere in Brooklyn

The South African artist’s 2019 "Waiting for the Sibyl"—originally conceived as a companion piece to Alexander Calder’s “ballet without dancers”—grapples with life’s uncertainty

New York City provides long-term support to five local arts organisations

The organisations have been inaugurated into the coveted Cultural Institutions Group, made up of entities that operate on public land and engage meaningfully with their communities

Calder Gardens opens this weekend in Philadelphia

The long-awaited project is not a museum but a contemplative, multi-sensory space—or an underground cathedral

Artists including Jenny Holzer, Alison Saar and Kiki Smith creating commissions for Obama Presidential Center

The nine new works will be made by ten artists—including Nick Cave, Marie Watt and Idris Khan

Crystal Bridges Museum's expansion will open in June 2026

The Arkansas institution also announced that it has received two gifts totalling more than 200 works by over 100 artists

Furniture gets a performative boost at Collectible design fair

At the fair’s second New York iteration, bespoke functional art meets food, music, drag and even body piercing

Teiger Foundation gives grants totalling $7m to 85 curators

Grants of between $50,000 and $150,000 will fund exhibitions, research, touring shows or three years of programming

Artists and scholars respond to White House’s list of Smithsonian grievances

Amy Sherald, the historian Ibram X. Kendi and others personally attacked in the Trump administration’s list of reasons for why the president “is right about the Smithsonian” hit back

Mickalene Thomas’s ex-fiancée accuses the artist of sexual harassment and stealing millions of dollars from her

The curator and model Racquel Chevremont—who appeared on the latest season of ‘The Real Housewives of New York City’—is seeking at least $10m in damages

Getty Foundation awards $2.6m in grants to preserve Black visual arts archives

Libraries, museums and archives throughout the US will use the funds to make their collections more accessible through digitisation and—at least in one case—a VR game

San Francisco’s de Young Museum opens revamped Native American art galleries

The spaces are curated by a team of predominantly Native curators, with a special focus on bridging historical and contemporary works

New York non-profit Art in General, shuttered since 2020, stages a comeback

While the nonprofit looks for a permanent space, it will host pop-up exhibitions and events throughout the city

Rock on! Prehistoric art dominates Unesco's 26 new World Heritage Sites

A third of the newcomers have roots in prehistory, including mysterious megaliths in France and a region in Australia that is home to some of the world’s oldest petroglyphs

Historic Grand Canyon Lodge destroyed by wildfire

The beloved 1937 complex, which hosted millions of visitors on the National Park’s North Ridge, has fallen victim to the ongoing Dragon Bravo Fire

Prospect New Orleans will not take place in 2027

The city-wide contemporary-art triennial will instead publish a book celebrating its first 20 years

In pictures: meet the newcomer galleries debuting at Art Basel

More than a dozen galleries are showing at Art Basel for the first time, all brimming with enthusiasm

‘To this day, I can’t get it out of my mind’: Tobias van Gils on missing out on Maurizio Cattelan's orchid

The founder of the Zurich-based investment firm MLT Capital recently launched an art foundation with his wife

Art Basel and Frieze set their sights on the next generation of visitors

Young people enjoy free entry to Art Basel this week, while Frieze keeps charges low for the under-12s

‘I’ve been in the art world long enough to trust my eye’: Suzanne Syz on how she collects

The jewellery designer, who was friends with Warhol and Basquiat in the 1980s, discusses her favourite Giacometti and the infamous Warhol work she missed out on

A whale of a tale: new exhibition chronicles the US’s first oil addiction

The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale oil industry fueled capitalism's expansion

Art Basel gets go-going at Hauser & Wirth’s stand

Felix Gonzalez-Torres's 1991 silent-disco performance work is turning fairgoers' heads

Basel native Irène Zurkinden makes a long-overdue return

A new show at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger is the often overlooked artist's first since the 1980s

Donald Judd campus in Marfa, Texas added to US's National Register of Historic Places

The Minimalist bought and modified more than a dozen buildings in Texas in the 1970s, using them as studios and galleries for his sculptures and transforming a small city into the art-world pilgrimage site it is today