Gabriella Angeleti

Gabriella Angeleti is the former assistant Museums & Heritage editor of The Art Newspaper, based in New York

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Fate of historic murals uncertain following Manhattan homeless shelter’s closure

The Bellevue Men’s Shelter was closed earlier this year after falling into disrepair, but efforts to document and preserve at least six Works Progress Administration-era murals in the building have stalled

Mexican authorities urge Sotheby’s to stop sale of two pre-Columbian artefacts

The objects, a stone mask and an intricate ceramic figure, are scheduled to be auctioned Thursday morning in New York

Former director of Rio’s Museu de Arte Moderna ordered to pay breach-of-contract fine

Shortly before his departure from the museum, Fábio Szwarcwald had publicly stated that it lacked fire insurance between 2006 and 2022, which the museum claims undermined its credibility

The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC receives largest gift in museum’s history

The Washington, DC institution has received a $15m gift from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the bulk of which will go to shoring up its finances, infrastructure, staffing, conservation and digital systems

MoMA exhibition will examine Mondrian’s time in New York and love of boogie woogie music

The exhibition, opening in March 2027, will pair one of MoMA’s prized possessions, “Broadway Boogie Woogie”, with “Victory Boogie Woogie” on loan from the Netherlands

New residency in upstate New York will give Indigenous artists access to neon fabrication studio

A partnership between Lite Brite Neon Studio and the Walker Youngbird Foundation, the residency will launch with the artist Sarah Rowe in September

Sophie Rivera's first survey focuses on experimentation

The show at El Museo del Barrio seeks to introduce audiences to a more playful and exploratory side of her work

Nine shows to see during Frieze New York

Check out our top picks from the many exhibitions taking place across the city

New York’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair focuses on Afro-Brazilian art

A special section at the fair seeks to deepen visitors’ understanding of “the largest Black country outside the African continent”, says curator Igor Simões

Frank Stella’s eye-dazzling collection of Navajo weavings to go on view

Geometric pattern explosion as abstract artist’s Diné rugs and blankets get first public showing, in New York City

Rio’s Museum of Image and Sound finally opens after 16 years in development

Located just off of Copacabana Beach, the new museum celebrates the artists and musicians that helped make the city a global cultural destination

Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center has art at its core

The centre’s art-filled campus will open in June, but visitors to Expo Chicago can get a preview of its art commissions in two special curated sections of the fair

Artist Ali Cherri files war crimes complaint in France over Israeli airstrike in Beirut that killed his parents

The airstrike killed seven people in a residential building in central Beirut that independent researchers have found to have no clear military function

Theaster Gates gifts David Drake pot from his collection to enslaved ceramicist’s descendants

The ceramic vessel is on view in a new exhibition at Gagosian in New York, alongside another returned to Drake’s descendants last year by the MFA Boston

Hirshhorn Museum’s revamped sculpture garden will feature new acquisitions by Mark Grotjahn, Lauren Halsey and more

The Smithsonian’s Modern and contemporary art museum in Washington, DC revealed eight recent acquisitions that will be displayed in the garden when it reopens this autumn

The new New Museum: now with twice the space

The New York institution opens its $82m expansion with a huge exhibition of works by more than 200 artists, from Salvador Dalí to Precious Okoyomon

São Paulo pop-up exhibition spotlights spherical home by architect Eduardo Longo

The fifth edition of “Aberto”, an annual exhibition melding Modernist architecture and contemporary art, offers the public a rare opportunity to visit Longo’s Casa Bola

Manumission digitisation project reveals grim story of slavery in Brazil

Records show how masters retained power over enslaved people even after emancipation

David A. Ross resigns from New York's School of Visual Arts over friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Newly released documents show the close relationship between the two men continued for years after Epstein’s first criminal conviction

‘Creative, provocative, controversial’: Truth Social ads for Nazi-owned art spark heated debate

The gallery behind the adverts has huge holdings of art associated with the Third Reich, and has loaned works to major museums

Crime news

Suspects in Brazil Matisse heist arrested, but alleged thief nicknamed ‘Gargamel’ remains at large

The 13 works stolen, by Henri Matisse and Candido Portinari, have not been recovered and are valued at up to $180,000

Francis Kéré's design for Las Vegas Museum of Art revealed

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect plans for the building draw dual inspiration from Las Vegas as a centre of Modernist architecture and a site within a stunning natural landscape

Gunmen stole works by Matisse and Portinari from Brazilian library in brazen daytime heist

The 13 works, stolen from the Mário de Andrade Library, were part of a show organised in collaboration with the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo

Hurricane Melissa relief: artists and art organisations lead fundraising efforts for devastated Caribbean

Artists around the world are working to provide support to communities in Jamaica and elsewhere

Penn Museum opens Native North America Gallery after two-year overhaul

The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000-sq.-ft gallery in collaboration with eight Indigenous curators

Philadelphia museum opens $20m expansion after winning back cancelled funding from Trump administration

Woodmere Art Museum, which includes thousands of works by generations of local artists, opens a second building to show off more of its collection

Princeton University Art Museum graduates to expansive new home

The institution has doubled the size of its former space to display more of its collection of 117,000 works, plus newly commissioned sculptures and installations

World Monuments Fund launches campaign to raise $60m endowment

The fundraising effort, which coincides with the organisation’s 60th anniversary, was bolstered by a $10m contribution from historian and philanthropist Suzanne Deal Booth

The Big Review | 36th Bienal de São Paulo ★★★★

This sometimes muddled show gets lost in its own lyricism, but works by the likes of Marlene Almeida and a performance rescue the endeavour