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”

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

Next Stop: Chicago will focus on infrastructure inequality after Covid

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Palmer Museum of Art in the city of State College, Pennsylvania, has nearly doubled its space

Some of the 133 objects being repatriated are associated with the antiquities smugglers Subhash Kapoor and Richard Beale

It appears the museum’s own employees were unaware of the policy that “parents are free to nurse children wherever”

Visual-art projects receiving support include a new Agnes Denes work in California, a Duane Linklater commission in New York and a public collaboration to help heal Indigenous generational trauma in Alaska

The 117 artefacts had been smuggled into South America within the past several years

Lorenzo Prendini says his permits to transport the specimens out of Turkey were ignored by police

The Campus, near the town of Hudson, will open to the public this summer

The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has received a grant from the Terra Foundation to get the 41 paintings ready for their first public exhibition since 2010

The 1823 naturalist tome describes species of monkeys and bats unique to the Amazon

The Brooklyn-based artist has created an abstract wall sculpture for the building’s lobby using parts of the old factory’s iconic yellow sign

From fabulous fish to playful pups, The Shed in Chelsea is crawling with wildlife

Hasani Sahlehe’s Trying Green, acquired by the Georgia Museum of Art with help from fashion company Stone Island, gives uniforms a pop of colour at The Shed

From a historic Harlem Renaissance show at the Met and MoMA's Joan Jonas retrospective to solo museum debuts for Melissa Cody and Nona Faustine

In a ceremony at the museum, Met director Max Hollein signed a "memorandum of understanding" together with a representative of the Thai cultural ministry

More than a decade after Turkey asked for it back, the sculpture will finally be returned

Brandy, anyone?

Drawn from a 300-work sub-collection gathered by John Szarkowski in the 1990s, the gift includes images by 96 photographers—among them Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston