Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art repatriates ancient silk manuscript to China
The museum’s fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were looted from a tomb in Hunan Province and smuggled into the US nearly 80 years ago
Bauhaus thread weaves through expansive textile show at MoMA
Around 150 woven works by artists around the globe tell the story of abstraction through a new, craftier lens
‘We are all part of this intergalactic universe’: Saya Woolfalk’s solo show immerses viewers in her “Empathic Universe”
The artist’s exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design features works spanning more than 20 years of her world-building practice
Ten top shows to see in New York during Frieze week
Our pick of exhibitions includes Rashid Johnson's biggest ever show, Amy Sherald at the Whitney and hypermasculinity in Nigerian culture
MoMA acquires works featured in monumental Adam Pendleton installation
The museum has acquired 35 pieces—including videos, drawings and paintings—that made up Pendleton’s sprawling atrium installation in 2021-22
Megasculpture workshop and landscape reclamation drive Storm King Art Center regeneration
The biggest sculpture park in the US starts its visitor season with a bang—unveiling a first-ever conservation and fabrication building, major relandscaping, and monumental works by Kevin Beasley, Sonia Gomes and Dionne Lee
Changing the narrative: National Public Housing Museum opens in Chicago
Housed in one of the historic Jane Addams Homes, the new museum aims to challenge perceptions about the sector
‘We can’t predict the future or what will happen’: Trump’s slashing of US foreign aid hits heritage conservation
Restoration and preservation projects in countries from Sierra Leone to Ukraine are now at risk following US government’s sudden cuts to aid funding
Museums in southern Brazil still recovering after last year’s floods
Damage and destruction decimated visitor numbers to cultural events and institutions last year but optimism is high they will return in 2025
The Frick Collection opens its first-ever education centre
The Ian Wardropper Education Room, named after the museum’s outgoing director, welcomes everyone in the community
São Paulo's Museu de Arte to unveil sprawling expansion featuring 14-storey tower
This month’s opening will more than double the museum's space, and help to overcome its infrastructure limitations
Californian cultural sites at centre of tribal feud over casino
Koi Nation’s casino application approved but Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria claim sovereignty of Sonoma County land
‘Painting is uniquely suited to house these air phenomena’: Su Yu-Xin's atmospheric worlds
The Los Angeles-based artist’s Orange County Museum of Art show features luminous, airy painting she composes with homemade pigments
12 must-see exhibitions in and around Los Angeles during Frieze
From ancient Peruvian pottery and mid-century Modern ceramics, to reimagined Old Masters, an invented queer cowboy movie and more
Indigenous communities assist with reinterpretation of Arizona petroglyphs
At the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, a new project seeks to update the antiquated archaeological records of thousands of ancient motifs
Walter Robinson, sharp-eyed painter and critic, has died, aged 74
Robinson, one of the Pictures Generation artists, made brightly irreverent paintings; as a writer, he chronicled the New York scene for decades and coined the term “Zombie Formalism”
Julieta Aranda: '¿Cuál es el tiempo de soñar?'
La exposición de la artista nacida en la Ciudad de México en el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo examina sus proyectos relacionados con el tiempo y el trabajo
Julieta Aranda: ‘What is the time of dreaming?’
The Mexico City-born artist’s show at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo surveys her projects related to time and labour
Jo Baer, painter who pivoted from abstraction to ‘radical figuration’, has died, aged 95
Baer was equally renowned for her work in Minimalist abstraction and figurative painting
‘The market is still the domain of famous male artists’: Guerrilla Girls open their first commercial gallery show in New York
The feminist art collective’s commercial debut in their hometown, at Hannah Traore Gallery, is intended to introduce their activist work to a new generation
Who will save South America’s vast, ancient earthworks from destruction?
Industrial farming in Brazil and off-road racing in Chile continue to threaten geoglyphs that are so big, they can only be properly appreciated from the air
Zilia Sánchez, Cuban artist renowned for shaped, abstract canvases, has died, aged 98
Sánchez, who fled Cuba and ultimately settled in Puerto Rico, only achieved widespread critical acclaim late in her career
Our pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2025
The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris and São Paulo
Pérez Art Museum Miami presents artistic introduction to the little-known Candomblé religion
The exhibition comprises works referencing an African diasporic religion that originated in Brazil
‘Everything had a huge impression on me’: Rachel Feinstein on her latest exhibition, inspired by her childhood in Miami
The artist’s solo show at The Bass in Miami Beach includes new commissions reflecting her nostalgia for the city in the 1970s and 80s
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
Museu de Arte de São Paulo to finally open $43m expansion project in March 2025
A new building adjacent to the Brazilian museum’s original home will more than double its total space
How abandoned oil wells are threatening US heritage sites
There are over three million orphaned wells across America, most of which were installed before environmental and cultural protection laws were enacted
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s director removed following staff complaints
Stephanie Stebich, who had led the institution since 2017, has been reassigned to a senior advisory role
Garden party: one of the largest and most historic gardens in the US reveals its transformation
Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens unveils its $250m renovation and expansion project on 22 November