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Mark Bradford wins $500,000 Getty Prize

As stipulated in the award's new rules, the Los Angeles-based abstract artist will donate the money to a non-profit of his choosing

A theatrical new Calder exhibition staged in Seattle

The Seattle Art Museum’s gift of more than 45 works from collectors Jon and Kim Shirley makes for a compelling performance

‘One of the great museum directors of her generation’: Ann Philbin to retire after 25 years leading the Hammer Museum

Philbin transformed the University of California, Los Angeles's campus museum (originally built to house an oil magnate's Old Masters) into a world-class contemporary art institution

Jasper Johns’s ‘mutual aid’ organisation for artists receives almost $9m from the estate of Los Angeles gallerist Margo Leavin

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has been selling works donated by visual artists to fund those working in experimental forms and performance since 1963

New 3D documentary tells the multidimensional story of American artist H.C. Westermann

Westermann’s hand-carved wooden sculptures pop off cinema screens in Los Angeles and Chicago this month

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum sues architect and construction company behind new $38m pavilion

The museum says that Why Architects and Swinerton Builders “failed to meet even the minimum museum-quality standards”

The National Museum of Women in the Arts reopens after $67.5m makeover

The Washington, DC, museum opens on 21 October with an ambitious show of previously unseen large-scale sculptures and immersive installations

Sallisa Rosa is bringing her largest ceramic installation to Miami Beach and São Paulo

The project, commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary, draws on the artist’s Indigenous heritage to explore collective memory

New building for Memphis Brooks Museum imperilled amid lawsuit over ownership of its riverfront plot

The legal case seeking to block the art museum's new $180m Herzog & de Meuron-designed building is ongoing

The Met and Yemeni government reach agreement for long-term display and care of two ancient sculptures

The artefacts, dating from the third millenium BC, will remain in New York as Yemen’s civil war drags on

Unesco adds sites in Kyiv and Lviv to list of world heritage in danger

Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral, the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and the historic centre of Lviv join Odesa on Unesco’s endangered list

Gagosian notches victory in lawsuit brought by photographer over Richard Prince’s New Portraits series

The gallery will not have to pay Donald Graham for any “unrealised profits” related to Prince’s appropriation of the photographer’s work

Finding humour in New York's Independent 20th Century fair

The art fair's second edition features plenty of paintings, plus some unusual sculptures, by previously overlooked 20th-century artists

Non-profits paws-itively ubiquitous at Armory Week fairs

Amid the commercial commotion, fairs like The Armory Show, Independent 20th Century and Photofairs New York are providing free or discounted space for non-profits

Ten exhibitions to see in New York City this autumn

From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more

Race to save Marcel Breuer’s 'magical' retreat on Cape Cod

The architect’s son is selling the Modernist summer house and a trust hopes to raise the funds to buy it

US returns almost 100 stolen pre-Hispanic artefacts to Mexico

They had been smuggled into the US after a 2008 museum heist

The Metropolitan Museum plans major Harlem Renaissance exhibition

The show will focus on the movement’s influences on Modernism on both sides of the Atlantic

Dealer Edward Tyler Nahem sues over ownership of $8.7m Calder mobile

A daughter of the former owner of the sculpture claims it was stolen from her dying mother; Nahem says she is stalking him and marring his reputation

$30 is the new $25: SFMoMA raises admission prices

The Bay Area institution is increasing its ticket prices 20% just in time for a blockbuster Yayoi Kusama show

J.K. Rowling removed from museum’s Harry Potter displays over transphobic views

Rowling has been scrubbed from the galleries of Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture

Massive Jean Dubuffet sculpture will be moved to the Art Institute of Chicago

It will be on long-term loan from the Illinois State Museum while its current home, the Thompson Center, is converted into Google offices

Joe Biden to establish US national monument honouring Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder shocked the nation

The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include sites in Mississippi and Illinois

Collector Adam Lindemann arrested after shoving rival dealer Max Levai

The Hamptons neighbours got into a spat about zoning violations

Smithsonian under fire for abrupt cancellation of Asian American literary festival

The institution cited “unforeseen circumstances”, leaving angry participants with debt and many unanswered questions

Dallas Museum of Art reveals six shortlisted architectural designs for campus revamp

The museum is encouraging public input on the proposals and will announce a winner in August

Whitney Museum of American Art raises ticket prices and becomes most expensive New York museum

Admission fees have increased by 20% for adults and 33% for seniors and students, matching (and even exceeding) those at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The artist who brought the great outdoors inside—for her cats

Abi Palmer wanted her indoor cats, adopted during Covid-19 lockdowns, to experience the passage of the seasons, a process she documented in a new video series

‘Cultural erasure’ in the Caucasus: new satellite imagery shows ongoing destruction of Armenian heritage sites

Images show disappearance of churches and cemeteries in the Nagorno-Karabakh and Nakhchivan regions at the centre of the largely ignored conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan