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The most exciting art museum openings and expansions of 2025

The construction of Saadiyat Cultural District is due to be completed, while the Studio Museum in Harlem will unveil its new 82,000 sq. ft building

Controversial Ontario Place redevelopment and mega-spa could cost taxpayers billions

A long-awaited report from Ontario’s auditor general finds that the redevelopment plan for Toronto's modernist landscape is “not fair, transparent or accountable”

Thundering threads: highlights from Art Basel Miami Beach’s Meridians sector, which showcases large-scale works

Meridians curator Yasmil Raymond chooses works that embody “movements, transformations, metamorphosis”

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

Climate activists who dumped red powder on US Constitution at National Archives sentenced to prison

Donald Zepeda and Jackson Green were also involved in the paint attack on Degas’s ballerina and writing “Honor Them” on a wall last year at the National Gallery of Art

Toledo Museum of Art uses cryptocurrency to acquire digital art piece

The museum used USD Coin to buy an NFT in a new series by the artist collective Yatreda ያጥሬዳ

New-York Historical Society changes its name and reveals plans for new $175m wing

The museum's new wing dedicated to American democracy will open in 2026, just in time for the US’s semiquincentennial

Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City home will no longer become a public museum

The house will be a research centre instead, allegedly due to a labour struggle at the university that owns it

Fate of Frank Lloyd Wright’s only skyscraper remains uncertain amid duelling lawsuits

Oklahoma’s Price Tower is caught in a tug-of-war between its current crypto-enthusiast owners, Wright’s conservancy and a company that restores historic buildings

Smithsonian receives $40m from the Lilly Endowment

The money will be used for programming related to the semiquincentennial of the US in 2026

Film review

William Kentridge argues with himself in streaming series

The artist’s nine-episode series "Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot" celebrates creative optimism during the Covid-19 lockdowns

Mellon Foundation launches $25m fund to support culture along the US-Mexico border

The inaugural Frontera Culture Fund will contribute to 32 arts and community organisations

‘The new idea is like falling in love’: Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg on the creative process

After 20 years of working together, the duo talk about their influences, themes and characters, music and the fickleness of art-making

MFA Boston gets $25m gift to renovate galleries and add staff

The Wyss Foundation’s donation will create more than 5,000 sq. ft of extra space for the museum’s 20th-century art collection

Maqdala shield to be repatriated to Ethiopia

Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa

New York City mayor’s aides allegedly pressured Brooklyn Museum to host Chinese history exhibition

A recent investigation found that Eric Adams’s office was involved in the scheme to mount a show about Sun Yat-sen with just one month’s notice

Art festival in Norway embraces the sounds of the Arctic Circle

At the Lofoten International Art Festival, music and sound art complement a majestic landscape of fjords and mountains

In the first major US survey of Tamara de Lempicka’s work, de Young Museum reveals the many sides of the painter

The San Francisco institution reveals personal details about the artist famed for her female portraits

A new online museum is sharing the histories of repatriated objects

The digital Museum of Looted Antiquities aspires to be an encyclopaedic repository on returned cultural artefacts—and to expose smuggling networks

New York City celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th birthday

Events across Manhattan will pay tribute to the late artist through readings, film screenings, music and a candlelit procession

Must-see shows in New York this Autumn

The season’s standout exhibitions, from Soho to the Bronx

Meticulous handiwork wins the day at New York's Art on Paper fair

The fair champions art made on and with paper, in every form and style

Roving children’s photography workshops in Turkey seek to create community through art

At Fotohane Darkroom, Turkish kids join young Syrian refugees to document their lives

Warhol Foundation to sell the artist’s works on eBay to benefit its grantees

The initiative, called the Philanthropy Factory, hopes to raise an additional $1.5m for 74 US arts organisations

Second lawsuit to halt development of mega-spa on Toronto Modernist landscape is dismissed

The fate of the landmarked Ontario Science Centre also hangs in the balance of the redevelopment dispute over Ontario Place

Marcel Breuer’s Modernist cottage on Cape Cod sold to local trust, paving way for restoration

The Cape Cod Modern House Trust intends to use the architect's summer home to host residencies for artists, architects and scholars