After social media backlash, Dark Mofo art festival in Tasmania launches fund for Aboriginal artists
The festival drew criticism last month for an art project that would crowd-source blood from Indigenous and Aboriginal people
Ugo Rondinone’s Seven Magic Mountains in the Nevada desert will undergo a second restoration
The immersive artwork, installed in 2016, could be up for another five years
Another ancient petroglyph panel has been vandalised in Utah
The Bureau of Land Management is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From David Smith at Hauser & Wirth to Katherine Bradford at Canada
Lummi artists create a totem pole to call attention to the need to protect sacred Indigenous sites
The totem pole will travel from Washington State to Washington, DC and make stops at significant Native American locations
Penn Museum apologises for allowing the use of human remains of Black Philadelphians in an online class
The statement follows a petition condemning the institution and calling for a public investigation
Creative Time launches Kickstarter campaign for Kamala Sankaram’s concrete opera about trees
The immersive soundscape features sounds from nature and is inspired by research into how trees communicate
Ancient petroglyphs damaged by climber in Utah
A man installed several bolts on and around petroglyphs he believed were "graffiti"
Pérez Art Museum Miami awards María Magdalena Campos-Pons its annual prize
The artist was a pioneer of the New Cuban Art Movement in the late 1980s
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Yayoi Kusama in the Bronx to Alex Da Corte's Big Bird on the Met Roof
Sam Durant to create drone sculpture for the High Line's next plinth commission
The work is the artist’s first public commission since a controversial installation at the Walker Art Center’s Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Penn Museum announces recommendations for repatriation of human skulls
The museum holds a collection of more than 1,000 remains amassed in the mid-19th century to uphold theories of racial superiority
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alice Neel at the Met to an ode to the first Black woman astronaut by Damien Davis
Hank Willis Thomas builds a memorial to victims of gun violence at the National Building Museum
The project was developed in collaboration with the Mass Design Group and gun violence prevention organisations
A flurry of Yayoi Kusama shows are about to open, but restrictions on her installations may limit their appeal—and visitor numbers
The Japanese artist's exhibitions usually draw millions of people, will they be the same in a post-pandemic world?
New Museum 2021 triennial will explore themes of impermanence
The show takes its title, Soft Water Hard Stone, after a Brazilian proverb about perseverance and the impact of incessant actions over time
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Alexander Calder’s early works at MoMA to Molly Greene’s psychedelic flowers at Kapp Kapp
After criticism, Harvard's Peabody Museum will revise its policies on repatriating Native American objects
The Association on American Indian Affairs issued an open letter accusing the institution of failing to fulfill its legal obligations
Mass Moca breathes new life into Taryn Simon's mourning sculptures
The Pipes were originally made for performances dealing with death and mourning but will now serve less specific purposes
An exhibition at Pioneer Works captures the 'perverse seduction' of nuclear weapons
The artist Smriti Keshari and the writer Eric Schlosser have adapted their acclaimed 2016 film into a blackbox format for the Brooklyn venue
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Ann Craven at Karma to Madeline Hollander at the Whitney
World's biggest Inuit art collection revealed at Winnipeg's new museum within a museum
Qaumajuq centre aims to reframe Winnipeg Art Gallery’s colonial past with displays of more than 10,000 rarely seen Inuit works
Allora and Calzadilla create a 'haven' from the horrors of the past year at the Menil Collection
New works informed by the Houston museum founders' literature collection delve into the spiritual and social discomforts of our current time
Following social media backlash, festival organisers cancel Santiago Sierra's Aboriginal blood-soaked flag work
Many Indigenous cultural leaders commented that the work perpetuated, rather than critiqued, the violence of colonialism
Park Avenue Armory postpones socially distanced programme after performers test positive for Covid-19
The recently announced season aimed to provide a safe space for live arts performances as Covid-19 cases begin to decline in New York
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Julie Mehretu’s mid-career survey at the Whitney to the Frick Collection’s temporary encampment in the Breuer building
Shahzia Sikander, creator of feminist miniatures, will have a major show at The Morgan in New York
The Pakistani-American artist is known for her works that reimagine illuminated manuscript traditions from South and Central Asia in a contemporary feminist context
San Diego will get an Institute of Contemporary Art in September
An exhibition devoted to the Mexican conceptual artist Gabriel Rico will inaugurate the institute
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From Niki de Saint Phalle’s first US retrospective at MoMA PS1 to El Museo Del Barrio’s sweeping survey of Latinx art
Amy Sherald, Kerry James Marshall, Theaster Gates, Nick Cave and others to show work reflecting on Breonna Taylor
The exhibition Promise, Witness, Remembrance opens at the Speed Art Museum in April