Superflex to send climate-conscious message during 76th United Nations General Assembly in New York
The Danish art collective will show one work on the façade of the international agency's Manhattan headquarters next week
Faith Ringgold to get her first New York retrospective at the New Museum in 2022
The exhibition will span six decades and explore Ringgold as both an artist and political activist
Sculptor Nairy Baghramian awarded 2022 Nasher Prize
The $100,000 award for sculpture recognises the Berlin-based artist's evocative explorations of the body through sculpture
Peru’s heritage gets a new $125m home
Museo Nacional del Perú (Muna) boasts a collection of nearly 50,000 Pre- Columbian objects, including repatriated artefacts
Robert E. Lee monument removed in Richmond, Virginia
The equestrian statue of the Confederate general has been heavily vandalised since the eruption of Black Lives Matter protests last summer
São Paulo Bienal echoes the political polarisation in Brazil
The 34th edition of the second longest-running international exhibition reflects on past and present political and social tensions
Michelle Stuart: Beyond the Earth
She was one of the first artists to use the land in her work, and now an Armory exhibition showcases the full range of her career
The top five museum shows to see during Armory Week
From Dior at the Brooklyn Museum to Shigeko Kubota at MoMA
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Aline Motta’s meditation on colonial erasure at the New Museum to recent paintings by Markus Lüpertz at Michael Werner
New and noteworthy: see what the Armory Show's younger galleries are bringing to the fair
In the Presents section, galleries founded within the past ten years present solo or dual-artist shows. Here are some works to look out for this year
Putting Uruguay on the art map: sculptor Pablo Atchugarry is building a world-class museum in his home country
Billed as Uruguay's most comprehensive hub for international contemporary art, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Atchugarry will open in Punta del Este next January
CCS Bard receives $50m endowment from museum founder Marieluise Hessel and billionaire George Soros
The donation is part of a $1bn endowment campaign to shore up the liberal arts school's finances
Museum championing ‘art of the people’ reopens in San Diego after $55m renovation
The Mingei International Museum, which has been closed for three years, holds a vast collection of folk art and design
Museu de Arte de São Paulo plans to tunnel its way through to a new 14-storey building
The Lina Bo Bardi-designed museum in Brazil can currently only display 1% of its 11,000-piece collection
Radical from the start: Judy Chicago’s retrospective at the De Young Museum goes beyond The Dinner Party
The exhibition demonstrates how the artist has “always been progressive in her thinking” about social issues, from feminism to environmentalism
The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Qaumajuq centre opens inaugural Indigenous triennial exhibition
The show features works by artists from Canada, New Zealand and Australia and considers themes and politics around water
Lynn Hershman Leeson, digital art pioneer, traces the tangled web of virtual life
A sprawling exhibition at the New Museum, featuring early online works and recent projects exploring DNA, proves how farsighted her work has been
Initiative to support Indigenous artists announces inaugural residencies and grants
The artist Sky Hopinka and three recipients will receive $25,000 and residencies at an Ai Weiwei-designed home in upstate New York
Warehouse of the Cinemateca Brasileira is struck by fire
Lawsuit was filed against the Brazilian government earlier this month citing the imminent risk of a blaze
Extract | A rare pamphlet from a historic Black art exhibition by the Spiral collective
The text accompanied the group's only show and is now one of several texts about Black art brought together in a new book The Soul of Nation Reader
Dealer admits to marketing fraudulent Indigenous wood carvings to Canadian museums and galleries
Works by a non-Indigenous artist known as Harvey John were sold at museum gift shops and galleries as authentic Haida artworks
Plans scrapped for solar project that would disrupt Michael Heizer’s Double Negative
A solar farm was cancelled after months of backlash from local residents
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund grants $3m to Black historic landmarks
The $50m grant programme, launched in the wake of the Unite the Right rally, aims to preserve histories beyond Confederate heritage
Protestors gather at the reopening of New York’s Museum of Chinese in America
Demonstrators argue the museum is complicit in mass incarceration and the gentrification of Chinatown
Paper craft: Getty Foundation grants $1.55m to undersung prints and drawings projects
The funding will benefit emerging and mid-career curators from 19 US and international museums
Charlottesville removes statue of Confederate general at the centre of the Unite the Right rally
City officials are asking museums and historical societies to solicit interest in acquiring several removed statues
Security guards become guest curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The forthcoming show, developed with the help of art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, aims to highlight a “multiplicity of curatorial voices in major institutions”
Bienal de São Paulo celebrates its 70th anniversary this month with a podcast series and other programmes
The biennial helped launch the careers of artists like Lygia Pape, Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark
Nancy Holt’s archives head to Smithsonian, opening the door for more land art works
From astronomical observations to personal photographs, the 50,000-piece collection includes documentation of unrealised works that the artist's foundation hopes to one day complete
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From the Met’s survey of women photographers to Wong Ping’s dark films at the New Museum