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Withdrawn from auction in February, the shield will make a stop at the Toledo Museum of Art before going on public display at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis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

Frankenthaler Foundation announces $3.3m in climate grants to 69 art organisations

The money will be used to install solar panels, updating lighting and create carbon-neutrality plans

Another Schiele work returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum

The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”

Italian art critic Eugenio Viola to curate 2025 Bienal de Arte Paiz

The largest contemporary art exhibition in Central America returns to Guatemala with a performance-art specialist at its helm

New public art projects to coincide with Democratic National Convention

Next Stop: Chicago will focus on infrastructure inequality after Covid

National Trust for Historic Preservation grants $3m to Black heritage sites across the US

Almost half of the funding will go towards preserving Modernist buildings designed by Black architects

Collector Jorge Pérez blasts Ron DeSantis for vetoing $32m in Florida arts funding

"We were long a society of fun and sun, but we’re no longer that—we don’t want that," he said.

US National Gallery acquires four Robert Longo drawings, including one of the 6 January insurrection

The monumental works highlight both the might and the fragility of US government institutions

Hottest Abe: wax statue of Lincoln loses its head amid US heat wave

The artist Sandy Williams IV’s wax replica of the Lincoln Memorial melted during the East Coast heat wave

Legal challenge to preserve Toronto's Ontario Place rejected as mega-spa project moves forward

In addition, it was discovered that the provincial government agreed to pay almost C$1m to make its controversial case for moving the Ontario Science Centre, which closed permanently Friday due to structural decay

Conservation experts deploying to Lahaina, Hawaii, to support recovery from 2023 wildfires

Thanks to a grant of almost $20,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two experts will travel to Maui to assist affected museums and historic sites

In pictures: Art Basel's Unlimited is all about the human touch

Giovanni Carmine, the curator of the fair's section dedicated to monumental works, shares some of his favourites

Four must-see exhibitions during Art Basel

From Precious Okoyomon's nightmarish animatronic bear to a global survey of Black figurative painting, sci-fi chairs and Dan Flavin

US judge rejects Nazi-loot claim to Van Gogh Sunflowers painting owned by Japanese company

After almost two years, the case has been dismissed due to a lack of jurisdiction, so the work will remain at the Sompo Museum of Art in Tokyo

New arts complex to open in Philadelphia with help from Theaster Gates

The collectors Michael Forman and Jennifer Rice will both house their extensive collection there and engage the working-class neighbourhood where they bought almost a whole city block