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
Penn State university's art museum reopens in new $85m building that seeks to blend art with nature
The Palmer Museum of Art in the city of State College, Pennsylvania, has nearly doubled its space
Officials in New York return antiquities worth $14m to Pakistan
Some of the 133 objects being repatriated are associated with the antiquities smugglers Subhash Kapoor and Richard Beale
Woman sues Walker Art Center after being told she could not breastfeed in a gallery
It appears the museum’s own employees were unaware of the policy that “parents are free to nurse children wherever”
National Endowment for the Arts awards more than $110m in grants to US organisations
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
Chile returns 400-million-year-old fossils to Morocco
The 117 artefacts had been smuggled into South America within the past several years
American Museum of Natural History curator detained at Istanbul airport with 1,500 spider and scorpion samples
Lorenzo Prendini says his permits to transport the specimens out of Turkey were ignored by police
Six galleries turning a school in upstate New York into a collective art space
The Campus, near the town of Hudson, will open to the public this summer
Jacob Lawrence’s painting series on Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture to be conserved thanks to $1m grant
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
19th-century book stolen from Brazilian museum in 2008 is located in London and repatriated
The 1823 naturalist tome describes species of monkeys and bats unique to the Amazon
Virginia Overton creates new public work for Brooklyn’s former Domino Sugar Refinery
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
Frieze New York's animal art gives fairgoers paws for thought
From fabulous fish to playful pups, The Shed in Chelsea is crawling with wildlife
Frieze New York staff t-shirts show off Atlanta-based artist’s abstract painting
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
Fifteen exhibitions to see in New York this spring
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
Met Museum signs cultural-property agreement with Thailand and returns two statues
In a ceremony at the museum, Met director Max Hollein signed a "memorandum of understanding" together with a representative of the Thai cultural ministry
Getty Museum restitutes ancient bronze head to Turkey
More than a decade after Turkey asked for it back, the sculpture will finally be returned
18th-century glass bottles filled with cherries discovered at George Washington's Mount Vernon residence
Brandy, anyone?
UBS Art Collection gives 166 photographs to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
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
Getty Museum acquires portrait by Neo-Classical painter Sophie Frémiet
It is the first US-museum acquisition of a work by the talented pupil of Jacques-Louis David
The Himalayas come to Manhattan for Rubin Museum’s final show in its New York space
Works by artists from the region and diaspora appear alongside objects from the museum’s collection
Dindga McCannon mural unveiled at Rikers Island
The work's brightly coloured positivity stands in sharp contrast to the notorious reputation of the prison where it is installed
Tamara de Lempicka makes her Broadway entrance
A new musical about the glamorous Art Deco painter matches its subject’s maximalism
Kim Conaty, curator of prints and drawings at the Whitney Museum, promoted to chief curator
She was the curator of the museum's blockbuster Edward Hopper and critically acclaimed Ruth Asawa exhibitions
Archaeologists in Brazil find petroglyphs alongside dinosaur tracks
No, this does not mean dinosaurs and humans lived there at the same time
The 2024 Whitney Biennial in five key themes
The Whitney Museum’s flagship contemporary art showcase turns on questions of identity, authenticity and mutability, which play out across more than a handful of interrelated topics
Warhol Museum director Patrick Moore stepping down
The president and chief executive of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, which operates the Warhol Museum, insists that the move is not a result of recent controversies
Redevelopment of Modernist complex on Toronto waterfront alarms residents and preservationists
The provincial government passed legislation to push through a controversial, publicly funded development of Ontario Place
16 new archaeological sites identified in Brazil’s Tocantins state
Newly discovered rock art, including human and animal footprints, is thought to have been created 2,000 years ago
Jewel was meant for Crystal Bridges: the singer will create an ‘art experience’ at the Arkansas museum
With a focus on art and wellness, the project will include Jewel’s own visual art, a drone show set to a new composition and a curated meal